Inner Line of Defence

This cannon marks the spot

where in 1861 a large earthwork

of the Inner Line of Defence

was constructed

Placed in 1915 by the City of Richmond

at the request of the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

Marker is on Monument Avenue 0.1 miles west of Strawberry Street, ...

Ruins of Pon Pon Chapel of Ease

St. Bartholomew’s Parish

1706 Parish Established

Rev. Nathaniel Osborn, Missionary of the S.P.G. arrived

1715 Parish devastated by Yemassee, Indians

1725 Act of General Assembly provided for a Chapel of Ease here to be used as a Parish Church until one should be built

1737 ...

Birthplace of China-Burma-India Veterans Ass'n.

1948 - 1963

On this site, August 28, 1948 was held the 1st CBI National reunion of World War II veterans who organized the CBIVA

This tablet dedicated May 18, 1963

Marker is at the intersection of North Old World ...

The Navy Yard of the Confederate States

On the river shore just below here the Navy Yard of the Confederate States was located and the ships Fredericksburg and Virginia II were launched

This site is dedicated to that spot by the City of Richmond, 1916

Marker is at the ...

Potawatomi "Trail of Death"

Indiana to Kansas, September 4 - November 4, 1838

On September 5, 1838, nearly 850 Potawatomi Indians marched single file through Rochester on the forced removal from Indiana to Western Territory (Kansas). Three chiefs were transported in a jail wagon: ...

Volunteer Firemen

In recognition

of more than a hundred

years of faithful,

unselfish and often heroic

service rendered by the

Volunteer Firemen

of the City of Reading, Pa.

———

“Greater love hath no man than

this: that a man lay down his

life for his fellow-man.”

———

Erected September 2, 1901.

Rainbow [Fire Company] No. ...

First National Bank of Bartlett

Jesse L. Bailey (1848-1926) and his son Charles C. Bailey (1871-1947) opened a private bank in conjunction with a mercantile business in Bartlett in 1898. J. L. Bailey and Son, Bankers, was replaced by the First National Bank of Bartlett ...

Richmond Defences

Battery 16 of the Inner Line

On this spot stood Battery 16 of the Inner Line of the Richmond Defences, constructed in 1862-64. This Battery, which was never assailed by the Federals, was one seventeen placed between the Confederate capital and ...

12th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

(Front Inscription):OHIO

12th Infantry

Commanded by

Col. Carr B. White

Hugh Ewings (1st) Brigade

Kanawha Division

Ninth Army Corps

Army of the Potomac

(Rear Inscription):

This Regiment advanced to this place on the afternoon of September 17, 1862. It moved from extreme left of Union line of battle exposed ...

Father Petit and the Potawatomi 'Trail of Death'

Rev. Benjamin Marie Petit, of the City of Rennes, France, arrived as the Catholic missionary to the Potawatomi Indians in northern Indiana in November 1837. By June 1838, he had learned much of their difficult language and their culture, and ...