Goode's Bridge

Here Anthony Wayne took station in July, 1781, to prevent the British from moving southward. Here, April 3, 1865, Longstreet's, Hill's and Gordon's corps of Lee's army, retreating from Petersburg toward Danville, crossed the river.

Marker is on Hull Street Road ...

McCausland's Brigade

Pillow's Division

C.S.A.

Brigadier General

Gideon J. Pillow's Division

Colonel John McCausland's Brigade36th Virginia, Lieut. Colonel L. Wilber Reid

50th Virginia, Major Charles E. Thorburn

20th Mississippi, Major William N. Brown

Proceeding from Cumberland City to Fort Donelson, the brigade arrived at daylight, February 13, 1862, and ...

Herbert M. Hinckley

(1897 - 1938)

Engineering innovator who designed this dome for 1936 Texas Centennial. Staked reputation on plan (which uses a unique way of connecting radial arches at peak) despite doubts of many experts. Also designed nearby tower, buildings in major cities, ...

Chabot Observatory

Founded 1883

This marker, dedicated June 21, 2008, celebrates Chabot Space & Science Center's 125 years of inspiring Bay Area star gazers and curious minds of all ages.

From 1883-1915, an observatory on this site housed Chabot's first telescope, "Leah," an 8-inch ...

Lamkin’s Battery

This mortar belonged to the battery cammanded by Captain J.N. Lamkin. On July 30, 1864, at the “Crater”, the battery helped check the Union advance until Mahone came up. Four mortars were captured near flat Creek in Lee’s Retreat, April ...

Daniel Blue

1811 - 1899

in whose house St. Andrews African Methodist Episcopal

Church the oldest African-American congregation on the Pacific

Coast was organized in 1850

and

other members of the Sacramento area African-American

community laid to rest on this site.

Built upon the foundation laid by the apostles ...

Grave of Gen. John R. Chambliss, Jr.

Brig. Gen. John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., C.S.A., is buried just west of here. Born in Hicksford (present-day Emporia) on 23 January 1833, Chambliss graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1853. During the Civil War, he commanded ...

New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Museum

Based on personal collection willed to the New Mexico School of Mines by C.T. Brown in 1928, this museum displays thousands of mineral specimens from around the world with special emphasis on minerals found in New Mexico. Highlights include smithsonite ...

Colonel Joseph Kershaw's Tomb

Joseph Kershaw (1727 - 1791) is buried in this family enclosure. He was a successful businessman, politician, district sheriff, and South Carolina Patriot militia colonel in the Revolutionary War. He helped mediate a peaceful settlement to the South Carolina Regulator ...

Cos Cob

1640 1990

Cos Cob

The name "Cos Cob Neck" was recorded in 1686. Six Cos Cob roads, including the present Orchard and Bible Streets, were laid out during 1689 northward from the Main Country Road (US 1) into "ye wilderness". A ...