Blackwater Presbyterian Church

In The 17th century, the colony of Maryland was founded as a refuge for Catholics and members of other religious faiths then subject to persecution. Many of the early settlers of this region, then a part of Maryland, were Presbyterians ...

Delta Transmission Towers/Delta Cross Channel Gates

Delta Transmission Towers

The Delta area is home to four separate transmission towers which provide reception for television and radio stations serving the residents of Northern California. Three of the towers rival some of the tallest structures in the world. The ...

Phillips 66 Petroleum Company Gas Station

Built in 1930 by the Independent Oil

and Gas Company, this Tudor

Revival style gas station was

purchased by Phillips 66 Petroleum

Company the same year. The

original "house" style brick building

was modified in the 1940s to the

L-shaped plan seen today. Gas was

sold and vehicles ...

Confederate Civil War Monument

[Marlboro County]

[Inscriptions: South face]

1861

UDC

303

of Marlboro’s noble sons sacrificed

their lives on the battlefield, in

prison, and by disease.

“God’s peace is everlasting”

are the dream-words of their sleep.

Erected A.D. 1907

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No country ever had truer sons ;

No cause - ...

Confederate Veterans

In honor of each Confederate Veteran, known and unknown, buried in East Volusia County

Jasper J. Allman • Jesse Bennett • Simmons Bennett • Z. H. Bennett • Jackson D. Brooke • Rufus D. Brooke • Wm. W. Carter • ...

Engagement at Malvern Cliffs

On 30 June 1862, as Gen. Robert E. Lee concentrated his troops to attack Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's retreating Union army at Glendale, Maj. Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes brigade of Confederate troops moved down New Market Road on Lee's ...

The Birth of Aviation

In 1899, Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton built a kite to test a revolutionary flight control system, and in 1900, built their first airplane (glider). With promising results, the Wrights built man-carrying gliders and airplanes to refine their ideas. ...

Liberty County Confederate Monument

1861-1865

War Between The States

"Lord God of hosts

defend us yet

Lest we forget.

lest we forget."

Marker is on Court Street near South Commerce Street, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nathaniel Bacon

Bacon was born in 1647 in Suffolk, England, and was educated at Cambridge University. He came to Virginia in 1673 and settled near here on the north bank of the James River at Curles Neck. In 1676 Bacon led a ...

Immaculate Conception Catholic School

Immaculate Conception

Catholic School

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

September 23, 2003

First school built in 1864

Present school built in 1908

B. Stanley Simmons, architect.