Camp Mabry

The original 85-acre tract (gift of Austin citizens in 1892) was the site of annual encampments for the Texas Volunteer Guard, an elite militia constituted in 1876. Because larger maneuver, parade, and drill areas were needed, the guardsmen worked actively ...

Buen Retiro

Colonial Revival mansion built 1902 by Austin financier Louis Nicholas Goldbeck. Sold 1908 to Texas Association of Phi Gamma Delta, national fraternity first chartered in Texas in 1856.

Housing Tau Deuteron Chapter, this has been campus residence of men who became ...

Sarah M. Kirby House

Sarah M. Kirby House Built in 1890

Marker can be reached from the intersection of W. Center Street and Blue Star Highway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Van Buskirk-Oakley House

Small wing built by Abraham J. Van Buskirk about 1820 from earlier c. 1789 house. Federal style main wing built c. 1832-34 for Fanning T. Oakley and wife Hetty Van Buskirk. Later owned by son Abraham V. B. Oakley and ...

Buddington-Benedict-Sheffield Compound

Albert and Rebecca Buddington built the first part of this compound as their home c. 1860. In 1921, it became the home of Dr. Harry Y. Benedict, a mathematician who served as University of Texas Professor and President. Delia Edwards, ...

Important Men of 206 High Street, Burlington

Three famous men once used this building

that stood at this site:

Samuel Jenings

Office of First Provincial Governor of West Jersey

1681 to 1684

Benjamin Franklin

Printed the first Colonial paper currency of New Jersey

1728

Isaac Collins

New Jersey Public Printer of currency, almanacs

and the first weekly ...

Boyd House

The Boyd House, first frame house in Buffalo County, was built just west of present-day Gibbon in 1864 by brothers James E. and Joseph Boyd. It was the family home of James and Ann Boyd and their children. The two ...

German Baptist Church of the Brethren

This building was constructed in 1898 by the German Baptist Church of the Brethren to serve as a house of worship. It was originally located on the southwest corner of ? Street and Avenue A in Kearney. This congregation used ...

Burk's Lock

1835-1873

The canal boat "Indiana" docked here on the evening of July 3, 1835, opening the Wabash and Erie canal to traffic from Fort Wayne to Huntington. This was the first section of the canal opened in Indiana. John Burk, for ...

Artillery Brigade

Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Col. Charles H. Tompkins

Mass. 1st Battery A, Six 12 pounder

Capt William H. McCartney

New York 1st Battery, Six 3 inch Rifles

Capt. Andrew Cowan

New York 3d Battery, Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Capt. William A. Harn

1st Rhode Island ...