Palace Grand Theatre/Le théâtre Grand Palace

[English:]

“Arizona” Charlie Meadows, showman and self-made heroic figure built a lavish structure in 1899 to prospect gold directly from the miner’s pokes. Hugely successful over its first winter, the theatre offered vaudeville acts, comedy, music and melodrama – all on ...

West College: A National Historic Landmark

Walking Tour Stop 16

West College – known affectionately as Old West – traces its roots to February 1803, when the college’s main building burned to the ground after four years of costly construction. In a bind, the college trustees appealed ...

Great Bridge Marshall Memorial

Fauquier County, Virginia

Officers of the Culpeper Minute Battalion

At the Battle of Great Bridge

Major Thomas Marshall (1730-1802)

Member, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Virginia Conventions

Colonel, 3rd Virginia Regiment

Colonel, Virginia Sate Artillery Regiment

Member, Virginia General Assembly

And his son

Lieutenant John Marshall (1755-1835)

Captain, 11th Virginia ...

Stevens' Battery

Stevens'

Battery,

5th

Maine.

July 1, 1863.

Marker is on Seminary Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Texas Statesman William Pettus Hobby

(1878-1964)

Businessman and politician William Pettus Hobby was born near this Moscow site, the son of Eudora Adeline (Pettus)and Edwin E. Hobby, a state senator and judge. At age 17, William joined the staff of the Houston Post and rose to ...

At Dawn on December 9, 1775

In late October 1775, the Virginia Committee of Safety ordered Colonel William Woodford and his 2nd Virginia Regiment, along with five companies of Culpeper Minutemen, to march towards Norfolk and protect “…all friends to the American cause.” The army departed ...

State Arsenal

As early as the days of John Harris in the mid-18th Century, Harrisburg has well provided for the storage and distribution of military munitions and supplies. Even prior to the completion of the first state capitol building in 1822, an ...

Battle of Wytheville

St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery

On July 13, 1863, Union Colonel John T. Toland led 872 officers and men of

the 34th Regiment Mounted Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Camp Piatt,

West Virginia, into Southwest Virginia to attack the railroads, telegraphs, and salt and ...

Marshall County Commemorates Service Men and Women

Erected By

The County Court

of Marshall County,

West Virginia

To Commemorate the Service

Men and Women of Marshall

County in the World War

1917 - 1919

The tumult and the shouting dies-

Lord God of Hosts - Be with us yet

lest we forget - Lest we forget

Marker is ...

Jackson at Young's Tavern

At Young’s Tavern, 12 room log home of Robert Young, where travelers frequently stopped for lodging, Andrew Jackson, his staff and two companies of militia, spent a night on their way to the Seminole Campaign in 1818. General Jackson followed ...