Building a Fortress

U.S. army officer, Joseph G. Totten superintended the construction of Fort Adams beginning in 1825. He oversaw all details of construction until 1838, when he was appointed as the first Chief Engineer of the newly created Army Corps of Engineers.

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14th Ohio Battery

Burial Place

Burial Place

14th Ohio Battery

4 Bodies Removed

to

Nat'l Cemetery.

Marker is on Corinth Road 0.1 miles east of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling east.

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Schwartz & Raas and San Angelo National Bank Building

These three Victorian commercial structures were built during the local economic boom of the 1880s. Among the earliest permanent buildings in San Angelo, they represent the early development of the city as the leading commercial center of the area. In ...

Alester G. Furman, Jr. Administration Building

Erected 1957

Named in Honor of

Alester Garden Furman, Jr.

Humanitarian, Master Planner, Friend of Youth, Champion of Education, Guiding Light in Building the New South.

This administration building is named to honor Mr. Furman in grateful recognition of his enduring support of Furman ...

Camden Battlefield

Camden Battlefield has been designated a National Historic Landmark This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America

1961

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Flat Rock Road (South Carolina Route 58), ...

The International Society of Arboriculture and the National Arbo

Jointly recognize this significant tree in the bicentennial year as having lived here during the American Revolutionary Period.

1776-1976

Marker can be reached from Cuylerville Road (New York Route 20A) ¼ mile west of Barrett Road.

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Battle of Five Forks

Four miles south is the battlefield of Five Forks. To that point Pickett retired from Dinwiddie Courthouse in the night of March 31, 1865. Sheridan, following, attacked him in the afternoon of April 1, 1865. The Confederates, outnumbered and surrounded, ...

Boaz Mastodon

In 1897, after a severe rainstorm in Richland County, farm boys Chris, Harry, Clyde and Verne Dosch found large bones sticking out of an eroded bank on a tributary of Mill Creek near Boaz. The bones were later identified as ...

The Cos Cob Art Colony

The Cos Cob Art Colony

During the early 1890s American impressionist artists John H. Twachtman and J. Alden Weir began teaching summer art classes here in Cos Cob to students of New York's Art Students League. Edward and Josephine Holley ran ...

Burrow's Battery

McClernand's Division

(front)

Ohio

14th Battery Light Artillery,

Commanded by

Capt. Jerome B. Burrows, (Wounded)

McClernand's (1st) Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

(back)

This battery of 6 guns went into action here at 9 a.m.,

April 6, 1862. Its loss was 4 men killed; 1 officer and 25 men wounded; ...