The Decisive Day has come on which the fate of America depends..

Abigail Adams

This high ground of Breed's Hill bound the American colonies to the cause of independence. An open field once located here commanded this entire area. On the night of June 16, 1775, two month after the fighting at Lexington ...

Women's Rights National Historic Park - Hunt House

Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights.

Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started ...

Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House

Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights.

Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started ...

The Dempsey Building

William H. Dempsey built this building in 1896 at 41 Virginia Street. The two story building became a three story at the request of Seneca Masonic Lodge #113. The Lodge paid $2,500 for the third floor. This floor became the ...

Camp Ford Confederate Guards

The initial guards at the camp were local militia commanded by a regular officer, Captain S.M. Warner. With the

arrival of the Fordoche prisoners in October 1863, their numbers were inadequate, and an independent Cavalry

company, the Walter P. ...

African Americans at Camp Ford

The issues of African Americans in the military became a keystone of controversy involving the politics of prisoner

of war exchange. This issue did not start in the east, but in the theater of the Mississippi river, and Camp ...

Camp Ford - Naval Prisoners

Camp Ford had the distinction of having the most naval prisoners of any camp, North or South. There was no coordination between the branches, with each responsible for arranging the exchange of their men. By the fall of 1864, the ...

Camp Ford - Prisoners from Louisiana

In June 1863, CS General Richard Taylor commenced a campaign in South Louisiana that resulted in the capture of a number of Union troops in the Morgan City area. The enlisted men were paroled, but the officers were detained ...

Camp Ford - Establishment of the Camp

In March 1862, the movement of the Confederate army in Northern Arkansas to the Mississippi River left the northern frontier of the Trans-Mississippi virtually defenseless. Immediate efforts in Texas were made to raise new regiments for service in Arkansas. ...

"A state of perfect chaos"

William Bainbridge 1812

This 1833 view of Boston from the west end of the Navy Yard shows a harbor full of busy activity. The steeple of the Old North Church is still a prominent landmark.

[courtesy Library of Congress]

The Navy Yard in ...