Chouteau’s Church (St. Francis Regis)

Saint Francois Regis-“L’Eglise Des Chouteau”

front of marker in English

The presence of the Catholic Church was established at an early date in the Kansas City area. Sacerdotal artifacts were among the earliest booty captured by the Comanches in the ...

Siege of Suffolk

Across the road here ran the main line of Confederate works, built by Longstreet besieging Suffolk, April, 1863. He abandoned the siege and rejoined Lee at Fredericksburg.

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (U.S. 460) and Godwin Boulevard, ...

These Trees Planted in Memory of the Firefighters Who Died in th

These Trees Planted in Memory of the Firefighters Who Died in the Dude Fire June 26, 1990

Sandra J. Bachman • Joseph Chacon • Alex S. Contreras • James L. Denny • James E. Ellis • Curtis E. Springfield

Marker is on ...

The TVA System of Multi-purpose Dams

Wheeler Dam

The Tennessee River has its headwaters in the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. The main stream forms at Knoxville, where the Houston and the French Broad Rivers join.

The valley, 41,000 square miles in area, receives an ...

Battle of Culloden

On April 19, 1865, a part of Wilson`s Federal Raiders, moving toward Macon, encountered the "Worrill Grays" near this spot. The "Grays," numbering less than 200 men, fought a magnificent battle, greatly outnumbered. After a two-hour battle they finally yielded ...

Siege of Suffolk

The town was occupied by Union Troops from May, 1862, until the end of the Civil War. Confederate forces under Longstreet unsuccessfully besieged Suffolk, from April 11, to May 3, 1863, when they withdrew across the James on Lee's orders.

Marker ...

Whitfield Canal

Drainage canal constructed between 1845

and 1863 by slaves of General Nathan Bryan

Whitfield, builder of Gaineswood, to prevent

water from overflowing and flooding his

plantation. The water from 2,070 acres south

and east of Gaineswood originally followed

a 17 mile course to reach the Tombigbee

River. ...

The Dude Fire

On June 25, 1990 a lightning caused fire entrapped ten members of the Perryville fire crew in this canyon. Resulting in six fatalities. Before the fire was contained it had burned more than 24,000 acres and destroyed over 70 structures.

This ...

Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery F Fifth U.S. Artillery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Lieut. Leonard Martin Commanding

July 2 Arrived on the afternoon with the Corps and held in reserve.

July 3 Brought up to Ziegler's Grove in rear ...

Flomaton, Alabama

Front

As railroads were reconstructed following the Civil War, a junction of north-south and east-west lines was established along the Alabama-Florida border near the confluence of Big Escambia Creek and the Conecuh-Escambia River. A settlement followed which became knows as Reuterville, ...