Capt. Milton Wesley Damron

Milton Wesley Damron (1825-1887), an early settler and Salado public servant, was born in Tennessee and came to Texas as part of the Mercer Colony. He arrived in the 1840s and shortly afterwards married Sarah Pennington. When original settlement plans ...

Hickenlooper's Battery

5th Ohio Light Artillery - Prentiss' Division

U.S.

Hickenlooper's Battery,

5th Ohio Lt. Art., Prentiss' (6th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, with three guns, was in action here at 4.30 P.M. April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Hamburg-Savannah ...

Lincoln In Petersburg

Presidential Visit to Centre Hill

At noon on April 7, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his party left City Point for Petersburg in a special train on the newly repaired City Point Railroad, arriving in the city half an hour later. ...

Kewaunee Marsh Arsenic Spill Area

Why is the fence here?

The fence is to limit access to a contaminated area. In the early days the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) was contacted by a hunter that an area within the boundaries of the wildlife refuge ...

Sisson’s Peony Gardens

In 1920 Wilbur Sisson established the first section of his Peony Gardens at this location. In 1929 he hired Jesse Phillips as his assistant and eventual partner to design and build a gateway arch and windmill for the entrance. These ...

The Capitol Theater

In 1904, the Dover Opera House opened at this location. The theater was built with funds from a public subscription, and included a stage that was used for a variety of purposes including vaudeville, photoplays, magic lantern shows, and in ...

Still On Patrol

USS Amberjack Memorial

Still On Patrol

–– • ––

U.S. Navy Submarines

paid heavily for

their success in

World War II.

A total of

374 Officers and

3131 men are on

board these 52

U.S. Submarines

still on "patrol."

[Relief of Submarine ...

Hardyville Pioneer Cemetery

This cemetery remains as the last vestige of the pioneer settlement of Hardyville founded in 1864 by William R Hardy, the town served as an important ferry crossing, steamboat landing, shipping point for area mines and as the Mohave County ...

Commercial Steamship Transportation and Bullhead Community Park

Commercial steamship transportation on the Colorado River was of great importance from 1852 through 1877. It served the mining communities of Northern Arizona. Cargo was unloaded at Hardyville, 1 ½ miles south of this point, sometimes returning downstream with barge ...

111th Regiment Pennsylvania

Second Brigade - Second Division

111th Regiment Pennsylvania

Veteran Volunteer Infantry.

Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Walker, Commanding.

Cobham's 2nd Brigade. Geary's 2nd Division.

Slocum's 12th Corps.

The regiment occupied this position on the 25th day of November and in double column on centre, charged the summit, ...