Beleaguered Town

Union soldiers and officers gazing upon Fredericksburg from this spot in 1862 saw many of the same landmarks visible today. The skyline of this peaceful river town, population 5,000 in 1860, is still dominated by the three steeples of City ...

Bur Oak

Quercus macrocarpa

This hardwood tree was part of the original grove that provided shelter, and wood for wagon repairs for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail.

The grove was a continuous strip of timber near one mile in width with a rich ...

The Embassy Bombings

Nairobi - Dar Es Salaam

Dedicated to the memory of all those who lost their lives in the embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - August 7, 1998.

[Outline map of Kenya and Tanzania on continent of Africa.]

Courtesy ...

John Basil Lamar

Col. John Basil Lamer, aide-de-camp of General Howell Cobb, his brother-in-law and close friend, was mortally wounded on September 14, 1862 while vainly trying to rally Cobb’s Brigade at Crampton’s Gap, Maryland. After temporary burial in Charles Town, Virginia, he ...

Hudson River Bridge Cornerstone

The North River Bridge Co.

Ground broken June 8th, 1895

First foundation masonry

laid June 18th, 1895

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Federal Building

[Right Plaque]:

This Building, the

Old Federal Building

has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the

U.S. Department of Interior

September 1973

• • •

Supervised by architect James Knox Taylor, this first federal building in Hattiesburg was completed in 1910 as the U.S. Post ...

Beyond the Big House

Slaves did virtually all the work that kept Chatham worthy of its widespread reputation for productivity, elegance, and hospitality. Before the Civil War, it’s unlikely that white residents ever amounted to more than 20 percent of Chatham’s population. At times ...

Cokesbury School

Short lived. The first Methodist school in North Carolina. Began about 1790. Was two miles east.

Marker is on Route 801 0.2 miles south of Cornatzer Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brewery

1864

This stone building was erected in 1864 by Frederick X. Hebrank. The basement housed a brewery which utilized a large well in the southwest corner. Family living quarters were on the first floor and the porch and second story were ...

Woodburn Historic House

Memories of the Plantation Era -- Owners and Tenants

Owners

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1822, made Woodburn Historic House his summer home around 1830. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Pinckney was drawn to the life ...