The Beartooth Plateau

The Beartooth Plateau contains some of the oldest exposed rocks on Earth and provides a unique window into the history of our planet. About 55 million years ago, this massive block of metamorphic basement rock pushed its way upward nearly ...

Site of Dayton's First Electric Generating Station

1883 - 1897

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Marker is at the intersection of Riverview Avenue and Interstate 75, on the right when traveling east on Riverview Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Seven Days' Battles

New Bridge

Leading up to and during the Seven Days' Battles from 25 June to 1 July 1862, bridges and roads played an important role in the movement of the Union and Confederate armies. New Bridge on the Chickahominy River was ...

Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic School

In 1899, eight years after the founding of Saints Cyril and Methodius Church, its Czech/Moravian parishioners established a school for their children. In 1901 the sisters of divine providence began their long affiliation of providing teachers for the school. Educational ...

George H. Carroll Lion Habitat

The lion habitat is named in honor of George H. Carroll (1926-1998), a long-standing friend and supporter of the University of North Alabama (UNA). Mr. Carroll was the loving husband of Virginia Sego Carroll and father of Steven, Judy, and ...

This monument, until 1983 located on the Belle Grove Lawn

200 yards to the west, identified the unmarked graves of

John Hipkins, died 1804; his wife Elisabeth Pratt 1754-1829; their only child Fanny Bernard 1774-1801; and her youngest children; Eliza 1794-1803 and William Bernard, Jr. 1796-1822; also five infant children of ...

Meroney’s Theatre

When Dr. L. J. Meroney and his sister Lena built the theater in 1905, its large seating capacity attracted professional troupes to Salisbury. Two of the most famous thespians of the day, the “Divine” Sarah Bernhardt and the glamorous Lillian ...

Battle Of Bethesda Church

Here stood Bethesda Church, founded about 1830 and used by Baptists and Disciples of Christ until it burned in 1868. In May 1864, during the Civil War, Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren's V Corps formed the left flank of Lt. ...

A Tradition of Remembering, A Legacy of Preservation

Eleven years after the battle of Rivers Bridge,

a group of local young men formed the Rivers

Bridge Confederate Memorial Association and

reburied the Confederate dead here, about a

mile from the battlefield. The Memorial

Association began to meet at the site ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

The left of Lee's line at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, crossed the road here. The main battle took place to the east, where Grant attacked Lee's trenches without success.

Marker is on Mechanicsville Turnpike (U.S. 360) 0.1 miles east of ...