Battle of Balls Bluff

October 21, 1861

6 AM - After crossing the river, the 15 MA (Colonel Devens) advanced to the area near the Jackson house, leaving the 20 MA (Colonel Lee) on the bluff to guard the exit path to the river.

8 AM ...

Chicago Board of Trade Battery

December 31, 1862

Panic-stricken Union troops bolted out of the woods, closely pressed by cheering Texans. Canister from the battery's six guns, placed on this rise, forced back the attackers. Reinforced by a second battery, the Union artillerymen repulsed a second ...

Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller

Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller was born on 26 June 1898 in West Point and lived here until entering Virginia Military Institute in 1917. He withdrew a year later and enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving more than 37 years. One ...

Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller

“West Point’s Own” “A Marine’s Marine”

Lt. General Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller, the most decorated Marine in the history of this country, was born on June 26, 1898 and grew up only a few houses away from where are standing. He ...

Pittsburg Post Dispatch Building

Built in 1923, this brick building was the home of the Coast Counties Gas and Electric Company which provided utilities to the City of Pittsburgh. The company closed its office in the 1950s and the building became a newspaper publishing ...

Primitive Baptist Church

Built in 1869 by the Valdosta Baptist Church, this is the oldest extant Church building in Valdosta. The building was purchased by the Valdosta Primitive Baptist Church when it was constituted on January 28, 1899.

Marker is on East Central Avenue ...

Major General James B. McPherson

(Right):Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson.

Atlanta.

July 22, 1864.

(Left):Erected by his comrades

of The Society of

The Army of the Tennessee

Marker is at the intersection of I Street NW and 15th Street NW, on the right when traveling ...

Liberty Tree

Upper tablet: This tablet is placed upon the Liberty Tree by the Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution of Annapolis, Maryland, October 19, 1907 to commemorate the first treaty made here with the Susquehannocks in 1652, ...

Bethlehem Baptist Church

(Front text)

This church, officially organized in 1868, had its origins in the antebellum Barnwell Baptist Church, which was located on this site until about 1854, when it built a new church on another lot. At that time several free ...

Site of Chamberlin's

The Site

of

Chamberlin's

Where

The General Society

Sons of the Revolution

was organized

April 19, 1890

Marker is at the intersection of 15th Street NW and I Street NW, on the right when traveling north on 15th Street NW.