The Battle of Harrisonburg

On wooded Chestnut Ridge the evening of Friday, June 6, 1862, Pennsylvania Bucktails under Col. Kane were defeated in a hard fight with the 58th Va. under Col. Letcher and Gen. Turner Ashby and the 1st Md. under Col. Bradley ...

William B. Ide Adobe - 1 Mile Marker

Built about 1850 by General Ide who came to California with his family in 1845. Helped organize the revolt against the Mexican Mandate requiring Americans to leave California and was first and only President of the California Republic under Bear ...

Virginia Military Institute

A National Historic Landmark

The nation's first state military college, VMI was founded in 1839 on the concept of the citizen-soldier. The Corps of Cadets fought as a unit in the 1864 Battle of New Market. Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson and ...

The Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg

The bloodiest conflict of the War Between the States occurred September 17, 1862, a few miles from this point (turn left in the center of Boonsboro).

Marker is on South Main Street (Alternate U.S. 40) west of Rohresville Road (Maryland Route ...

The Woll Invasion

Mexico’s last invasion of the Republic of Texas alarmed San Antonio on Sept. 11, 1842, when Gen. Adrian Woll and 1300 troops struck the city from the west.

Awakened by booming cannon, 56 Texians (including judge, jurors, and citizens in town ...

William Morris Stewart Mansion

Built 1855 - 56

Exact replica of wife’s Ante-Bellum Colonial birthplace.

Only edifice of this type in California. Stewart, an early Nevada County District Attorney, joined 1859 Comstock silver rush. Led battle for statehood and became Nevada’s first U.S. Senator, served 29 ...

McCulloch’s Path

(Named for an early pioneer.) The first trail through The Glades passed near this point. George Washington on his visit here in September 1784, wrote of it: “McCulloch’s Path which owes its origin to buffaloes, being no other than their ...

General David E. Twiggs

Surrender of Federal Forces by

Brought about as Texas moved to expel 2600 Federal troops – a step necessary after secession. Frontier fighter Ben McCulloch with 400 volunteers forced surrender negotiations at headquarters of Gen. Twiggs a block and a half ...

Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church

First in America, org.1683

has been placed on the

National Register

Of

Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on W Market Street (Business U.S. 113), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Vulture Gold Mine

In 1863 Austrian Henry Wickenburg discovered gold, legend has it, while retrieving a vulture he had shot. The vulture mine went on to become one of Arizona's richest gold mines and sparked the development of Arizona and the city of ...