Head Gates and Inner Basin

These brick-lined archways, or "head gates," built around 1850, once controlled much of the island's waterpower. From here, a "wing dam" extended across the Shenandoah River, funneling water through the arches and into the inner basin. A gate at the ...

Cedar Lake Yacht Club

Town of West Bend, Wisconsin

The Cedar Lake Yacht Club was founded in 1899 and is situated on Big Cedar Lake, the largest lake in Washington County. Although there have been many renovations and additions, the original field stone structure still ...

Dr. Benjamin F. Pendery

BORN August 11, 1846

DIED April 26, 1905

This monument is dedicated to

Dr. Pendery, his family, and all the

men and women of medicine who were

moved here from the New Helvetia

Cemetery in 1955 – 1956.

Erected June 12, 1999 by the

Sacramento-El Dorado Medical ...

First Baptist Church of Salado

A Baptist revival was held on the banks of Salado Creek as early as 1854. By about 1860, members of area Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Church of Christ denominations were meeting in an ecumenical house of worship. Each group held ...

Johnson's Brigade

Cheatham's Division - Polk's Corps

C.S.

Johnson's (1st) Brigade,

Walker's 2d Tenn., 15th Tenn., Blythe's Miss., 154th Tenn., One Gun of Polk's Tenn. Battery,

Cheatham's (2d) Div., Polk's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This brigade, reduced to less than 1000 ...

Fort Trumbull

This five-sided fort was built between 1839 and 1852 to protect New London Harbor as part of a broad system of coastal fortification undertaken by the federal government. This is the third Fort Trumbull built on this promontory, which was ...

Bishop William McKendree

William McKendree was born in King William County in 1757. He soon moved with his family to present-day Greensville County, and later served in the Revolutionary War. In 1786, the county licensed him to keep a tavern at his house ...

Main Street Bridges

A number of bridges have been built over Salado Creek on Main Street since 1870. After the town of Salado was laid out in 1859, citizens crossed the creek using various combinations of rocks and logs. When local citizens and ...

Freemason Street Baptist Church

In May 1848 former members of the Cumberland Street Baptist Church organized to become the Freemason Street Baptist Church. A new church building was begun that year and completed and dedicated in May 1850.

The Reverend Tiberius Gracchus Jones, a ...

James Buchanan Duke Library

Erected 1956 Renovated 2004

In Memory of

James Buchanan Duke

1856-1925

Philanthropist, Master Builder, Creator of the Duke Endowment, and Benefactor of Humankind

This library is named in honor of Mr. Duke in grateful recognition of his generous support of Furman University.

"Education, When Conducted Along ...