Flambeau Trail – Gateway to the Flambeau Trail

Iron County Heritage Area

The most popular gateway to the Flambeau Trail started here, on the shore of Oronto Bay. Also known as the “Montreal River Trail”, it was the only route inland into the dense virgin forest until the late ...

Confederates Trapped

Appomattox Court House Nat’l Hist Park

For most of the war, Lee and his army had tormented their Northern enemies – at Gaines’ Mill, Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville. But here, on April 9, 1865, the once-mighty Army of Northern Virginia found itself ...

Council Grove National Bank Building

1887

The Council Grove National Bank began August 23, 1878, as the Morris County State Bank of Kansas. It became a national bank in 1900.

An 1886 fire destroyed the bank, then located between the Hays House and this building. Constructed in ...

Restoration of Georgetown’s Call Boxes

Georgetown’s Call Box restoration project is part of a city-wide effort to rescue the District’s abandoned fire and police call boxes. Known as Art on Call, the project has identified more that 800 boxes for restoration. Neighborhood by neighborhood, ...

A Strategic Delay

Appomattox Court House Nat’l Hist Park

As Lee’s Confederate Army retreated west, Federal forces blocked their way. Near this spot, Union artillery pieces commanded by Lieutenant James H. Lord and a cavalry brigade led by Brevet Brigadier General Charles Smith proved ...

Replicas gates for Northington General Hospital

These gates are replicas of the gates for Northington General Hospital, a U.S. Army Hospital that operated on this site during World War II. From 1947 to 1952, Northington General Hospital was the temporary home of DCH Regional Medical Center ...

Chocolate Workers' Sit-Down Strike

Hershey's Chocolate Workers Local 1 (CIO) responded to a labor-management impasse on April 2, 1937 by initiating the first sit-down strike in Pennsylvania and in the confectionery industry. The strike was ended by strike-breaking violence and government mediation. The union ...

The "Three Fates"

This fountain, erected in 1956, is situated near the Leeson Street entrance to the park. It consists of a group of three bronze figures – Nornenbrunnen, representing the Three Fates, who weave and measure the thread of man's destiny.

The monument ...

Fort Selden State Monument

1865-1891

Fort Selden was established to protect settlers and railroad construction crews in the Mesilla Valley and the Jornada del Muerto from Apaches. The first regular army troops to garrison it were four companies of the black 125th Infantry. General Douglas ...

Battery E, Fourth U.S. Artillery

First Brigade Horse Artillery - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

First Brigade Horse Artillery

Battery E Fourth U.S. Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

Lieut. Samuel S. Elder commanding

July 3 Arrived on the field and took position on a hill southwest of Round Top ...