General von Steuben

Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Baron von Steuben was born September 17, 1730 in Magdeburg, Prussia (Germany) to a military family. Reared in the rigorous military school of Frederick the Great, von Steuben served with distinction in the Seven Years’ ...

Edmund Kirby Smith

May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893

He was a career United States Army officer and educator. He served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, notable for his command of the Trans-Mississippi Department of ...

Salt Lake Stock & Mining Exchange Building

Built 1909 of sandstone & brick.

Exchange organized 1888.

Played essential part in

development of nation’s

resources as financial center

for mining activities

of the west.

Marker can be reached from Exchange Place.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Vanderbilt University

An independent, privately supported university founded 1873 by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York shipping & railway magnate, who gave $1,000,000 to start the university & expressed his wish that it should "contribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between ...

Army of the Cumberland

June 24-26, 1863

Moving south about 3 mi. E., the XX Federal Corps (McCook) was stopped at Liberty Gap, 6 mi. S.E., by the 5th & 15th Arkansas Inf., of Liddell's Brigade, later reinforced by Cleburne's Division. With its 1st (Jeff ...

Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance

Ohio University

[Campus side of the marker]

In commemoration of the Bicentennial

of the

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Ohio University, the first public university established in the Old Northwest Territory, was founded on the principles of the ordinance.

[Street side of the marker]

Ohio University 1804

Class Gateway

Religion ...

Site of Gibbes House

On this corner stood the home of Dr. Robert W. Gibbes (1809-66) distinguished physician, scientist, historian, editor, antiquarian; Surgeon General of South Carolina 1861-65. The house with his notable library, art treasures and scientific collections was burned by Union troops ...

B-52 Crash Site

Cold War Veterans Memorial

On this spot on September 16, 1958, a U.S. Air force B-52D bomber crashed while on a Cold War training mission originating from Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine. Seven crewmen gave their lives for their country. ...

Kershaw's Brigade

McLaws's Division - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps McLaws's Division

Kershaw's Brigade

2d. 3d. 7th. 8th. 15th. Regiments

and 3d. Battalion

South Carolina Infantry

July 2 Arrived on the field at 3.30 p.m. Formed line and advanced about 4.30 o'clock. The 8th and 2d ...

Rebel's Rest

Here, before the War Between the States, stood the frame residence of Bishop Leonidas Polk of Louisiana, a principal founder of the University of the South. Here were built in 1866 the first two log cabins of postwar Sewanee by ...