I Never Saw Anything Like Them Before

Looking over this parapet, you can still see some 1,400 feet of earthwork walls stretching out before you. In 1863 Fortress Rosecrans had more than 14,000 feet of walls surrounding a compound that covered 200 acres.

Lunette Thomas

This earthwork defense, the ...

Monk's Fishing House / Teach Iascaigh na Manach

Monk's Fishing House

Fish was a staple in the diet of the mediaeval monastery, and this small building, probably built in the 15th or 16th century, is believed to have been used by the monks of Cong to make the task ...

Geology of Minnesota

Lake Harriet Region

The continental glaciers spreading over Minnesota during the great ice ages brought vast quantities of rock material from the north to be dumped indiscriminately during the recession of the ice. Old river valleys were filled and belts of ...

73rd Ohio Infantry

August 30, 1862

5:00 p.m.

2nd Brigade (McLean), First Division (Schenk)

First Corps (Sigel), Army of Virginia, USA

73rd Ohio Infantry

Col. Orland Smith

"The enemy in our front, moving in concert with those on our flank, came out of the woods - their line masking ...

Surrender Field

Colonial National Historical Park

On the 17th, at about 10 o'clock, the British raised a white flag on their walls, beat a parley on their drums, and the firing ceased on all sides. Then the terms of surrender were agreed upon ...

Independent Order of Odd Fellows

Elk Grove

The first I.O.O.F. meeting was held on

May 2, 1878. The first Rebekah meeting

was held on May 2, 1888. On July 7, 1892

The original building burned and was

rebuilt with the I.O.O.F taking ownership.

A rededication of the hall was

held on March ...

End of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride

At this point,

on the Old Concord Road as it then was

ended the midnight ride of

Paul Revere

He had at about two o’clock on the morning of April 19, 1775, the night being clear and the moon in its third quarter, got ...

The Founding of Fairbanks

Captain E.T. Barnette, whose trading post on the Chena River became the city of Fairbanks, arrived here on the sternwheeler Lavelle Young with Captain Adams on August 26, 1901.

Felix Pedro and partners, mining for gold in the hills above town, ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church

The National Cathedral of African Methodism

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church was founded in the District of Columbia in 1838. It is the oldest A.M.E. church and the oldest continuously black-owned property in Washington, D.C. - the Nation's Capital. The ...

The First Presbyterian Church

[Lower Marker]:

The origin of this church is 1750 when St. Paul's Church was established under the jurisdiction of the Church of England. In 1804 Christ Church was incorporated at St. Pauls's as a Presbyterian congregation. Subsequently, the name was changed ...