Confederate Gun Shop

When the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee grew short of arms in 1863, Governor Shorter of Alabama and President Jefferson Davis persuaded Major O. O. Nelson of Tuscumbia, Alabama, to organize a company to erect a Gun Shop. ...

Confederate Cemetery

3,000 Confederate dead from every southern state are buried in this cemetery. First established for [CS] soldiers killed in a railroad collision in 1863, it became the resting place for dead from nearby battlefields. In 1866, under the direction of ...

At Jamestown Began:

1607 – 1957

At Jamestown began:

the

Expansion overseas of the

English speaking peoples;

the

Commonwealth of Virginia;

the

United States of America;

the

British Commonwealth

of Nations

Marker can be reached from Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 31), on the left when traveling south.

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Confederate Artillery

Artillery was an effective weapon, particularly when used in defensive combat. Nowhere was that demonstrated more clearly than here on Marye's Heights, where nine guns of the Washington Artillery shattered the ranks of the oncoming Union army. "The shells fell ...

Confederates on the Ridge

"What chance had flesh and blood to carry by storm such a position, garrisoned too as it was with veteran soldiers? Not one chance in a million."

Alexander Hunter,

17th Virginia Infantry.

At noon, December 13, 1862, the first of nine Union divisions ...

Jail Flats

Because of the often soggy conditions that discouraged use as either residential or commercial property, the area of Headwaters Park became known as the Jail Flats. The first jail in Allen County was a two-story hewn-log structure that was enclosed ...

First State Bank of Girard

First Brick Bldg.

in Crawford Co.

Erected by Franklin Playter

1870

Owned by

state's first woman banker

Sarah A. Haldeman

1905 - 1915

First home of

Mr. and Mrs. E Haldeman-Julius

1915 - 1918

Marker is on Prairie Street near Summit Street (Kansas Route 7), on the right when traveling east. ...

Raritan Water Power Canal

1840

The potential of the Raritan River to provide waterpower for industry was recognized early. In 1840, the success of similar projects along the Passaic and Delaware Rivers prompted the Somerville Water Power Company to begin building a power canal along ...

Memorial to the Naraticong Indians

Whose friendship for the Whites, made possible the building of the Olde York Road over their trail which from 1765 until 1839 was the swift sure stage line between New York and Philadelphia from this point to Lambertville thence to ...

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church

Built in 1862 by the people of Mariposa under the direction of Father Auger the church was dedicated and the first mass was said on January 18, 1863 by Archbishop Alemany

Marker is on First Street near Bullion Street.

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