Los Banos

Los Baños (The Baths) del Padre Arroyo was a favorite bathing place for padres from San Juan Bautista Mission during their travels to San Joaquin Valley. Visited as early as 1805 by Spanish explorers, its name was changed to Los ...

Cooley's Bridge

Front: The original Cooley's Bridge, built across the Saluda River in 1835-36 to replace a ferry, stood about 150 yds. above the present bridge over S.C. Hwy. 247. It was built for Hiram Cooley (ca. 1796-1864), a cotton planter who ...

Baruch Home

On this site stood the birthplace and boyhood home of Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965), financier, philanthropist, and adviser to presidents. He was instrumental in establishing the Camden Hospital, with opened in 1913, as a tribute to his father, Dr. Simon ...

Second Brigade

Third Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps Third Division

Second Brigade

Brig. Gen. George A. Custer

1st. 5th. 6th. 7th (10 cos.) Michigan Cavalry

June 30 Skirmished with Major Gen. Stuart's Cavalry at Hanover supported Battery ...

Donaldson Air Force Base / Captain John O. Donaldson

Donaldson Air Force Base

Greenville Army Air Base opened on this site in 1942 and trained B-25 bomber crews during World War II. Emphasizing air transport after 1945 and renamed Donaldson Air Force Base in 1951. It was the home ...

Metropolitan Saloon and Bowling Alley

Site of

At this site was one of California’s first bowling alleys. It was actually three buildings, with single-lane bowling alleys in each of the side buildings. The establishment, also known as the Metropolitan Saloon and Sporting Hall, featured gambling and ...

Merced Assembly Center

This was one of 15 temporary detention camps established during World War II to incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry, a majority of whom were American citizens, without specific charges or trial. From May to September 1942, 4669 residents of Northern ...

Cobra AH-1G/S/F Helicopter

Cobra

AH-1G/S/F Helicopter

Length: 53'

Weight: 8,404 lbs.

Payload: 2500 lbs.

Range: 359 miles

Cruise Speed: 138mph

• Although a 1966 model this helicopter was purchased by the US Army in November 1967.

• Cobra 318 arrived in Vietnam in the beginning of Feb. 1968

• Feb. 12th, 1968 ...

South Carolina Troops at Battle of Averasboro, NC

On this field March 15-16 1865 men of South Carolina stood with men of other Southern States and fought bloodily and bravely for their beliefs and way of life. In doing so they wrote their names in imperishable letters in ...

Battle of Boykin's Mill

Gen. Edward E. Potter commanding 2700 white and Negro Union troops left Georgetown April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden. Here on April 18, in one of the last engagements of the war, a small force ...