Bethel A.M.E. Church

Berks County's oldest Black church building. Erected 1837 by free African Americans; became an Underground Railroad station for escaped slaves seeking freedom. Rebuilt 1867; remodeled 1889. Congregation, dating from 1822, moved to Windsor Street in 1974.

Marker is at the intersection ...

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 ...

West Battlefield Overlook

(Panels from Left to Right)

(First Panel):

At the time of the battle, Nancy Morton lived with her parents in the William Morton house west of this location. When the fighting intensified in the area, the Mortons and three other families scrambled ...

Timberswamp Farm

Capt. Geo. Winters Homestead

ca. 1848

National Register of Historic Places

Marker is on Jackson Valley Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Mahone’s Brigade

This stone marks the approximately the extreme right of Mahone’s Brigade Virginia Volunteers when it captured the Confederate Breastworks on the 30th of July, 1864.

Placed by the Petersburg Chapter U.D.C. November 1910.

Marker is on Siege Rd, on the right when ...

Battle of Griswoldville

On Nov. 22 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman’s army [US] marched southeast from the vicinity of Gray toward Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea. To protect the right against Wheeler’s ...

Lynn’s Bull Road

William Lynn completed his Bull Road past this site from Linn’s Valley across Greenhorn Mountain to Keyesville in 1856. This freight route was used until the opening of the McFarlane Toll Road through Glennville en route to the Kern River ...

James B. McCreary Hall of Justice

James Bennett McCreary

On August 31, 1975, James Bennett McCreary, a native of Madison County, was inaugurated governor of Kentucky. While advocating peace and reconciliation, his campaign had traded on his rank of lieutenant colonel in the Confederate cavalry of John ...

Birth of Naval Aviation

“The value of the aeroplane for the Navy is unquestioned.” – Eugene B. Ely

Naval aviation dates from November 14, 1910, when stunt pilot Eugene B. Ely coaxed a Curtiss “Pusher” biplane from the deck of the cruiser “Birmingham” in these ...

Battery 8 of the Dimmock Line

On June 15, 1864, after seizing Battery 5, Union troops swept southward along the Dimmock Line. Men of the 1st and 22nd Colored Troops captured Battery 8, overcoming heavy resistance from part of Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise’s Virginia brigade. ...