28th St Draw Bridge / Great Shiplock Canal

"The Tidewater Connection"

28th St Draw Bridge

The lift bridge before you was built by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in 1929 to serve the paper mills along the Pamunkey River at West Point.

A moveable bridge was always necessary to allow ships ...

Wickersham Cabin

This is the site of the original cabin of James J. Wickersham. He was an author, pioneer judge, congressional delegate and Alaska Visionary.

Alaska Centennial 1867-1967

State of Alaska

Governor Walter J. Hickel

Alaska Centennial Commission

Marker is at the intersection of 1st Avenue and ...

Where do we bury our dead? Lincoln Cemetery

The first half-acre of this cemetery was purchased in 1867 by a society of Black men calling themselves the “Sons of Goodwill,” and for many years this place was called the “Goodwill Cemetery.” The minutes of the Sons of Goodwill ...

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, ...

Barnette's Landing

Captain E.T. Barnette, a passenger on the riverboat Lavelle Young, debarked near this site on August 26, 1901, and established a trading post which in 1902 became known as Fairbanks.

Alaska Centennial 1867-1967

State of Alaska

Governor Walter J. Hickel

Alaska Centennial Commission

Marker is ...

Srahwee or Altóir Megalithic Wedge Tomb

Clew Bay Archaeological Trail site 13

Sraith Bhuí – The Yellow River Land

This is one of the finest megalithic tombs in Ireland. This particular example is a wedge tomb, so-called because of its shape, wider and higher at the entrance and ...

Troop Barracks

This structure was the first of

three barracks built between 1893 -

1897. Each housed one infantry battalion

of 320 men. This barracks was first

occupied in June 1894 by companies D, F

and G of the 21st Infantry Regiment

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 ...

The Nebraska State Historical Society

In 1878 public-spirited citizens, led by former governor Robert W. Furnas, organized the Nebraska State Historical Society. The legislature designated the Society a state institution in 1883 and began providing financial support.The Society's offices, library, and museum occupied various Lincoln ...

Kemper's Brigade

August 30, 1862

5:15 p.m.

Kemper's Division, Right Wing (Longstreet)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

Kemper's Brigade

Col. Montgomery D. Corse

1st Virginia - 11th Virginia

7th Virginia - 17th Virginia

24th Virginia

"We neared the Chinn House, when suddenly ...