Pollok Baptist Church

Founded as Warren Chapel Baptist Church in 1891, this congregation became known as Pollok Baptist Church in 1896. The first meeting place was shared by the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Land acquired in 1906 by the Baptists was the site ...

Wilkes-Barre Fort

Completed 1778, Inclosing the courthouse of the Connecticut county of Westmoreland. Surrendered with Forty Fort to the British in 1778.

Marker is on Public Square.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Pleasant Valley War a.k.a. The Graham-Tewsbury Fued

Circa 1882 - 1892

One of the West’s Longest and Bloodiest feuds took

place here and around Pleasant Valley. The Grahams and

the Tewksburys had been in the cattle business and it

seems probable that they first fell out over the division of cattle ...

Savoy Ballroom

SAVOY

Here once stood the legendary Savoy Ballroom a hothouse for the development of jazz in the Swing Era. Visually dazzling and spacious, the Savoy nightly featured the finest jazz bands in the nation, and its house bands included such ...

Curly Lambeau

Earl L. (Curly Lambeau

Curly Lambeau founded the Green Bay Packers in 1919 and was a driving force in the teams early years, including the 1921 decision to join what is now the NFL.

Marker can be reached from Lombardi Avenue, on ...

Robertson's Brigade

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Army of Northern Virginia

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Robertson's Brigade

4th. and 5th North Carolina Cavalry

July 1 The Brigade crossed the Potomac at Williamsport Md. and marched to Greencastle Pa.

July 2 Marched from Greencastle Pa. to ...

Battle of Rhode Island   1778

During the American Revolution the British strategy focused on controlling American ports and blockading the coast. Because of Newport’s significance as a deep-water port and as a center of trade, British forces landed in Newport in December of 1776 to ...

Beale Wagon Road

America’s Great Camel Experiment 1857-1858

In the summer of 1857 former Navy Lt. Edward F. Beale was chosen by the Buchanan Administration to develop a wagon road from Fort Defiance, New Mexico Territory (now Arizona) to the Colorado River along the ...

USS Iowa (BB-61)

On the morning of April 19, 1989, USS Iowa (BB-61) was underway north of Puerto Rico conducting routine training exercises when the #2 16" gun turret exploded, killing 47 men working within its steel-encased bulkheads.

"They were just men with dreams ...

Lieut. Wilson W. Brown

In Memory of

[Marker Front]:

In memory of Lieut. Wilson W. Brown, Medal of Honor winner, who is buried here. He joined the famous Andrews Raid to wreck Confederate supply lines. The raiders captured a locomotive, "The General," at Big Shanty, Georgia, ...