Control of the Mechanicsburg Gap

Federal Battery E, 1st (West) Virginia Volunteer Artillery was assigned to the command at Fort Mill Ridge. The Battery was armed with six 3-inch rifled cannons. It is believed that two of these cannons were positioned in the central redoubt.

The ...

Confederates Trapped

Appomattox Court House Nat’l Hist Park

For most of the war, Lee and his army had tormented their Northern enemies – at Gaines’ Mill, Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville. But here, on April 9, 1865, the once-mighty Army of Northern Virginia found itself ...

Site of Hampton High School

1911 1954

Built 1911, by Town of Hampton.

Given to Hampton County 1925,

to become part of the county's

first public school system.

Closed 1954, upon consolidation

of district schools.

Building razed 1957.

This marker dedicated to our

school days, our teachers

and classmates.

Marker is on Mulberry Street W., on ...

The Weir - Pittsburg Coalfield

With the discovery of coal in Cherokee and Crawford Counties in the late 1860's, thousands came to work the mines. Some came from American towns and cities but most were immigrants from Europe. Over fifty nationalities settled in this area. ...

Looff Carousel

This is the oldest stander carousel in the world it was built by pioneer craftsman Charles I. D. Looff in 1895, and was installed in Slater park in 1910.

Open weekends April, May, June, September, October and daily in July and ...

Civil War Defenses

December 1862

In December of 1862, with a Federal attack imminent, General Robert E. Lee deployed his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia along a series of hills around the town of Fredericksburg. Brigadier General Cadmus M. Wilcox and his Alabama brigade ...

Restoration of Georgetown’s Call Boxes

Georgetown’s Call Box restoration project is part of a city-wide effort to rescue the District’s abandoned fire and police call boxes. Known as Art on Call, the project has identified more that 800 boxes for restoration. Neighborhood by neighborhood, ...

Carl Schurz Forest

Here the Ice Age Trail enters the forest honoring Carl Schurz. With John Muir, Increase Lapham, and Aldo Leopold, he belongs to the quartet of Great Wisconsin Conservationists memorialized by natural monuments left by the Wisconsin Glacier in northern Waukesha ...

Farmers & Drovers Bank

1893

Constructed by F. Roussillet, contractor, this building is an electic [sic] style two story brick with limestone Romanesque arches over half round stained glass windows, marble columns and a Bysantine [sic] dome. The adjacent business building was constructed in ...

Fifth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Fifth Army Corps.

Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter, Commanding.

September 15 and 16, 1862.

The Fifth Army Corps constituted the reserve of the Army of the Potomac. Its advance, Sykes' Division, reached this point in the afternoon of Sept. 15.

On the morning of ...