Historic Landscape Restoration

In 1997 the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution began to develop a proposal at Manassas National Battlefield Park to mitigate the loss of wetlands resulting from the construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, a National Air and ...

1st New Hampshire Battery

On this ground

Edgell's 1st New Hampshire Battery

Light Artillery

fired three hundred and fifty-three

rounds of ammunition

July 2nd and 3rd, 1863

Erected by the State of New Hampshire

July 3rd. 1912

Marker can be reached from Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling ...

DeBary Hall / Florida Federation of Art, Inc.

(Front side)

DeBary HallBuilt in 1871 by Baron Frederick de Bary. Born 1815 in Germany of Belgian descent, de Bary came to New York in 1840 as agent for Mumm's Champagne. His estate of many hundred acres here in Florida was ...

Battle of Brice's Cross Roads

In Memory

of the Men of the

Confederate

and the

Federal Armies

who took part in the

Battle of

Brice's Cross Roads

or Tishimingo Creek

June 10, 1864

which resulted in

a victory for the

Confederate forces

under Brigadier

General N. B. Forrest

Marker is at the intersection of Bethany Road (Mississippi Route 370) and ...

Battle of Brices Cross Roads

June 10, 1864

When General Sherman advanced on Atlanta, General Forrest sought to destroy the Union supply line between Nashville and Chattanooga. He had nearly reached the Tennessee River when he had to turn back to meet a Union force marching ...

Battle of Natividad

Combined American forces under Captains Charles D. Burrass (or Burroughs) and Bluford K. Thompson clashed with Comandante Manuel de Jesús Castro's Californians in this vicinity on November 16, 1846. Casualties on each side consisted of several men killed and wounded. ...

Confederate Texas Legislatures

When Texas seceded, Feb. 1, 1861, the 8th Legislature was in Austin in a called session, adjourned Feb. 9.

On March 18, the 8th came back for a second called session; the 9th and 10th Legislatures in turn were harassed with ...

Water Carves Canyons

Flowing water is the reason you see a canyon in front of you. As the Rocky Mountains lifted, water was forced to flow to either the east or the west, creating creeks and rivers. Clear Creek has been eroding this ...

Recreation: Past to Present

Windy Saddle Park has a long history of being a favorite place for recreation. When Lookout Mountain Road was opened in 1914, it was a destination for the first automobile tours. The Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway now passes ...

Changewater Trestle

Railroad operated between Scranton and Hampton from 1856 until 1959 when bridge was razed by Delaware, Lackawanna And Western Railroad.

Marker is at the intersection of Musconetcong River Road and Port Colden-Changewater Road, on the left when traveling south on Musconetcong ...