From Carriages to Corvettes

Sightseers have been riding the spectacular road up Pikes Peak since 1889. Back then, early risers chugged up the pass on the Colorado Midland train to Cascade. There, horse drawn carriages awaited eager passengers. According to Francis Heizer, “The tourists ...

Engines of Destruction

The Battle of Fredericksburg

On December 13, 1862, nine Confederate cannon on this knoll helped repulse one of two major Union attacks against Jackson's front. At noon, Union infantry crashed into the Confederate infantry line to your right-front. Captain Greenlee Davidson's ...

20th Massachusetts Infantry

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):20th Mass. Infantry.

3rd Brig. 2nd Div. 2nd Corps.

July 3rd 1863.

(Back):

This monument marks the position occupied by the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry

in line of battle July 2d & 3d 1863 until advanced to ...

Stricken Down in the Performance of Duty

In tribute to Major Joseph Hamilton Daviess, Grand Master of Masons in Kentucky, who fell in battle here, and to the many Freemasons of General Harrison's command whose valor is held in grateful remembrance.

Marker is on Battleground Avenue near North ...

Second Schweinfurt Memorial

Second Schweinfurt

Memorial Association

presents and dedicates this memorial

to the memory of the airmen of the

United States Army 8th Air Force

who against overwhelming odds

and savage defiance

attacked and destroyed

the ball bearing factories in

Schweinfurt, Germany

14 October 1943

Officially known as

Mission No. 115

Known by those who ...

Chattanooga's First Citizens

In June, 1837 the fifty-three householders living on the two hundred forty acres bounded by Tennessee River. Georgia Avenue, Ninth Street and Cameron Hill elected commissioner to represent them in securing legal title to their individual parcels of land, thus ...

Milford World War I Veterans

1917 - 1918

In honor of the World War Veterans of this community

[List of local veterans follow]

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Catherine Street, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

World War II Coastal Defenses at the Aransas Pass

In the late 1700's the US began a coastal defense system to protect ports and strategic points. Texas, which became a State in 1845, featured several Gulf Coast sites that would prove important in the US Military engagements in the ...

Milford World Wars Honor Roll

World War I Honored Dead

Ancil Geiger •

Charles Frederick Neal •

Jesse E. Smith

World War II Honored Dead

Lewis E. Auer •

Roy N. Auer •

Robert L. Collins •

Charles LeCount •

Alvin J. Merkle •

Harry J. Michael •

Charles E. Remy •

Charles H. Rogers •

Howard C. ...

Fort Union National Monument / Santa Fe Trail

1851-1891

Side A:

Fort Union National Monument 1851-1891

Once the largest post in the Southwest, Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico ...