Lester Flatt

He was born at Duncans Chapel near the boundary of Putnam and Overton Counties, TN, and moved to Sparta at an early age where he made his permanent home. A bluegrass music pioneer and composer, Mr. Flatt was also a ...

Genevieve Blatt (1913 - 1996)

One of the most influential women in Pennsylvania politics in the 20th century. First woman to be elected to a statewide office, Secretary of Internal Affairs, and to be nominated by a major party to run for the U.S. Senate. ...

Edenton Bell Battery C.S.A.

Organized in March 1862 under the leadership of Capt. William Badham Jr., Lt. John M. Jones, and Lt. Nelson McClees, the Edenton Bell Battery was composed of men primarily from Chowan, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties. Lacking adequate artillery, various institutions ...

Lewis-Bingham-Waggoner Estate

About 1856, John Lewis erected this mansion on 22 acres he had owned since 1845. George Caleb Bingham, the famous Missouri genre painter, bought the farm in 1864 and lived here until 1870. W.H. Waggoner, mill owner, bought it in ...

Katonah Civil War Memorial

[ East plaque ]

In Memoriam

Capt. James Mckeel

Capt. John W. Sweetman

And Members of Co. A 4th N.Y. Vol.

Heavy Art’y Who Enlisted From

Katonah, NY to Serve During

The Civil War of 1861 – 1865

James C. Bogan

Franklin Dingee

Oscar L. Dearborn

Leonidas E. ...

National Historic Landmark - Peale's Baltimore Museum

Has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935.

This site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

Cattle (Beefsteak) Raid

Leaving from a point along the Confederate right flank on Boydon Plank Road on 14 Sept. 1864, Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton took about 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen and rode more than 100 miles around the rear of the Union army. Reaching ...

The John Crain Kunkel and Katherine Smoot Kunkel Memorial

In memory of U.S. Congressman John Crain Kunkel and Katherine Smoot Kunkel for their many years of service and dedication to the community.

Marker is at the intersection of N. Front Street and State Street, on the right when traveling south ...

Lynchburg Confederate Soldiers Monument

(front)

1861—1865

Our Confederate Soldiers

(rear)

Erected by the

Daughters of the Confederacy

of

Lynchburg, Virginia

in 1899,

to commemorate the heroism

of our Confederate Soldiers

(side)

Kirk Wood Otey Chapter U.D.C.

(side)

Old Dominion Chapter U.D.C.

Marker is at the intersection of Court Street and Ninth Street, on the right when traveling west on ...

Roger Atkinson Pryor

(19 July 1828 – 14 Mar. 1919)

Roger A. Pryor was reared at Old Place near present-day Crewe. A lawyer and newspaper editor, he won election to the House of Representatives in 1859 and resigned in 1861. He agitated for secession ...