Confederate Memorial Chapel

The chapel was erected in 1887 in memory of the more than 260,000 Confederate war dead and as a place of worship for the veterans who resided here in the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home. The veterans themselves, ...

Site of J. E. B. Stuart's Death

Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart, C.S.A., Commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, died here on May 12, 1864, in the home of his brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Brewer. Cause of his death was a wound received ...

E.C. Mathews Home

Built by "Daddy Poe," in 1856. Has columns made of hollowed pine trees; swinging upstairs porch.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1966

Marker is on Loop State Highway 177, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Storehouse Burned By Federal Troops

April 20, 1865

On this site stood the stone warehouse of Captain Thomas Truss and Marcus Worthington. Stored here were meats, grains and clothing collected by the Confederate government as a war tax. Disabled C.S.A. veteran Felix M. Wood was receiver ...

Bryan's Station

Camping place in 1775-76 of the brothers Morgan, James, William and Joseph Bryan. In 1779 was fortified as a station which in Aug. 1782 repelled a siege of Indians and Canadians under Capt. William Caldwell and Simon Girty.

Marker is on ...

Post-Appomattox Tragedy

On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended.

Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz,

and two other armed veterans of Co. D,

7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal

cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.

The horses were returned the next day to ...

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church

On July 9, 1793, at 3:00 P.M. there arrived in the port of Baltimore at Fells Point a ship, The Guineaman, carrying blacks, slave and free, from Santo Domingo. They were French speaking and Catholic. They formed a Eucharistic community ...

Great Neck

When Richard Brewster, gentleman, patented some 500 acres in this area on February 6, 1637 it was described as "the great Neck alias the barren neck". Cleared land then, the forest has since grown back.

Marker can be reached from Colonial ...

Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery Gate

This Gate Is the Gift

of

Columbia University

In the City of New York

In Grateful Memory

of

Samuel Johnson

the

First President of King’s College

In the Province of New York

1754 – 1763 A.D.

And of His Son

William Samuel Johnson

the

First President of Columbia College

In the City of New ...

Naval Weapons Station

The piers extending into the York River, just to the right, serve a major Navy installation. Since its establishment in 1918, then as a Mine Depot, it has served our country in two World Wars and the Korean conflict as ...