Death of McPherson

The monument in the enclosure was erected by U.S. Army Engineers to mark the site where Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson was killed during the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864.

McPherson rode S. from the Ga. R.R. when he heard ...

Battle of Hunterstown

In the first three days of July 1863, 165,000 soldiers converged on Gettysburg, leaving their mark forever on its land, buildings, and people. Like sparks from a bonfire, fights strayed far outside the town. One encounter took place in Hunterstown. ...

Statehouse Foundations

The Virginia General Assembly is the oldest representative legislature in the Western Hemisphere. Meeting for the first time in July 1619, it gathered in the “most convenient place we could finde to sitt in … the Quire of the churche.” ...

Lines of Defense

Lineas de Defensa

Surrounding defenses made St. Augustine a walled town. From here you can see a reconstructed part of the Cubo Line, the log wall which barred the land approach. It extended from the fort, past the City Gate, to ...

These Foundations

1607

These foundations were

discovered & identified in 1903

by Samuel H. Yonge,

Designer of the sea-wall & author of

“The Site of “Olde Jamestowne,” 1607-1698.”

----- • -----

Placed by the Association

for the Preservation of

Virginia Antiquities,

1907.

Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer's Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer’s Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

Conference House

In September 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge met here with British Lord Howe in an unsuccessful negotiation for peace.

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

Marker is on Satterlee Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. Joseph Confederate Saltworks

A major Confederate saltworks, with daily capacity of 150 bushels, before completion, was located 200 feet north. Brick foundations were salvaged from ruins of the old City of St. Joseph. Salt processed by evaporation of seawater was one of Florida's ...

The Siege of Detroit 1763

Shortly after the founding of Detroit in 1970 a village of Ottawa Indians was established on the south shore of the river in this vicinity and its inhabitants lived on friendly terms with the French garrison and settlers. However after ...