Confederate Countermine

Suspecting a Union mine, the Confederates dug two listening galleries here. They narrowly missed striking the Union tunnel, which was deeper. The depressions you see were caused by the cave-in of these galleries.

Marker can be reached from Siege Road 0.4 ...

Crater of Mine

Excavated by

The 48th Regt. Penn. Vet. Vol. Inf.

Burnside's 9th Corps,

July 30, 1864.

Marker can be reached from Siege Road 0.4 miles east of South Crater Road (U.S. 460).

Courtesy hmdb.org

National Famine Memorial

Cuimhneachán Náisiúnta ar an nGorta Mór

To honour the memory of all who died, suffered and

emigrated due to the Great Famine of 1845 - 1850,

and the victims of all famines.

The Memorial was unveiled by the President of Ireland,

Mary Robinson, on 20 ...

Battle at Stones River

December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's ...

Declaration Chamber

Here the Continental Congress sat from the date it convened, May 10, 1775, until the close of the Revolution except when in 1776-7 it sat in Baltimore and in 1777-9 in Lancaster and York, due to the temporary occupation of ...

Battle of Brownstown

In this vicinity on Aug. 5, 1812, six weeks after the outbreak of war, an Indian force, led by the famous Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, ambushed about 200 Americans under Major Thomas Van Horne who were on the way south to ...

Memorial to the Soldiers and Patriots of the Revolution

This tablet is erected by the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution as a memorial to the soldiers and patriots of the Revolution who suffered in this building as prisoners of war during the occupation of Philadelphia by the British Army, 1777 - 1778. and also to commemorate the ...

The Gathering Storm

Atop this knoll Confederate General D. H. Hill had an unobstructed view to the crest of Malvern Hill. In the distance stood the West farm house and fields where Union batteries waited to dispute any Southern advance. By early afternoon ...

A Battlefield Landmark

The Thomas J. West house stood as a prominent part of the battlefield scene—a goal for attacking Confederates and a landmark along the Union line. Most of the fresh Federal troops marching to the front on July 1 moved past ...

Georgia Experiment Station

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The Georgia Experiment Station, one of the first State Agricultural Experiment Stations established in this country, was located in Spalding County, Georgia in 1888. The primary objective of its work program is to develop information which will aid in improving ...