Battle of the Lacolle Mill

Here, on 30 March 1814, Major R.B. Handcock and a British garrison of 500 men of the 13th Regiment Royal Marines, Canadian Fencibles, Voltigeurs and Indians withstood an attack by 4,000 American soldiers on the fortified mill. Daunted by their ...

Confederate Memorial Pyramid

[South side]:

Numini et Patri ae Asto

[West side]:

Erected by the Holly-Wood Memorial Association

A.D. 1869

[North side]:

Memoria in Aeterna

[East side]:

To the Confederate Dead

Marker is on Hollywood Cemetery Access Road near South Cherry Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cincinnati Union Terminal

The Cincinnati Union Terminal opened in March 1933 and integrated rail travel in the city, which previously operated from five separate passenger terminals. Built when rail travel was already in decline, Union Terminal stopped operating as a passenger railroad ...

Conservation and Environmental Studies Center, Inc.

Conservation and Environmental

Studies Center, Inc.

has been designated a

National Environmental

Education Landmark

This site possesses distinctive values

in revealing significant natural and

cultural processes through effective

environmental education programs

Marker is at the intersection of North Whites Bog Road and West Whites Bog Road, on the left ...

John James Audubon in Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History is part of Cincinnati Museum Center. The Western Museum Society, organized by Dr. Daniel Drake in 1818, preceded it. The Western Museum Society's collection was built around ornithology, fossil zoology, geology, and Native ...

Commemorating LaGrange Centennial 1836 - 1936

The Centennial Stone was erected in 1936 to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Town of LaGrange on June 13, 1836.

LaGrange County was established by act of the Indiana Legislature in 1832, sixteen years after Indiana ...

Chattanooga Creek Picket Lines

Soldier's Truces

(Sidebar):

After the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans retreated to Federal-occupied Chattanooga, a strategically vital rail center, where Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg laid siege from Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Union Gen. Ulysses S. ...

Sherman at Harris’ Quarters

On Nov. 18, 1864, Hq. Military Division of the Mississippi [US], Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, were established here at “Harris´ Quarters,” the overseer’s house and negro cabins of a large plantation owned by Judge John Harris of Covington. Gen. Sherman ...

The Battle of Piqua, or Picawey

Before you lay Piqua, or Picawey, a Shawnee settlement where 1,000 Kentucky militiamen under Col. George Rogers Clark defeated an alliance of Shawnee, Delaware, Mingo and Wyandot warriors on August 8, 1780 in the largest battle fought west of the ...

Surrender of Confederate Troops

May 12, 1865

Brig. Gen. Wm. T. Wofford [CS] arranged with Brig. Gen. Henry M. Judah, U.S.A. for the surrender of some 3000 to 4000 Confederate soldiers, mostly Georgians, not paroled in Virginia, N. Carolina, and elsewhere.

During final negotiations, Gen. Wofford´s ...