St. Peter's (Meetze's) Lutheran Church

This church, organized in 1780, held services in German and English until 1874. In 1835 it aligned with the Tennessee Synod and remained in it until 1922, when St. Peter's reunited with the South Carolina Synod. This 1953 sanctuary is ...

Newport News

1607 - 1957

This area was blessed with abundant springs famous to mariners for centuries after the great sea captain Christopher Newport visited here enroute to Jamestown in May 1607 in command of the first permanent English settlers of the New ...

Pilgrimage

In July 1896, members of the National League of Colored Women traveled here from Washington, D.C. and posed for their picture in front of John Brown’s Fort. The women came to pay homage to Brown and his raiders, establishing a ...

Meriden Spanish American War Memorial

This memorial presented by the City of Meriden to the veterans of the Spanish American War

Company L., First Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry.

Bowen, Charles B. • Jones, Delbert R. • Keeney, Raymond G. • Abel, Alfred A. • Abel, Arthur ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1371

Seashore State Park at Cape Henry, now known as First Landing State Park, was built by an all African American regiment of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal-era relief program that employed young men ages 17 to 25. The ...

Battery H, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

First Brigade - Second Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

Second Division First Brigade

3rd Penna. Heavy Artillery

Section Battery H

Two 3 inch Rifles

Captain William D. Rank

July 2 Marched with the 2d. Cavalry Division and went into position on the Hanover ...

Muddy Creek Camp and Crossing

?The Muddy Creek Camp, which was northwest of this marker and on the west side of the Muddy Creek was used by Brigham Young's first group of Mormon pioneers who arrived here on July 9, 1847. Thomas Bullock reported that ...

Sluckup

In Revolutionary days this area of Paramus was known by the unusual name of Sluckup. The name was derived from a local legend. A Dutch farmer hung his shirt on a nearby fence while working in his field. When he ...

Wisconsin State Fair Park

In 1892, this site became the permanent home of the Wisconsin State Fair after its purchase a year earlier by the State Agricultural Society. Until then, the Fair had moved annually since the first one in Janesville in 1851.

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The Endview Spring

The Civil War at Endview

The fresh water bubbling from this natural spring has supported wildlife and the various residents on this property: Indian hunting parties, the Harwood/Curtis families, and military encampments. During the American Revolution, General George Washington’s soldiers stopped ...