Battery G, 1st New York Light Artillery

Battery G

(Ames)

1st N.Y.L.A.

July 3rd 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Hancock Avenue and United States Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Hancock Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bethany Cemetery

This cemetery was established in the late 1800s when burial space set aside for African Americans in Austin's historic Oakwood Cemetery was no longer available. The oldest recorded burial is that of infant Hellen Moore in 1879. C. W. Jones ...

Dow's 6th Maine Battery

(Front):Dow's

6th Maine

Battery

(Left):McGilvery's Brigade.

Reserve Artillery.

(Right):Campaigns A.P.

1862.-1865.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Reverend Father William Corby, C.S.C.

Chaplain 88th Regiment New York Infantry

(Plaque at Statue Base)To the memory

of

Rev. Father William Corby, C.S.C.

Chaplain 88th Regiment New York Infantry

2nd Brigade 1st Division 2nd Corps

The Irish Brigade

July 2nd 1863

(Side Marker Stone):Reverend William E. Corby, C.S.C.

Congregation of Holy Cross

This memorial depicts ...

Barton Springs

Clear and icy, these springs over the years have drawn Indians, pioneers, and tourists to this spot. The waters are brought from the limestone strata to the surface by the Balcones Fault, which bisects Central Texas. Average flow is 27,000,000 ...

Petticoat Bridge Skirmish

December 23, 1776

On orders from General Washington to pull Hessian troops southward from positions of support near Trenton, 600 Americans, stationed at Mount Holly under Colonel Samuel Griffin, attacked a Hessian outpost here on December 21. When the 3,000 Hessians ...

North Branch Berkeley Public Library

James W. Plachek, Architect, 1936

City of Berkeley Landmark

Designated in 2001

North Branch Berkeley Public Library

James W. Plachek, Architect, 1936

North Branch Library is one of Berkeley’s many civic buildings by James Plachek, including the Central Library (1930), the Claremont Branch Library (1924), ...

Balcones Fault Aids Colonization of Texas

Curving through the center of Texas from Hill County south and west to Uvalde County is the rugged escarpment-fault called Balcones. The abundance of natural resources associated with this geologic formation affected the pattern of colonization in Texas. The numerous ...

Abingdon

First known as Wolf Hills, land was patented here by Dr. Thomas Walker in 1750. Black's Fort was built, 1776. The town of Abingdon was established in 1778 as the county seat of Washington County. A courthouse, built about 1800, ...

Joseph Baker

Born in Maine 1804. Died in Austin, Texas July 11, 1846. One of the founders of “The Telegraph and Texas Register” at San Felipe De Austin, October 10, 1835. A soldier at San Jacinto. First Chief Justice of Bexar County, ...