Cupolas from the Virginia State Penitentiary

The cupolas you see here sat atop the Virginia State Penitentiary building that stood not far from here. Benjamin Henry Latrobe's original penitentiary was replaced by the building below in the 20th century, but was torn down in 1992 when ...

National Historic Landmark - Baltimore Basilica

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark.

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America.

Salisbury Confederate Memorial

In memory of

Rowan’s

Confederate Soldiers

that their heroic deeds,

sublime self-sacrifice

and undying devotion

to duty and Country

may never be forgotten

1861 – 1865

[ Left of Monument: ]

Soldiers of the

Confederacy,

Fame has given you

an imperishable crown.

History will record

your daring valor,

noble sufferings and

matchless achievements

to the honor and

glory or ...

Honoring the Dead of the Battle of Bentonville

“Time may teach us to forgive, but it can never make us forget.”

- Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton, memorial address at Bentonville, March 20, 1895.

By the evening of March 22, 1865 both the Union and Confederate armies had vacated ...

The First Police Station

1863 marked the beginning of the first organized Police Force in the city. The council named a captain and three patrolmen to serve from twilight to daybreak. On this site was located the first city Police Station. It contained three ...

A Golden Dedication for I-90

The nation celebrated completion of Interstate 90 after contractors paved the last four-miles of freeway near Blue Earth in 1978. Reminiscent of the "Golden Spike" that symbolized completion of the nation's first transcontinental railroad in 1869, officials arranged to tint ...

In Memorial to the Commercial Fisherman Lost at Sea

Down to the sea in ships they go, these chosen men of steel. Though mist and foam and northwest wind is pounding at the keel. So sail they must each crispy morn, away from trees and sod. The sea may ...

Battlefield of Seven Pines

Nearby stood "The Twin Houses" from the vicinity of which Confederate Troops moving eastward, charged the Federal Second Line near Seven Pines after they had stormed Casey's Redoubt and the rest of the Federal First Line on May 31, 1862.

Marker ...

Battlefield of Seven Pines

The Federal first line, against which the right wave of the Confederate Army directed the main assault of May 31, 1862, crossed the Williamsburg Road near this spot. Casey’s Redoubt, the centre of Federal resistance on this line, was 200 ...

Battlefield of Seven Pines

In their Eastward attack of May 31, 1862 on Federal troops holding Seven Pines, Rodes' Brigade to the South of this highway and Garland’s Brigade to the North, supported respectively by Rains and G.B. Anderson, came under heavy fire approximately ...