Albuquerque Electric Streetcar System

An electric streetcar system in Albuquerque was constructed in 1904 to replace the horse-drawn trolleys. Two streetcar companies were established, one for the downtown Albuquerque and Old Town Plaza areas (the Albuquerque Traction Company) and another for the Huning Highlands-University ...

First Volunteer Brigade

Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Volunteer Brigade

Lieut. Col. Freeman McGilvery

5th Mass. Battery E (10th New York Attached)

Capt. Charles A. PhillipsJuly 2d Engaged on Third Corps line on the Wheatfield Road.

9th Mass. Battery

Capt. John Bigelow, Lieut. Richard S. MiltonJuly 2d ...

The Bacon-Fraser House

The Bacon-Fraser House was built on a 23 acre tract situated on the eastern boundary of the town of Hinesville in 1839 by Mary Jane Bacon, widow of Major John Bacon. The house has been owned and lived in by ...

Battleship Maine Memorial

This gun came off the Battleship Maine

The Sinking of the Maine resulted in the Spanish American War

1898

Marker is on Gervais Street (U.S. 1 - 378) near Sumter Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Madeline M. Breckinridge / Kentucky Suffrage Leader

Madeline M. Breckinridge

This descendant of Henry Clay and Ephraim McDowell was born 1872 in Franklin Co.; grew up at "Ashland," Clay's home; and married Desha Breckinridge, editor of Lexington Herald. Ill with tuberculosis, she promoted its treatment and cure; advanced ...

Ashland / Clay & Abraham Lincoln

Ashland

Home of Henry Clay, born April 12, 1777, died June 29, 1852. Served as a state legislator, US rep. & senator, house speaker, secretary of state. He ran for president in 1824, 1832, & 1844. Also an attorney, he ...

Barr Mansion

Built in 1898 for cotton merchant William Braxton Barr (1864-1902) and his wife, Matilda (Tilly) Birdwell (1868-1951), this home was designed by Austin architect Charles Page. Barr named the surrounding community after his grandfather Capt. Erasmus Sprinkle (1813-1906), with whom ...

Robert E. Lee Memorial Highway

Erected 1938

Committee

Mrs. Louis LeVander Walden, Chairman

Mrs. D. McK. Winter · Mrs. Eugene R. Buckingham

Mrs. J. Robt. Martin · Mrs. D. L. Husbands

This marker donated by the City of Columbia

Marker is on Gervais Street (U.S. 1-378), on the right when traveling ...

Stuart's Ride Around McClellan Begins

Here at Elmont (known as Kilby's Station during the Civil War), Confederate Brig. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart assembled the last of his 1,200 cavalrymen and began his ride around Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac ...

Battle of Tarawa Memorial

U.S. Marines War Memorial

Marker front, upper plaque:

“Follow Me”

2nd Marine Division

United States Marine Corps

Battle of Tarawa

November 20, 1943

To our fellow Marines who gave their all!

The world is free because of you!

God rest your souls

1,113 killed 2,290 wounded

The Central Pacfic spearhead

To world ...