Battle of Asheville

On April 3, 1865, Union Col.

Isaac M. Kirby left East Tenn.

with 1100 men on a raid against

Asheville. On April 6, Kirby's

force was defeated by local

militia under Col. G. W. Clayton.

Earthworks remain 100 yds. N.

Marker ...

Yolo County Courthouse

This property

has been listed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from Court Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Trackside Buildings

This 1870s view of Horseshoe Curve looks north past the rubble-strewn trackside area where you are standing, to show a coal hopper and a track along the hillside. These are evidence of coal mining activity along Kittanning Run. The shanty ...

Washington Afro-American Newspaper Office Building

1800 11th Street, NW

The independent weekly Afro-American, one of the most enduring Black newspapers in the country was founded in Baltimore in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr. The Washington Afro-American began publication in 1932, and operated from this ...

George Cleeves Memorial

In honor of

George Cleeves

Founder of Portland

1633

Deputy President

of the

Province of Lygonia

1645 - 1659

There landed with

George Cleeves,

his wife Joan,

and daughter

Elizabeth,

his partner

Richard Tucker,

and his wife

Margaret

Erected

July 4th, 1883

[Base sides read] Machigonne, Casco, Falmouth and Portland

Marker is at the intersection of Eastern Promenade and Congress ...

Bunker Hill Burying Ground

Established in 1810, this is Charlestown's second oldest burying ground, and the site of the left wing of Colonial forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. A monument marks the location of the Rail Fence and Stone Wall ...

Welcome to Thomaston, Maine, the Town That Went to Sea

The Museum in the Streets

Thomaston is known for its historic white houses. Both Main and Knox Streets are on the National Historic Register. Of the slightly more than 700 homes in town, approximately eighty-five percent are more than one hundred ...

The Line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection

The line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection formed after the British Troops landed on the seventeenth of June extended in this direction to Mystic River

Marker is on Bunker Hill St just west of Polk St, on the right when ...

The Builders, the Captains and the Seamen of Thomaston Ships

This flagpole was erected

as a memorial to the

Builders, the Captains and

the Seamen of

Thomaston Ships

by those who take pride

in their accomplishments

Dedicated July 4, 1950

Marker is at the intersection of Knox Street and Main Street (U.S. 1), in the median on Knox ...

Charlestown Heights

Designed in 1891 by the firm of America's foremost park planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, this playground is one of the best surviving examples of the neighborhood parks in Boston's original system. Olmsted divided the park into three ...