Dewitt Bluff

[Front]

Located about 1/2 mile east, this bluff, part of a Royal landgrant to Edward Crofts in 1740, was named for the DeWitt family, who settled nearby prior to 1767. This area of Prince Frederick Parish was known as Queensborough ...

P.G.T. Beauregard

P.G.T. Beauregard

General

Commanding Confederate forces Charleston South Carolina

Held this city and harbour inviolate against combined attacks by land and water 1863 1864 1865

Marker is at the intersection of Meeting Street and Broad Street on Meeting Street.

Courtesy ...

Battery I, Fifth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade, Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery I Fifth U.S. Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

Lieut. Malbone F. Watson commanding

July 2 About 4.30 p.m. arrived and took position north of Little Round Top. 5.30 moved to the front at the ...

Otto Ebeling House

Banker Otto Ebeling (1863-1935) built this Victorian residence for his wife, Emille (Giesecke), and their four children shortly after moving to Marble Falls in 1891. Ebeling sold the property in 1913 when he moved to Austin. Over the years the ...

Site of First U.S. Branch Mint

The first United States Branch Mint in San Francisco was authorized by Congress July 3, 1852, and opened for operation on April 3, 1854. Dr. L.A. Birdall was the first superintendent: J. Huston, first minter: A. Haraszthy, first assayer.

State ...

Bicentennial of the Spanish Expeditions to the Northwest Coasts

1771–1991

[Upper Marker]:

Pedro de Alberni, Captain of the Catalan Volunteers and Commander of the Spanish Establishment at Santa Cruz de Nootka, 1790-1792.

Offered by the Government of Spain on the occasion of the visit of the Spanish training ship “Juan Sebastian el ...

Ninth Massachusetts Battery

2nd Position

2nd Position

6 p.m.

July 2, 1863.

Ninth Mass. Battery

Capt. Bigelow

"By prolonge retired firing"

from the cross road 400 yds. distant

without infantry support before

Barksdale's Confed. Brigade.

Final stand made across this angle.

Marker is ...

Enon Baptist Church

This church was organized in 1872 by Rev. Benjamin Lawson and held early services in a brush arbor. The first sanctuary, a log building, was built about 1883, during the ministry of Rev. S.B.Taylor; its timbers were reused to build ...

Dobyville Cemetery

The Dobyville Cemetery is the last visible remnant of the community of Dobyville. Settled in the 1850s, and named for the town’s location on a white adobe rock hill. The cemetery contains more than 230 marked graves, between 60 and ...

John Herbert Brooks

An Atlantic City native, Brooks spent his early years in a life and death struggle with drug addiction. After conquering his own addiction, he worked to deter others from substance abuse. In 1969, Brooks co-founded NARCO, Inc., and, with volunteers, ...