Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22

Approximately 150 feet east stood the Hisylvania Coal Company Mine No. 22 tipple, in use from 1912 to 1925. The company name was derived from combining “Ohio” and “Pennsylvania,” home states of its founders. Coal came from the mine portal ...

46th Pennsylvania Infantry

46 Penn. Inf

Aug. 9, 1862

Charged across

wheat field against

Stonewall Jackson's

command.

Engaged, 504

Loss, 244

Marker can be reached from Dove Hill Road (Virginia Route 642), on the left.

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"Lokies" boost coal production ...

Made in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, this battery powered locomotive or "lokie," hauled cars full of anthracite coal from the mine's depths to the surface for processing in the coal breaker. "Lokies," replaced mules in the transportation of coal out of the ...

Short Pump

According to legend, just beyond the fork where the Deep Run Turnpike (now Broad Street Road) crossed Three Notched Road (now Three Chopt Road) stood a tavern which was built in 1815. Here, under the rickety old double porch of ...

The Rough Riders Passed By Here

On June 3, 1898, when Tampa was a cluster of old weather beaten houses floating on an ocean of sand, Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders disembarked from their seven train convoy in Ybor City, five miles from Tampa City ...

Deep Run Baptist Church

Founded here in 1742, Deep Run Baptist Church was established as an Episcopal chapel. Modeled after St. John's Church in Richmond, it was constructed in 1749 with wooden pegs and beams that remain part of the present structure. During the ...

St. Mary's Seminary Chapel

Has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark.

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America.

Marker can be reached from North Paca Street.

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Turnwold Plantation

Here, from 1862 to 1866, Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus", lived and worked as a printer's apprentice on what was probably the only newspaper ever printed on a Southern plantation, "The Countryman," a weekly newspaper edited and published ...

148th Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):148th Penna Infantry

1st Brig. 1st Div. 2d Corps.

(Left):The Regiment

engaged the enemy

on this position in

the afternoon of

July 2d 1863.

Present at Gettysburg 468 officers and men.

Killed and died of wounds 2 officers 25 men.

Wounded 5 officers 88 men

Captured or ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this “Corps of discovery” to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisiana territory. ...