The Confederate Statue

The unarmed Confederate soldier standing in the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets marks the location where units from Alexandria left to join the Confederate Army on May 24, 1861. The soldier is facing the battlefields to the South where ...

Site of First Synagogue of Beth El Hebrew Congregation

On this site stood Beth El Hebrew Congregation’s synagogue, the first structure built as Jewish house of worship in the Washington metropolitan area. Founded in 1859, Beth El, the first reform Jewish congregation in the Washington area, is northern Virginia’s ...

William B. and Athlyn C. Pritchett

owned and operated the Pritchett Insurance and Real Estate Agency in Pittsburg, Ks. for more than 50 years.

This park is one of the results of a trust they established with a mission to improve the quality of life in Pittsburg ...

Saratoga 1777

The Great Ravine

Here the battle raged

back and forth on

Sept. 19 and Oct. 7.

Here Major Acland

was wounded

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The gift of

Mrs Estelle Willoughby

Marker is on Park Tour Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The State of Georgia Salutes

[Upper right corner is the Prisoner of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA) emblem]

• The 77,000 Georgians who served in World War I;

the 1,937 KIA; 3,319 WIA; 67 Ex-POWs and 54 MIA

• The 324,373 Georgians who served in World War ...

The Battle of Perryville

The Battle of Perryville was fought on October 8, 1862. It was the climax of a campaign that lasted almost two months and affected the entire state of Kentucky. The campaign started when Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army entered Kentucky ...

Stephen Tyng Mather

July 4, 1867 - Jan. 22, 1930

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved, unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to ...

The Ultimate Sacrifice

The losses sustained by both armies during the Wilderness to Cold Harbor campaign made the world shudder. Casualties by some estimates averaged 2,000 per day, and at Cold Harbor nearly 18,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured.

While Confederate dead were ...

Sacramento Valley National Cemetery

Dedicated to the memory of

all the patriotic men and women

who answered their country’s call to service.

George W. Bush

President of the Untied States

R. James Nicholson

Secretary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

William F. Tuerk

Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs

National Cemetery Administration

[Second Plaque:]

From The Bivouac of ...

The Cathedral Group

Viewed from this perspective, Teewinot Mountain, the Grand Teton, and Mount Owen comprise the Cathedral Group."These peaks have been called the Cathedral Group...more evident here than in many of the great cathedrals of men is the Gothic note. It is ...