Southern Pacific Engine #2914

This locomotive, among the largest and most powerful on the Southern Pacific Railroad system, supported the growth and development of the San Joaquin Valley and the West.

Engine #2914, called a 4-8-0 because of its wheel configuration, is characteristic of the ...

Boyhood Home of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston

Born in Prince Edward Co. on 3 Feb. 1807, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, the son of Judge Peter Johnston, moved a mile north of here with his family in 1811. He attended Abingdon Male Academy and graduated from the U.S. Military ...

Reformed Dutch Church of Tappan

Organized 1694

Used as a military hospital and prison during the Revolution. The trials of Major John Andre as a spy, and of Joshua Heit Smith for treason, were held here in 1780.

Marker is at the intersection of Kings Highway and ...

Scottish Rite Temple

Built 1871-72 as an opera house by Austin Turn Verein, a German social society. Used for gymnastics, feasting and dancing, it was a social center for years.

Purchased in 1912 for Ben Hur Shrine temple and remodeled, blending southwest mission ...

Corporal Timothy Francis Ahearn

Corporal

Timothy Francis Ahearn

D-S-C

Company C 102 Us Infantry

Twenty Sixth Division

1898 – 1925

He Best Exemplified The

Spirit Of The Enlisted Men

Of The Yankee Division

[ north side ]

Near Verdun, France on October 27, 1918, after all the officers and sergeants of his ...

Camp Washington

Commemorating the establishing

of Camp Washington

by Governor Isaac I. Stevens

on the site

in front of this monument

where he and Gen'l then

Captain George B McClellan

and their military

and engineering forces met

and camped from

October 17th to 30th 1853

Marker is on Coulee Hite Road, on the ...

118th Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Front and on sides of Crown):Corn

Exchange

118th. Penna. Infantry

1st Brigade

1st Division

5th Corps

(Left):First Position

July 2d

July 3rd on

Big Round Top

Present at

Gettysburg 332

Killed 3 Wounded 19

Captured or missing 3

(Back):Recruited in

Philadelphia

Mustered in

Aug. 30, 1862

Mustered out

June 1, 1865.

(Right):Antietam to

Appomattox

Total enrollment

1500

Killed and mortally

wounded 136

Wounded ...

Little River Turnpike

The earliest private turnpike charter in Virginia was granted by the General Assembly to the Company of the Fairfax and Loudoun Turnpike Road in 1796. By 1806 the 34-mile-long road connected Alexandria with Aldie on the Little River in Loudoun ...

Paoli

A meander of the Sugar River, providing an excellent waterpower opportunity, prompted Peter W. Matts to acquire acreage in Montrose Township in 1846. He erected a sawmill in 1847, soon followed by his home, a tavern and a general store. ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Founded in 1870, the museum originally opened at 681 Fifth Avenue, moved to 128 West 14th Street in 1873, and to this site in 1880. The first building in Central Park faced west and was designed by Calvert Vaux and ...