Moorefield Presbyterian Church

Confederate Sanctuary

When the Civil War began, the Greek Revival-style Moorefield Presbyterian Church consisted of the main sanctuary that fronts on Main Street and the small chapel behind it. The chapel was constructed about 1847, and the sanctuary was completed in ...

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

September 27, 1864

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.Prior to the Confederate attack on Ft. Davidson a detachment of 3rd M.S.M. Cavalry was forced off Pilot Knob Mountain by Slemons' and McCray's Rebel Brigades. The ...

Blockade-Running

Steam-powered blockade-runners, usually British, made 1,300 attempts to enter Southern ports with vital supplies during the Civil War. More than 1,000 of the trips succeeded.

The most successful vessels were specially built for the trade—stealthy, steam-powered, shallow-draft, low-profile, camouflaged gray phantoms.

Yet ...

Abraham Lincoln Walked Here

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Tonight, beautiful women, perfume, and the violins’ sweetness ... [yet during the war] the amputation, the blue face, the groan, the glassy eye of the dying.” Walt Whitman

At 10:30 p.m. on March 4, 1865, ...

The Battle of Pilot Knob

September 27, 1864

In September of 1864 Major General Sterling Price and a 12,000 man army re-entered Missouri in a forlorn effort to regain the state for the Confederacy. On September 27th they laid siege to Fort Davidson. The defenders, though ...

Block 16

The notorious Block 16, North First Street between Ogden and Stewart Avenues, was the only area in the Las Vegas Townsite, outside of hotels, where liquor could be sold, starting in 1905. The block quickly changed from its original liquor ...

Binns Hall

Charles City County, Virginia

This community was named for the structure which housed the post office and dance hall, built in 1886 by O.P. Binns at the terminus of an old road that led to the Chickahominy River farms Cedar Forest, ...

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

Battle of Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob Mountain

September 27, 1864

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.Prior to the Confederate attack on Ft. Davidson a detachment of 3rd M.S.M. Cavalry was forced off Pilot Knob Mountain by Slemons' and McCray's Rebel Brigades. The ...

The De Kalb Monument

(Front Face):

To De Kalb

Here lie the remains of Baron De Kalb, German by birth, but in principle, citizen of the world.

(Left Face):

He was second in command in the battle fought near Camden, on the 16th August, 1780, between the British ...

Kilbourntown House

Built about 1844 by Benjamin Church, a pioneer carpenter and builder, in the Kilbourntown section of early Milwaukee. With its clean lines and fluted Doric columns, the house is an excellent example of Greek Revival architecture. Its construction featured the ...