First Presbyterian Ordination in Georgia

In the shade of a giant poplar tree which stood 200 feet East of this spot, on the 22nd of July, 1790, the Rev. John Springer was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and installed Pastor of Smyrna, Providence and Washington ...

Fredericksburg Battlefield

Before you looms Marye's Heights, a key point in the two major Civil War battles. At the base of the heights, bordered by a stone wall, lies the Sunken Road. In December 1862 Confederate troops standing in the road repelled ...

First Brigade

Third Division - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps Third Division

First Brigade

Col. William McCandless

30th. 31st. 35th. 42d. Pennsylvania Infantry

(1st. (9 Cos.) 2d. 6th. 13th. Reserves)

July 2 Moved with the Division from the Baltimore Pike near Rock Creek late in the ...

Railroad Scale House and Telephone Booth

Railroad yards are highly specialized facilities consisting of engine maintenance buildings, fueling areas, track and switching areas and material storage yards.

This scale house was used in the Santa Fe Railroad switchyard in Bakersfield. A scale located adjacent to the building ...

Central Presbyterian Church

This congregation traces its roots to October 13, 1839, when Austin’s first Presbyterian worship service was held at Bullock’s Hotel. Present that day was builder Abner Cook, elder in the first Presbyterian church organized in Austin. He helped acquire this ...

Zimmerman Bandstand

Charles A. Zimmerman

USNA Band Master

1887 - 1916

Composer or "Anchors Aweigh"

Marker is on Blake Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Augusta County World War I Memorial Tablet

In Honor Of The Men And Women Of Staunton And Augusta County Who Served Their Country In The World War 1914-1918

The Unreturning Brave… They Give New Splendor to The Dead

[Roll of the Dead follows]

The Right Is More Precious Than Peace

Erected ...

Randerson-Lundell Building

Cornelius Randerson erected a one-story structure here in 1896 to house a grocery, feed, and wagon yard. John and Claus Lundell purchased the building in 1898 and in 1910 a second floor was added to board customers overnight. It remained ...

Del Valle Army Air Base

(Bergstrom Air Force Base)

Following the U.S. entry into World War II, the Army Air Corps established a base here in the Del Valle community on land once a part of the Santiago del Valle Mexican land grant. The City of ...

Bohls House

Gottlieb William Bohls (1878-1961), the oldest of Heinrich and Julie Schroeder Bohls’ ten children, was born on his family’s farm near this site. In 1906, G.W. married Bertha Timmerman (1883-1967), and five years later they purchased a 95-acre farm on ...