The Burial Site of Captain John Herbert Dent

This U.S. Naval officer was born in Maryland

in 1782 and died at his plantation in St.

Bartholomew's Parish, S.C. in 1823. He served

as acting captain of the frigate "Constitution" in

1804 during the war with Tripoli, and was senior

officer ...

Bethel Presbyterian Church

Founded on this site in 1728 by the Reverend Archibald Stobo, Bethel or Pon Pon Church served a large Presbyterian congregation until replaced by Bethel Presbyterian Church in nearby town of Walterboro

early in the nineteenth century. The original bell ...

Alberto Santos-Dumont Memorial

Parque Nacional do Iguaçu

As alturas não me intimidam. —Santos-Dumont, Foz do Iguaçu, 24 Abril 1916.

Posso dizer-ihe, Frederico Engel, que estas maravilhas em torno das cataratas não podem continuar a pertencer a um particular (Santos–Dumont) Foz, 25 de Abril de 1916.

Com ...

Elizabethtown

The discovery of gold on Baldy Mountain in 1866 brought such a rush of fortune-seekers to the Moreno Valley that “E-town” became a roaring mining camp almost overnight. Because of water and transportation problems, and a decline in ore quality, ...

Schraalenburgh Road

Haworth’s Historic Highway

Beginning as an Indian trail, it became a Colonial road through the village of Schraalenburgh, linking Teaneck with Tappan, N.Y. Surveyed and improved in 1775, it appeared on maps made during the Revolutionary War by Americans, French and ...

The Blind Knight

4-½ mi. S.E., near Liberty, Francis Joseph Campbell lived as a boy. Blinded in 1836, when 4 years old, he was educated in the first class of the State School for the Blind, later in Boston and Europe. Settling in ...

There Was Work To Be Done

The CCC worked within state and national parks and forest areas across the nation combating soil erosion, fighting forest fires and building park facilities. At Big Spring, boys from 3 separate camps (Co. 1710, 734 and 1740) kept busy with ...

The Battle of Cross Keys

“It was not in men to stand such fire as that.”

Following Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s victory at Winchester, Union troops pursued the Confederates south, “up” the Shenandoah Valley. While Gen. John C. Fremont advanced on the Valley Turnpike, another ...

Original Home Built By Gottlieb and Johanna Heileman

This is the original Heileman family mansion. It was built on land purchased by Gottlieb Heileman in 1870.

As was the custom of the day, Heileman located the new home as closely as possible to the Brewery which he had founded.

The ...

The Battle Opens

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

By mid-afternoon on June 1, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant massed 45,000 Federals near Old Cold Harbor, 800 yards east of here. At 5:00 p.m. he ordered an attack, hoping to split Lee’s army into two ...