Father Edouard Gerard

Founder First Catholic Church in Phoenix, 1881

The first priest ordained in Arizona, Father Edouard Gerard, attended the Catholic people of Phoenix from Florence, Arizona, where he was the pastor of the Church of the Assumption from 1877 to 1885. For ...

Confederate Dead

Here rest 34 Confederate soldiers, all of whom died in the Confederate hospitals located in Thomaston. These men came from seven of the Confederate states. Only six are “unknown” graves. Hospitals located here were the Newsom, Frank Ramsey and several ...

Danville (Illinois) National Cemetery

War Memorial

In memory of the men who offered their lives in defense of their Country.

Marker can be reached from Blue Star Highway south of Main Street (Route 136).

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South Carolina Troops at Battle of Averasboro, NC

On this field March 15-16 1865 men of South Carolina stood with men of other Southern States and fought bloodily and bravely for their beliefs and way of life. In doing so they wrote their names in imperishable letters in ...

Battle of Boykin's Mill

Gen. Edward E. Potter commanding 2700 white and Negro Union troops left Georgetown April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden. Here on April 18, in one of the last engagements of the war, a small force ...

Cheatham Road

Wyatt Cheatham (1769-1856) was one of the early settlers of Lawrence County and bought land near Wren in 1818. The Alabama Legislature on 14 Dec 1824 authorized him, "to open out and make a road leading from at or near ...

M-60A3 Main Battle Tank

M-60A3 Main Battle Tank

These tanks were used extensively

by the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S.

Army, in the Viet Nam and Gulf

Wars. Some of its characteristics are:

Weight Combat Loaded: 55 Tons

Main Gun: 105 Millimeter

Machine Guns: One 50 cal. ...

Battle Of Hobkirk Hill

Battle of Hobkirk Hill in the Revolutionary War took place on this ridge April 25, 1781. The British Army was commanded by General Lord Rawdon, the Continental Army by General Nathanael Greene.

Marker is on Lyttleton Street, on the right when ...

Battle of Hobkirk Hill

in the Revolutionary War took place on this ridge

April 25, 1781.

The British Amry was Commanded by General Lord Rawdon, the Continental Army by General Nathanael Greene.

Marker is on Broad Street (Route 521), on the right when traveling south.

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Museum of Modern Art of Latin America

The OAS collection of contemporary art of the Americas was initiated in 1957 by resolution of the Council of the Organization of American States. In 1976, as part of its program of activities honoring the bicentennial of the independence ...