search

Results for B

Alabama Confederate Monument

1861-1865

South/Infantry Side

"Fame's temple boasts no higher name, no king is grander on his throne: No glory shines with brighter gleam, the name of "Patriot" stands along." C.T.R.

East/Artillery Side

"When this historic shaft shall crumbling lie in ages hence, in woman's heart ...

photo_library
Roebuck Spring

In 1850 George James Roebuck and his wife Ann Hawkins Roebuck built a log cabin at the mouth of Roebuck Spring. His Influence and leadership led to the area around it to be known as Roebuck. In 1900 Alabama Boys ...

photo_library
Centre Bridge / Delaware and Raritan Canal Feeder

[Side A:]

Centre Bridge

The Center Bridge Company was incorporated to construct a toll bridge across the Delaware River here in 1812, completely reconstructed in 1830, and substantially repaired in 1841 after a damaging flood. The bridge, a covered timber structure, was ...

photo_library
Willich's Brigade.

Wood's Division - Granger's Corps.

Willich's Brigade.

Wood's Division - Granger's Corps.

Brig. Gen. August Willich.

Nov. 25, 1863.

25th Illinois - Col. Richard H. Nodine.

35th Illinois - Lieut. Col. W. P. Chandler.

89th Illinois - Lieut. Col. W. ...

photo_library
Bridge Street

The original roadway connecting the Centre Bridge across the Delaware River and the road running along the river's east edge (now N.J. Route 29) was built by the Center Bridge Company and opened for traffic in 1813. The eastern portion ...

photo_library
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church

Completed in 1912, the Church of The Assumption is an example of the Mission Revival style of architecture. The third church built for Assumption Parish, it replaced the second church built on this site in 1884, which burned down in ...

photo_library
The Barger House

The War's Lasting Effects

Relocated from its original site approximately fifty miles to the south on Little Patterson’s Creek in Botetourt County, Virginia, the Barger home, immediately in front of you, is an operational pre-Civil War farmstead from the Valley of ...

photo_library
The Black Regiment

Battle of Rhode Island

Bloody Run Brook, First Black Militia,

R. Island Regt.

August 29, 1778.

In honor of

the first Black slaves

and freemen who fought in

the Battle of Rhode Island

as members of the

First Rhode Island Regiment

The Black Regiment

Marker is at the intersection of West ...

photo_library
Plumb House

The Valley is Lost

The Plumb House was built between 1802 and 1806 on what was then the western edge of Waynesboro. While fighting did not occur here until late in the war, the community felt its impact early on. Henry ...

photo_library
The 321st Observation Squadron (1923-1941)

Although the U.S. Army allowed civilian aircraft to land at Vancouver Barracks beginning in 1905, military aircraft began operating here in 1921, when the U.S. Army Air Service established a landing field for an aviation forest patrol. The patrol was ...

photo_library
menu
more_vert