Hardee’s Attack

July 20, 1864. At 3:30 P.M., 3 divisions of Hardee’s A.C., [CS] Bate’s, Walker’s, & Maney’s, moved to the attack of Newton’s 4th A.C. div. [US] posted on the ridge 200 yards north of Collier Road.

Bate, on the right of ...

Saint Mary’s Cathedral

In 1851, the Catholics of Austin wrote to the Most Rev. John M. Odin (1801-1871), first Bishop of Texas. “This city is improving rapidly and our intentions are to build a church…if we can get a clergyman to stay among ...

Stony Point Battlefield

In July 1779, American Light Infantry, under Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, launched a midnight assault, capturing a British Fort and its defenders.

N.Y.S. Organization Daughters of the American Revolution

Marker is at the intersection of N Liberty Drive (U.S. 9W) and Park ...

Battle of Port Royal

A decisive battle in the Civil War took

place here on Nov. 7, 1861, when 18

Union warships with about 55 supporting

craft led by Adm. S.E. DuPont bombarded

for 4½ hours the Confederate forces

in Fort Walker on this shore and Fort

Beauregard on the ...

Civil War Medicine / Montgomery's Confederate Hospitals

Side A

During the War Between the States medical knowledge was primitive. As a result, twice as many men died of disease than in battle from wounds. Early in the War, childhood diseases such as measles, mumps and chicken pox decimated ...

Confederates Rally

This field was a scene of confusion. Shells were exploding all around. Hot, tired, shot-up during the retreat from Matthews Hill, Confederate units had fallen out of line and were milling about. They felt they'd lost the battle and maybe ...

Tower Bridge: Gateway to the Capital

Identifying A Need

By the early 1930’s, Americans were moving away from trains and ships and turning to automobiles as their mode of transporation. As a result, traffic on roadways increased dramatically. In Sacramento, M Street (now Capital Mall), one of ...

Fox Tucson Theatre

The Fox Tucson Theatre, the country's only southwestern art deco movie palace, was designed by California architect Eugene Durfee. Construction began in 1929 for the Tower Theatre, the crown jewel of the Diamos Brothers Southern Arizona Movie Theatre chain. Fox ...

The Great Lighthouse

Home to progressive thinkers and welcoming to reformist speakers, the Wesleyan Chapel was known as the “Great Light House.”

In 1843, amidst emerging local and national controversy over freedom of speech, the role of women, temperance, and the morality of slavery, ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps of Fort Ancient

Side A: The Civilian Conservation Corps

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal government established the Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the CCC or triple C's under the direction of President ...