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 ...

Mother Francisca del Espiritu Santo

Francisca de Fuentes, was born to Don Simon de Fuentes and Ana Maria Tamayo del Castillo in the City of Manila in 1647. Widowed and childless herself after a brief marriage, she dedicated herself to helping the sick, the needy ...

Spanish War Veterans

1899-1902, Philippine Islands, Cuba, Porto Rico, USA, Presented by Auxiliary No. 6, Dec. 1932, United Spanish War Veterans Camp No. 18.

Marker is on 1st Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

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Plaza de España

Named Plaza de los Mártires de la Integridad Nacional in 1897 in memory of Spanish Soldier who died in the encounters of August 1896, was rebuilt by the Intramuros Administration and opened on July 1982.

Manuel C. Elizalde Jr. donated the ...

Longstreet Attacks at 4 p.m.

July 2, 1863 - Second Day

"General Longstreet was delayed by a force occupying the high, rocky hill on the enemy's extreme left...."

General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.

Commander, Army of Northern Virginia

After an early morning reconnaissance, General Lee made plans for the ...

Former New York State Champion Tree

Red and Silver Maple Hybrid

Acer rubrum x saccharinum

This just might be the oldest tree on campus. It is estimated

at 350+ years old. It has lived through drought, fire and being struck

by lightening. It is truly a survivor.

Marker is on Blithewood ...

Plaza Santo Tomas

Lot originally purchased by the Dominican Order in 1627 for their cemetery and garden. Bought by city government in 1861 as a public plaza. Given to the University of Santo Tomas in 1879. Bronze statue of U.S.T. founder Archbishop Miguel ...

Site of Stamping Mill

Stamping Mill

Built on Green Limb Branch

near here.

Locally called

"Tunking Mill"

from sound of blows

of heavy hammers.

Marker is on Carranza Road 1.5 miles south of Forked Neck Road/Bozarthtown Road, on the left when traveling south.

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5th Corps, 2nd Division Position

U.S.A.

On the afternoon of September 15, 1862, the two regular brigades of Sykes' Division, Fifth Army Corps went into position a few feet west of this road and parallel to it, where they remained until the morning of the 19th. ...

Wildwood Park

Inspired by 'City Beautiful' advocates Horace McFarland and Mira Lloyd Dock, Wildwood Park opened its first trails in 1907. The largest of several Harrisburg parks designed in 1901 by leading horticulturist Warren Manning, it was part of a nationwide movement ...