The Battle of Trent’s Reach

On Jan. 23, 1865, the ironclads Virginia II, Richmond, and Fredericksburg, with five smaller vessels, descended the James River in an effort to attack the Union supply depot at City Point. A reliable report indicated that recent floods had washed ...

Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge

[ south side of bridge ]

In Memoriam

Remember Pearl Harbor

Keep America Alert!

To Those

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice

During The Attack On Pearl Harbor

07:55 AM, 7 December 1941

Dedicated By

The Leopoldville Memorial Association

And The Waterbury Veterans

Memorial Committee On December 7, 1998

[ emblem on the ...

The Peabody-Williams School

Petersburg, Virginia

Disrupted by the convulsions of the First World War, efforts to replace the increasingly inadequate Peabody School on Fillmore Street stretched out from 1913 until 1920, when the new Peabody-Williams School opened on Jones Street. Charles Robinson, who designed ...

Battery Dantzler

May 1864-April 1865

First named Ft. Howlett, the battery was renamed after Col. Olin M. Dantzler, who was killed on June 2, 1864, in an attempt to capture Ft. Dutton. Leading the 22nd South Carolina Inf. the attack failed. Battery Dantzler ...

The Birthplace of George McDuffie

From these humble and obscure Georgia pinelands, assisted by the plantation-owning South Carolina Calhouns, George McDuffie rose to become Congressman, Senator, and Governor of South Carolina.

McDuffie's political prominence involved him in a renowned political dispute when his loyalty to John ...

Earliest Known Public High School for African Americans in Virgi

Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg established a public school system in 1868, two years before the state’s mandate. Colored Elementary School #1 was conducted in the old church building of the African Baptist Church, which stood to your left. The building had been ...

Enoch Hibbard House

This Property Has Been

Placed On The

National Register

Of Historic Places

By The United States

Department Of The Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Church Street and Kendrick Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Church Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oglethorpe Bench

On this spot one hundred and seventy three years ago James Oglethorpe the founder of the colony pitched his tent and here rested at the close of the day from which Georgia was settled.

Erected by the Georgia Society of ...

Battlefield Landmarks - West and North

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"...The whole plain was covered with unarmed rebels, waving coats, hats, and handkerchiefs in token of a wish to surrender."

Lt. Col. Franklin Sawyer, U.S.A.

8th Ohio Infantry

You are standing at the Union position on Cemetery Ridge, ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- You want to be a Ranger?

Do you have the right stuff to be a FOREST RANGER?!

Forest Service District Rangers today are resource professionals. She/he could be a forester, fish or wildlife biologist, hydrologist, botanist, landscape architect or other professional.

Teams of specialists with expertise in public ...