An Upper-Class Neighborhood 1630s-1699

From the 1630s to the end of the 17th century, this area along Backstreete boasted some of the finest dwellings in Jamestown. Governors, councilmen, burgesses, and lawyers all made this neighborhood home.

Richard Kemp, an ardent supporter of Governor Harvey, secretary ...

The Badger Building

Completed about 1883, this two-story limestone structure is representative of other commercial buildings located on the Courthouse Square in the 1880s. It was built for local financier Dr. W. H. Westfall and Captain Brandt Badger (b. 1839), a native of ...

Airy Mount Barn

Kentucky native Adam Rankin Johnson (1834-1922) came to Texas in 1854. After attaining the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army, Johnson later settled in Burnet County where he was active in business and civic affairs. In 1882 he ...

Batteries F & K, Third U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Batteries F & K Third U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. John C. Turnbull Commanding

July 1 Took position on crest of hill near General ...

Liberty County Citizen's Council 1946 - 1953

Dorchester Academy

The Errosion of the Franchise

With the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution in 1868 and 1869, African Americans were granted full citizenship and the right to vote. In less than a decade, nearly 100,000 ...

Tribute to Admiral de Grasse

To

Comte Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse

Admiral of the French Fleet

"Arbiter Of The War"

— — — General George Washington

Victor in the only decisive Naval Battle

in the American Revolution ( the Virginia

Capes, on Sept. 5, 1781) ...

1910 Post Office Building

Established in 1884, the original Marble Falls Post Office was built south of the Colorado River. William P. Cochran, appointed postmaster in 1901, built this structure in 1910 and leased it to the U. S. Government for use as a ...

Boswell’s Tavern

At this old tavern Lafayette camped, on June 12, 1781, while moving southward to intervene between Cornwallis and military stores in Albemarle County.

Marker is on Louisa Road (Virginia Route 22) just from James Madision Highway (U.S. 15), on the left ...

Foot Soldier Tribute

Ronald S. McDowell, Artist I.B.J.C.

This sculpture is dedicated to the Foot Soldiers of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.

With gallantry, courage and great bravery they faced the violence of attack dogs, high powered water hoses, and bombings. They were the fodder ...

South Branch Historic District

The site of homesteads settled early in the 1700's

Marker is on Rockafellows Mill Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org