Blanks Crossroads

Charles City County, Virginia

This intersection of the Old Main Road, or Ridgepath, and the road from Soanes Bridge to Kennons, derives its name from an eighteenth-century tavern owned by the Blanks family. Blanks Tavern was one of a few licensed ...

December 31, 1862

10 A.M. - Noon

Despite stiffening Union resistance, the Confederate tide swept on. The Federals made stand after stand, only to give ground again. Take this short trail to a Union position among the woods and rock outcroppings.

Marker is on Park ...

Hard Labor Creek State Park

On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate

Hard Labor Creek State Park

This park was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal program sponsored by President Roosevelt. It was administered ...

13th Bomb Squadron

in the Vietnam War 1964 - 1971

May their courageous actions in

defense of freedom never be forgotten

Courtesy hmdb.org

British Army Grounded Arms

On these fields

the British Army

grounded arms

at the surrender.

Marker is on Ferry Street (New York Route 29), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bischosberger Hotel

Baxter Springs Historic Walking Tour

Julius Bischosberger, a native of Prussia, came to Baxter Springs in 1868 and constructed a frame building for the Bischosberger Hotel and Restaurant on this site. Directly across the street to the north was the Bischosberger ...

“The Steelworker in Pittsburg”

Dedicated September 10, 1995

Gone are the days when steelworkers in the rolling mill toiled in extreme heat, catching red-hot steel rods equipped only with a pair of tongs, cotton gloves and leather shin guards. Today’s steelworker is a pace setter ...

Parson's Battery

4th U.S. Artillery Co. "H" & "M"

The most powerful federal battery on this field armed with four 3" Ordnance rifles and four 12 pdr. howitzers. This battery of battle hardened regulars poured charge after charge of canister at less than ...

Pilot Knob

1851 • 1922

[symbol of the D.A.R.]

To Commemorate The Treaty at Mendota

Negotiated on

Pilot Knob

Whereby the Sioux Indians ceded their lands

in the Territory of Minnesota and State of Iowa

to the United States Government.

Placed by

Mendota Chapter, Daughters American Revolution

St. Paul, Minn.

Marker can be ...

Alexander Graham Bell

From the to floor of this building

was sent on June 3, 1880

over a beam of light to 1325 L Street,

the first wireless telephone message

in the history of the world.

The apparatus used in sending the message