Gamble Mansion and Plantation

[Marker Front]:

At the close of the Seminole War in 1842, this frontier was opened to settlement. Major Robert Gamble and other sugar planters soon located along the rich Manatee River valley, and by 1845 a dozen plantations were producing for ...

Bottom's Bridge

On 20 May 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Union army crossed the Chickahominy River over Bottom's Bridge into Henrico County. Here Maj. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes's Federal corps advanced over the bridge unopposed. As McClellan's army advanced on Richmond, ...

Remembrance and Reunion

The two stone monuments you see here reflect the long-lasting grief - and the hopes - of the generation of Americans who survived the Civil War. After the war, young men whose lives had been forever changed by this battle ...

Historic Bell From St. Dominic's Church at Iowa Hill

Bell was originally erected

there in 1860. It was place

here in October 1988.

Marker is on Oak Street near Auburn Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Albuquerque

In 1706, New Mexico Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdes founded the new Villa de Alburquerque (now Albuquerque), which became the principal settlement of the Rio Abajo, or lower river district. Here, the Camino Real wound its way through a series ...

Founding Women of Albuquerque

(front)

In February 1706 several families participated in the founding of Albuquerque but the names of only 22 are preserved in the historical record. Within those families were many women honored as being founders of La Villa San Felipe de Alburquerque. ...

Frenchman Bay

Vessels of all types have plied the waters f Frenchman Bay for centuries. Five thousand years ago, indigenous people may have paddled dugout canoes into the bay to reach fishing grounds or hunt sea mammals and swordfish. More recently, Wabanaki ...

Seven Days Battles

Savage's Station

Here, facing west, stretched the Union line in the afternoon of June 29, 1862. Brook's brigade was south of the road with Gorman's and Burn's brigades to the north. In a furious conflict Burn's line was broken but was ...

Jones' Battalion, Reserve Artillery

C.S.A.

Jones' Battalion, Reserve Artillery,

Major H.P. Jones, Commanding.

Organization.

Morris (Virginia) Artillery, Orange (Virginia) Artillery,

Turner's (Virginia) Battery, Wimbish's (Virginia) Battery,

(September 17, 1862.)

Jones' artillery battalion occupied the ridge north of this point and was actively engaged early in the day, but was soon withdrawn ...

Loudoun Branch, Manassas Gap Railroad

The Virginia General Assembly approved plans for the Loudoun Branch (parts of which survive here) of the Manassas Gap Railroad on 8 March 1853, and construction soon began. The route extended 27 miles from just southwest of Chantilly on the ...