Manila Metropolitan Theater

In Tagalog:

Nagsimula bilang isang pambansang tanghalan ayon sa disenyo ni arkitekto Juan Arellano. Pinasinayaan noong 1931. Naging tanghalan ng mga artistanf Pilipino at banyaga. Nagpalabas ng mga opera, pageant, at dulang Kastila at Ingles na isinalin sa Tagalog para ...

Patrick M. Gass

1771 - 1870

The grave of Patrick M.

Gass, a sergeant on the

Lewis and Clark Expedition

and a soldier of the War

of 1812 is located in this

cemetery. His wife Maria

is buried beside him.

Placed by the Lewis and Clark Trail

Heritage Foundation, assisted by the

National ...

Weather Reporting Station

This structure once housed the Anderson County Airport's Weather Reporting Station. Located across the street where the Civic Center is now and constructed in 1931 at a cost between $5500 and $6000, this building was designed to provide shelter for ...

Battery 5 of the Dimmock Line

In 1862 – two years before the first Federals appeared at the city’s gates – Confederate Captain Charles Dimmock oversaw the construction of a ten-mile line of defensive works ringing Petersburg. In front of you is Battery 5 one of ...

“A Determination That Knew No Such Word as Fail”

The Breakthrough Trail

As the Vermonters pushed closer to the Confederate fortifications, they encountered the multiple rows of obstructions specifically designed to pin down an attacking force. Here, the Confederates extracted a terrible toll on the desperate Federals, who struggled to ...

Dictator

Sept. 1864: “…the enemy frequently shoot very large shells into Petersburg & do some damage to buildings, but the people are getting used to it, so they don’t mind them….”

- A.I.P. Varin 2nd Mississippi

Famous but militarily ineffective, the “Dictator” fired ...

Buford's Bloody Battleground

Col. Buford's 11th Virginia Regiment and a detachment of Washington's Cavalry, retreating after the fall of Charles Town, were attacked by Col. Tarelton, May 29, 1780, at the site of the monument 955 feet southwest. The American loss was 113 ...

Tower Hill State Park

Dedicated to the memory of

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

This area of 60 acres has been used since Civil War days by the people of Iowa, Richland and Sauk Counties as a picnic ground and a common meeting place. It is fitting ...

Sunset Hills Station

Sunset Hills Station, shown below in the 1960s, stands as a reminder that today's Reston was not the first "new town" to be planned for this area. In 1886 Dr. Carl Wiehle bought a large parcel of land north and ...

Kateri Tekakwitha

1656–1680

First Indian of North America to be promoted a saint.

Marker is at the intersection of Cathedral Place and East San Francisco Street, on the right when traveling north on Cathedral Place.

Courtesy hmdb.org