Mother Mathilda Beasley, O.S.F.

Georgia's First Black Nun

Mathilda Taylor was born in 1834 in New Orleans, and came to Savannah as a young woman. She taught black children in her home before the Civil War, when it was still illegal. She married Abraham Beasley, ...

Seashore State Park

This park was developed by the National Park Service, Interior Department, through the Civilian Conservation Corps, in conjunction with the Virginia Conservation Commission. It covers 3400 acres and was opened, June 15, 1936. Two miles west is Lynhaven Bay, in ...

Battle of the Wilderness

Here May 5,6, 1864, 70,000 Confederates under Lee defeated 120,000 Federals under Grant. Confederate loss 11,500. Federal 18,000. This battle, fought with conspicuous bravery, in a Wilderness on fire, will take it’s place among the great battles of the Civil ...

Appomattox River

Near this site General Lee crossed the Appomattox River and proceeded up the hill to the McLean House where he met General Grant to draft the terms of surrender.

April 9, 1865.

Marker can be reached from Old Courthouse Road (Virginia Route ...

Appomattox

Here on Sunday April 9, 1865, after four years of heroic struggle in defense of principles believed fundamental to the existence of our government, Lee surrendered 9000 men, the remnant of an army still unconquered in spirit.

Marker is on Appomattox ...

Fort Watson

One of the chain of British

posts in South Carolina.

Located on this Indian Mound.

Besieged April 15-23, 1781

by use of Maham's tower,

Francis Marion forced the British

to surrender and secured for his men

badly needed ammunition and ...

United States Post Office

Oscar Wenderoth, Architect; 1914

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1980

Berkeley’s elegant Main Post Office is representative of the Second Renaissance Revival style, also called Neo-Classical Revival. Government buildings constructed in this era were designed to “educate and develop ...

Lincoln at Work and Play

You Can't Fool the People

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DeWitt County was part of the Eighth Judicial Circuit from its beginning, and so was Abraham Lincoln, who attended the first session of DeWitt Circuit Court in Clinton on October 24, 1839. Court sessions were ...

The Battle of Santa Clara

January 2-7, 1847

The Battle of Santa Clara was the only campaign fought in the Northern district of California between Californios and United States forces during the Mexican-American war. In the 1840’s an oak forest grew near the present Lawrence Expressway, ...

Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints

Site of five buildings 1897-1986. Enemies of church burned two, tornado destroyed one. 1994 marks 100 years of Mormon presence in this community.

Marker is at the intersection of Centerville Road (State Highway 20-67) and Park Road, on the left when ...