Pluck and Good Fortune

“I won’t die here in this creek… [I’m] getting out of here.” - Pinkie Adair, homesteader and camp cook

During the 1910 Fires, perseverance often meant the difference between life and death. At 26 years old, Ione “Pinkie” Adair could ride, ...

Upper Springfield Meeting House and Cemetery

Historical Site

This Site was placed in the National

and New Jersey State Historical Registers

in 1979.

The Meeting House, situated at the

intersection of two Indian Trails, is one

of the oldest in Burlington County.

Early Quakers worshipped here and

are resting in the Burial Grounds.

Marker is ...

Texan Capture of Mexican Dispatches

The San Jacinto Campaign in Southwest Harris County

After the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, Gen. Sam Houston led the Texan Army in retreat from Gonzales. The Mexican army under Gen. Santa Anna followed eastward from San ...

Relatives of Elizabeth Bayley Seton

In Memory of the Relatives of

Elizabeth Bayley Seton who are buried in this churchyard

Reverend Richard Charlon, D.D.

her grandfather,

Rector of St. Andrew’s Church from 1747 until is death in 1777.

Mary Bayeux Charlton,

her grandmother,

Wife of Reverend Richard Charlton, date of death unknown.

Dr. ...

Confederate Monument - Eastville, VA

Erected by the Harmanson-West Camp Confederate Veterans, The Daughters of the Confederacy and the citizens of the Eastern Shore of Virginia; to the soldiers of the Confederacy from Northampton and Accomack Counties. They died bravely in war, or in peace ...

University of Nebraska at Kearney

In 1903 the legislature appropriated $50,000 to establish a state normal school in central or western Nebraska. After 111 ballots, the State Board of Education chose Kearney as the site. The city donated twenty acres on the west edge of ...

A Maze of Mountains

The Cumberland Mountains on which you stand are only one link in a great chain of ridges and valleys that stretch 900 miles from New England to Alabama. The Appalachian wilderness was a 150-mile-wide wall to settlers looking west in ...

Federal Artillery Positions

August 29 and 30, 1862

Federal Artillery Positions

From the John Dogan House northward to this point, Union batteries occupied this ridge throughout the Second Battle of Manassas. At one time on August 30 more than thirty guns were firing from this ...

Named for a British Lord

The town you see 1,400 feet below, the mountain on which you stand, and the Gap itself all bear the name of an English royal - the Duke of Cumberland. Prince William Augustus (1721-1765) was the third and favorite son ...

10th Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):10th

Massachusetts

(Left):2nd Brigade.

3rd Division.

6th Corps.

(Back):July 2nd 1863.

Marker is on Sedgwick Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

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