Counterscarp Battery

Along the outer wall of the ditch you see the counterscarp battery, named for its location on the "counterscarp," or outer wall, of the dry ditch.

This structure sheltered troops who could direct musketry toward the river or into the ditch ...

CCAPA

Companhia Camaniho Aéreo Pão de Açúcar

No dia 27 de Octubro de 2002, a Companhia Camaniho Aéreo Pão de Açúcar - CCAPA - compleou 90 anos de serviços ininteruptos do teleférico. Esta tecnologia de ponta de engemharia transformou o Pão de ...

Preserving Baymen Heritage

Industry & Trade

Local mariners or “baymen,” found that they could support themselves almost entirely from the rich harvest of waterfowl, crabs, flounder, clams, oysters, and other native resources of the back bays. To navigate the shallow depths of these intercoastal ...

Troup-Clark Political Feud

In the street near this site in June 1807, occurred the horse-whipping of Superior Court Judge Charles Tait by his political enemy John Clark, later Governor of Georgia. Clark was fined $2,000 for the assault. The incident illustrates Georgia politics ...

Camperdown Mill

Greenville's first post-bellum textile mill was founded by Massachusetts mill owners George Hall, George Putnam, and O.H. Sampson, who came south to start a textile business after a disasterous fire in Boston. In cooperation with Vardry McBee's heirs, Alexander and ...

Mulberry Grove Plantation

Mulberry Grove which is located approximately 2 miles northeast from this marker is one of the most historic of the old Savannah River plantations.

In early Colonial days mulberry trees were cultivated at Mulberry Grove for use in Georgia`s silk industry. ...

Stacy Esplanade

Stacy Esplanade

Is the Result of a Wish Conceived By

His Parents and Fulfilled by Their Son

George O. Stacy

Keenly Alive to the Beauty Of

Gloucester Harbor

He Desired to Bring to Its Shores A

Corresponding Beauty

This Tablet is a Loving Tribute

From His Friends Of

The Hawthorne ...

Mela Leger-Bilingual Education Pioneer

(1928-2006)

Side A:

At four, Manuelita de Atocha (Mela) Lucero Leger read Spanish language newspapers to her blind grandfather in Colonias. Although New Mexico's constitution protects Spanish-speaking students, school children were often punished for speaking Spanish. As a pioneer in bilingual education, ...

Paisano Pass

Legend recounts that two Spaniards meeting here greeted each other "Mi Paisano" (My Countryman). First known to history when Juan Dominguez de Mendoza camped here on January 3, 1684. Well known after 1850 as a point on the Chihuahua Trail, ...

Henricus Historical Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Near this spot, the Arrohateck Indians greeted John Smith and his compatriots during their May 1607 exploration upriver from Jamestown. Smith’s 1612 Map of Virginia shows Arrohateck towns on both shores of the James ...