Early Masonic Temple

Site of first Masonic Temple in northern Indiana. Of brick construction, cornerstone of two-story building was laid 1829 by General John Tipton, P.G.M.,completed 1837. Ground floor used for school purposes many years. Razed 1895.

Marker is at the intersection of North ...

Powder Magazine

Fort Brady – 1864

Directly in front of you is the site of a powder magazine, where ammunition and gunpowder were stored.

An explosion there could obliterate the fort. To bomb-proof the magazine, structural timbers were covered with a thick layer of ...

Fifth Army Corps

First Battalion Fourteenth U.S. Infantry

U.S.A.

Fifth Army Corps.

First Battalion (8 Cos) Fourteenth U.S. Infantry.

Capt. W. Harvey Brown, 14th U.S. Infantry, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

At 3 p.m. the First Battalion, Fourteenth U.S. Infantry crossed the Antietam at the Middle Bridge advanced on this ...

Richard Ratcliffe's Mount Vinyard Plantation

On the knoll 70 yards NE of this marker, stood the home of Richard Ratcliffe (1751-1825). The mansion was on his 600-acre "Mount Vineyard," part of a 1714 land grant of 1,930 acres to George Mason II. In 1798 Ratcliffe ...

Pickens County

Created December 5, 1853, and named for General Andrew Pickens of Revolutionary fame. The first settlements sprang up along the Old Federal Road which followed in general the route of the highway through Tate, Jasper and Talking Rock. Mount Oglethorpe ...

Pabst Mine "H" Shaft

On Friday, September 24th, 1926, a disaster occurred at the Pabst Mine. "G" Shaft, located approximately 300 yards southwest of this spot, collapsed. 3 men riding in the cage freefell 2,600 feet. 43 men were trapped on the 8th level, ...

Birthplace of the Confederate Battle Flag

During the First Battle of Manassas, amid the smoke of combat, troops found it difficult to distinguish between Union and Confederate flags. Generals P.G.T. Beauregard, Joseph E. Johnston and Quartermaster General William L. Cabell met near here in September 1861 ...

Louis Hennepin 1626 - c. 1705

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Born and educated in Belgium, Hennepin was ordained a Recollet (Franciscan) friar in France. He was an adventurer at heart and undertook priestly duties in several European countries before being sent to New France as ...

Prince George Court House Road

This old road was used by both Confederate and Union Armies in the fighting around Petersburg.

Marker can be reached from Siege Road 1.6 miles south of East Washington Street (Virginia Route 36).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Uprooted by War

“Every tree, stump, and fence has disappeared… What was once verdant is now a wasteland of dust and dirt.”

- John Haley, 17th Maine Infantry January 26, 1865

The gentle depression in front of you is the only vestige of the ...