Market Square (Marktplatz)

This Square, originally a two-block area which included what is now called the Courthouse Square, has been at the center of Fredericksburg since the city's founding in 1846. The area was still heavily forested when the town's Vereins Kirche was ...

Rochambeau’s Encampment

1781 – 1782

After crossing the Hudson,

Commander-in-chief of the

French army in America,

General Jean-Baptiste

Rochambeau, encamped here

with his 5000 troops en route

from Newport, R.I. to

Virginia. Joining with Gen.

Washington, the two armies

hurried to Yorktown and

forced the surrender of the

besieged British General

Cornwallis October 19, 1781.

This ...

Silas Baptist Church

1 mile west

Organized by 20 members of the Cooper's Run Church in 1800, with the help of Ambrose Dudley, George Eve and Augustine Eastin. They built at this site on land given, 1798, by Charles Smith, Sr. The log structure ...

A Renowned Piscator

Dr. James A. Henshall, 1836-1925, author Book of the Black Bass and others, brought fame to Kentucky's South Licking, Elkhorn, and Stoner streams. He came here to practice medicine. During Civil War healed wounds for men in Blue and Gray. ...

Pvt. James Daniel Gardner

Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient

36th U.S. Colored Troops

Sept. 16, 1839 - Sept. 29, 1905

Served during the Civil War as a private in

Company 1, 36th United States Colored Troops.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his

bravery at the ...

Indian Princess Pocahontas

1595 - 1616

of

Weromocomoco

Wicomico

Gloucester County

Virginia

Sculpture by Adolf Sehring

A.D.1994

Marker is at the intersection of Business US 17 and Belroi Road, in the median on Business US 17.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Campaign of 1781

The roads through Henrico County were important routes for the Revolutionary War campaign of 1781. To avoid British Gen. Charles Cornwallis's troops advancing from Petersburg, the Marquis de Lafayette left Richmond by 27 May and marched northward through Henrico. Cornwallis ...

Austin State Hospital

While Texas was a frontier state and psychiatry a pioneer venture, the Texas Legislature in 1856 created this hospital for the mentally ill; in 1925, named Austin State Hospital.

Oldest Texas mental hospital.

Construction began in 1857. The institution, then housed in ...

1933 Austin Public Library

Overlooking one of the city's four public squares platted in 1893, this site was obtained from the Texas Legislature in 1913 for a public library. Completed in 1933, this building represents the most prominent public work of Austin native Hugo ...

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

This seminary had its origins in the Austin School of Theology, begun in 1884 by the Rev. Dr. Richmond Kelley Smoot and the Rev. Dr. Robert Lewis Dabney to provide training for candidates for the Presbyterian ministry whom the founders ...