Atlantic City Workers Monument

Dedicated to the men and women

of organized labor who lost their

lives while working on the

redevelopment of Atlantic City

We honor these workers

[List of 25 names follow]

"You will always be remembered"

Erected April 28, 1998 by the members of the Atlantic - Cape ...

Skirmish at Cow Creek

Near here, on August 27, 1836, Georgia Militia companies commanded by Col. Henry Blair, Captain Lindsay and Capt. Levi J. Knight, fought a skirmish with Creek Indians and routed them, killing two and taking several prisoners. During this summer the ...

Battle of Hunterstown

In the first three days of July 1863, 165,000 soldiers converged on Gettysburg, leaving their mark forever on its land, buildings, and people. Like sparks from a bonfire, fights strayed far outside the town. One encounter took place in Hunterstown. ...

Statehouse Foundations

The Virginia General Assembly is the oldest representative legislature in the Western Hemisphere. Meeting for the first time in July 1619, it gathered in the “most convenient place we could finde to sitt in … the Quire of the churche.” ...

These Foundations

1607

These foundations were

discovered & identified in 1903

by Samuel H. Yonge,

Designer of the sea-wall & author of

“The Site of “Olde Jamestowne,” 1607-1698.”

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Placed by the Association

for the Preservation of

Virginia Antiquities,

1907.

Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer's Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer’s Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

Norman Mattoon Thomas

Was born on this site Nov. 20, 1884. He graduated from Marion High School in 1901, Princeton University in 1905, and from Union Theological Seminary. Thomas, a clergyman, and the son of Marion's Presbyterian minister, was a tireless worker for ...

Headwaters Park

Architect Eric R. Kuhne was commissioned to design a flood control plan that would provide for a park and premier festival center. It could also serve as a model for flood control in other sections of the country. The Headwaters ...

St. Joseph Confederate Saltworks

A major Confederate saltworks, with daily capacity of 150 bushels, before completion, was located 200 feet north. Brick foundations were salvaged from ruins of the old City of St. Joseph. Salt processed by evaporation of seawater was one of Florida's ...