Historic Lake Pepin: Birthplace of Waterskiing

"I decided that if you could ski on snow, you could ski on water." In 1922, after first trying barrel staves, then snow skis, eighteen year old Ralph W. Samuelson succeeded in waterskiing on eight foot long pine boards, steamed ...

The First General Assembly of Virginia

In honour of

The First General Assembly

of Virginia,

here

on the thirtieth day of July A.D. 1916.

Summoned by Sir George Yeardley,

Governor General of Virginia,

under authority from the London Company, pursuant to the charter granted by King James I, was convened in the church ...

Signal Beacon and the “Old Sow”

1776

Here in the time of the American Revolution stood the Signal Beacon and by its side the cannon known as the “Old Sow” which in time of danger and invasion summoned the patriotic “Minute Men” of this vicinity to the ...

Battle of Springfield

At this site during the Battle of Springfield on June 23, 1780, the Americans, consisting of Continental Dragoons and the militia of this and surrounding neighborhoods, under Colonel “Light Horse” Harry Lee, Colonel Matthias Ogden, and Captain George Walker, encountered ...

Home of Robert Toombs

This was the home of Robert Toombs -- planter, lawyer, and distinguished Southern statesman. Born July 2, 1810, Robert Toombs was educated at Franklin College, Georgia, at Union College, New York, and at the University of Virginia. He was a ...

Third Brigade

First Division - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps First Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. Samuel K. Zook

Lieut. Col. John Fraser

52d. 57th. 66th. New York

140th. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 2 Arrived early in the morning and formed on right of Second Brigade on line ...

Last British Thrust into New Jersey

The last and deepest thrust towards Morristown and Washington’s supplies was stopped here by the American militia on June 25, 1780. After a punishing retreat, the British never entered New Jersey again in force.

Marker is on Millburn Avenue (County Route ...

‘Old Bell’ Tower

A modern rendition of Bank of Sturgeon Bay's original tower erected in 1900 on the NW corner of 3rd Ave. & Kentucky St., and removed in 1939. The original bell was reacquired with the cooperation of the First Baptist Church ...

St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church

Mother Church of Black Catholics in Georgia

In May 1874 two Benedictine priests arrived

in Savannah to work with the city's African-

American community, and constructed a

church four blocks north of here. In 1889

a new building was constructed at this site.

The Society of ...

Ireland's Brigade

Geary's Division

Ireland's Brigade

Geary's Division - Slocum's Corps

Col. David Ireland

November 24, 1863

60th New York - Col. Abel Godard.

78th New York - Lieut Col. Herbert von Hammerstein.

102d New York - Col. James C. Lane.

137th New York - Capt. Milo B. Eldredge.

149th New ...