Joseph Bloomfield

In honor of Joseph Bloomfield, Major in the American Revolutionary War who became General in the War of 1812 and later Governor of the state of New Jersey, for whom the town of Bloomfield was named. On this site he ...

London Avenue Canal Floodwall Breach

On August 29, 2005, tidal surge from Hurricane Katrina exposed design flaws in the London Avenue Canal floodwall, part of the Federal Flood Protection System. The floodwater killed many Gentilly residents and their beloved pets. The breach was one of ...

Historic Hopedale / Clark Gable, "The King of Hollywood"

Side one:

Platted by educator and abolitionist Cyrus NcNeely in 1849, Hopedale was the site of McNeely Normal School, later Hopedale Normal College, the first coeducational college for teachers in eastern Ohio. It operated from 1849 to 1902. Among its graduates ...

Brig. Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins, C.S.A.

Born November 10, 1830 in Greenbottom, Virginia, he was a graduate of Jefferson College and studied law at Harvard University. Albert Jenkins served as U.S. Congressman from 1857 to 1861 and then resigned to serve the confederacy. Thereafter, he served ...

Bertha Evans Morgan Rose Garden

This rose garden was created to honor Bertha Evans Morgan, wife of J. Robert Morgan, who was a nephew of Jeptha and Minnie Morgan.

Bertha Morgan was a teacher, wife, mother, Clemson University employee and dedicated Christian. Throughout her long life ...

Road to Sunbury

1734

Important Colonial port of entry. First Masonic Lodge meeting in Georgia believed held here February 1734 with Oglethorpe as Master.

Marker is at the intersection of North Coastal Highway (U.S. 17) and Martin Road, on the right when traveling north on ...

Battle of Boonville

A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri

On June 17, 1861, the Battle of Boonville took place at this and other locations along this road. By most standards of warfare, the Battle of Boonville was more truly a skirmish or ...

Ninth Michigan Battery

(Battery I, 1st Michigan Artillery)

(Front):Ninth Mich. Bat'y. I. First Art'y.

1st Brig.

Horse Artil'y.

Cavalry Corps

(Back):Mustered in at Detroit, Mich.

Aug. 29, 1862.

Mustered out at Detroit, Mich

July 14, 1865.

This monument marks the position

held by ...

Battle of Piedmont

Final Action at New Hope

The Battle of Piedmont, fought on June 5, 1864 between Union Gen. David Hunter and Confederate Gen. William E. "Grumble" Jones. ended here. It began more than a mile northeast when the 12,000-man strong Federal army, ...

The Battle of Boonville

On the morning of June 17, 1861, one of the first engagements of the War Between the States occurred between State and Federal troops here in the hills below Boonville. The engagement began at 8 A.M. and ended near this ...