In Memory of More Than 400 Prominent United States Colored Troop

In Memory of more than 400 prominent United States Colored Troops from Kent County, Maryland who bravely displayed extraordinary acts of heroism as they faithfully served their country with courage & honor in an attempt to gain freedom & equality ...

Pataskala Elementary School

The first school in what is now Pataskala was a “subscription school” operated by Amariah Cubberly on the nearby banks of the South Fork of the Licking River in the 1820s. Subscription schools, which charged fees, were the forerunners of ...

Moratock Furnace

Smelting furnace built

by Nathaniel Moody in

1843. It supplied iron

to Confederacy, 1862 -

1865. Stands 3/10 mi. NE.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (North Carolina Route 89) and Shepherd Mill Road, on the left when traveling south on Main Street. ...

Mile Stones of the old National Pike

Looking more like an ancient tombstone, the stone marker at the bottom of the hill before you, tucked inside the guardrail, was once used to denote mileage to Baltimore along the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike, also known as the old ...

Edward Bates Memorial

This glacial boulder

from the Bates Homestead

in Columbus, Ohio

was given to Kenyon College in 1953 by

Fanny Platt Bates Little

in memory of her brother

Edward Bates

son of Judge James Lawrence Bates

and grandson of the honorable Alfred ...

David Bates Douglass

Whoever passes through

this gateway

should remember

David Bates

Douglass

A gallant soldier and

officer in the War of 1812

A civil engineer of distinction

A teacher of wide experience

who in the years 1841-1844

while president of Kenyon

College laid out and

beautified its ...

California Big Trees State Park

The Discovery Stump

In the spring of 1852, Augustus T. Dowd, while hunting, discovered a grove of truly immense trees, now known as the Calaveras North Grove. Several stockholders of the Union Water Company (who employed Augustus as a hunter) developed ...

Senator Nicholas Ware

This county proudly bears the name of a United States Senator from Georgia.

Senator Nicholas Ware was born in Virginia in 1769, a son of Capt. Robert Ware, of the Revolutionary Army. Senator Ware moved to Augusta when a child, and ...

Battle of Lay's Ferry

May 14, 1864. A contingent from Sweeny´s (2d) div., 16th A.C. [US] made a crossing here in pontoon boats, but on a rumor of Confederate crossings upstream, it withdrew.

May 15. The division, supported by Welker´s Artillery [US], crossed in force ...

We Began Firing At Will: The 111th New York Regiment

"We went below and formed in line of battle and laid down on our arms. Sleep was out of the question but of course, human nature will succumb and drowsiness was general among the boys. It must have been nine ...