Texan Santa Fe Expedition

A dramatic chapter in administration (1838-1841) of Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar. Aware of United State – Mexico commerce crossing Texas by the Santa Fe Trail near the Canadian River, President Lamar sought similar trade advantages for Texas.

He ...

Clinton Female Seminary

Clinton Female Seminary was incorporated on Dec. 15, 1821 by Act of Legislature signed by Gov. John Clark. Trustees were James Smith, Gustavus Hendrick, Samuel Lowther, Henry G. Lamar and Charles J. McDonald. This successful school under Rev. Thomas Bog ...

Lt. Col. Franks S. Adamo, M.D.

Bataan's Medical Hero

This distinguished native Tampan served with courage, honor and personal sacrifice as an army surgeon during WWII. He was captured and made a prisoner of war when the Japanese overran the Philippines. Afflicted with Beri-Beri and other diseases ...

The Federal Inn

1763 - 1814

in which

George Washington

while President of the United States

was an honored guest

October 1, 1794

Marker is on Penn Street, on the right when traveling west.

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After the Breakthrough: April 2, 1865

The Banks House

Following their breakthrough near the Boisseau and Hart Farms, Federal soldiers of Major General Horatio G. Wright’s Sixth Corps poured over the earthworks southwest of Petersburg and into the Confederate rear. Some Federals penetrated as far as a ...

Federal Inn

Site of Federal Inn, erected about 1754. George Washington, with military escort, was a guest here, October, 1794, when on his way to muster an armed force to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion.

Marker is at the intersection of Penn Street and ...

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery

This tablet erected by the

Maryland State Dental Association

marks the original site of the

Baltimore College of Dental Survery

Founded in the year 1840

the first dental college in the world.

Marker is on Hopkins Place, on the left ...

Field Fortifications

The Military Encampment

Pamplin Historical Park has created these replica earthworks to suggest how this area might have looked during the winter of 1864-65. Both armies at Petersburg constructed long lines of field fortifications. Engineer officers used standard manuals in ...

Courthouses of Hardin County

Hardin County was created in 1858. The official Hardin County building was probably a two-story log building that burned about 1886. Early county records were destroyed in the conflagration.

In 1887, architect Frank Smith of Beaumont designed a two-story ...

A Final Effort

Desperate to relieve the Union noose strangling Petersburg, on March 25, 1865, General Lee used pre-dawn darkness and stealth to pierce the Union Line here at Fort Steadman.

“We were very much elated at first, as we thought we had won ...