W.B. Strong Memorial Railroad Park

Strong City, Kansas

The town of Strong City originated in March of 1871 when the Santa Fe Railroad was completed to the point then known as Cottonwood Station. Strong City was referred to as Cottonwood Station until 1881. In February of ...

Drewry’s Bluff

This bluff on the James River, a mile east, was fortified by Captain A. H. Drewry in 1862. A Union fleet, attempting to pass it, was driven back, May 15, 1862; and thereafter it served as a bar to attacks ...

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Waterbury, Middlebury, Southbury

French General Jean Baptiste Donation de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War ...

Copacabana Fort

Army History Museum

Together with the Arpoador Rock and Cape, the Fort is part of an important landscape group located between two highly populated neighbourhoods: Copacabana and Ipanema.

Date: inaugurated in 1914 by President Marechal Hermes da Fonseca.

Last Restoration: in 1987, with ...

Drewry’s Bluff

A mile east is Drewry's Bluff, James River fortification of Richmond, 1862-1865. Earthworks remain.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) and Gwynn Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Jefferson Davis Highway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Battle of Drywood

September 2, 1861

After their victory at Wilson's Creek, on Aug. 10, 1861, Gen. Sterling Price's 12,000 Missouri State Guards marched north and camped near Nevada on the evening of Aug. 31. Next day 800 men felt out the 1800 Federals ...

Osbornes

The town of Osbornes was named for Captain Thomas Osborne who settled nearby at Coxendale in 1616. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Osborne's plantation wharf was a tobacco inspection station and local shipping center. Thomas Jefferson, grandfather of the ...

Silk Culture at Ebenezer

Silk culture began at Ebenezer in 1736, when each Salzburger was presented with a mulberry tree and two were instructed in the art of reeling. Two machines were soon in operation in Mr. Bolzius' yard near

the church, and in ...

Old Negro Burial Ground

The land beyond this tunnel was once part of a cemetery for slaves and poor free blacks. The exact size and shape is unknown as is the number of persons once interred. What happened to their remains is a mystery ...

Bradley Clinic

Dedicated as the

Bradley Clinic

on

22 September 1995

in honor of

Pharmacist's Mate Second Class

John H. Bradley

United States Navy

who served with honor and distinction in the Second Battalion, Twenty-Eighth Marines, Fifth Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, during World War II. He and five ...