Green Bush Spring

On this spot in the early days was a flowing spring beside which stood a large green bush. Wild horses, deer, elk and antelope watered here and it served as a watering place for sheep and cattle.

The presence of this ...

Lunette Palmer

Civil War fortifications were precisely designed. Every angle, every mound of earth, and every slope you see here in Lunette Palmer had a specific purpose.

Lunette Palmer is a multi-sided, angled earthwork that projects outward from the basic profile of the ...

Camp Cleveland

Opened in July 1862, the 35 1/2-acre site here in Brooklyn Township's University Heights served as the largest Civil War army camp of rendezvous, organization, and training in northeast Ohio. It was bordered by Hershel (now West 5th) and University ...

Presbyterian Church

Organized under Louisville Presbytery, Synod of Kentucky, January 1819 by Rev. John Finley Crowe who later founded Hanover College. Early Church services were held in homes and in State Capitol prior to building first church 1826. Original church stood on ...

175th Anniversary of Greek Independence

55’ Flag Pole donated to the City of New York by the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York on behalf of the Greek American community, in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of Greek Independence, and the 100th Anniversary ...

First State Capital

Corydon became the first state capital of Indiana in 1816. The first constitution was drawn up and the first sessions of the state legislature and supreme court convened here.

Marker is on Ohio River Scenic Byway (State Highway 62) 0.3 miles ...

Inscription Rock

Between three and four hundred years ago, Ohio pre-historic Indians, believed to be of the Erie tribe, pecked numerous inscriptions or pictographs on the top surface of this large native limestone rock. The figures, now nearly obliterated by the elements, ...

Rabun Gap – Nacoochee School

Andrew Jackson Ritchie, 1868 – 1948, Founder

One of Rabun County’s first college graduates, Andrew Jackson Ritchie received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University before returning to his native county to devote his life to the education of the ...

Peter Caesar Alberti

First Italian settler

landed in N.Y. June 2, 1635

Through the efforts of

John N. LaCorte founder of

the Italian Historical Society

of America

June 2, has been proclaimed

“Alberti Day”

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Field Hospitals - Cavalry Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Cavalry Corps

The Hospitals of the First Division Cavalry Corps were located June 30th in this church and other nearby buildings and fell into the hands of the Confederates on the evening of July 1st. ...