Site of Booker T. Washington School

With overcrowded buildings at the African American school in southwestern Bartlett, the Bartlett trustees bought four buildings from Camp Swift in Bastrop to enlarge the facilities. A bond issue passed in 1948, and plans began for a U-shaped building. Otto ...

Fifth Company Battalion Washington Artillery

Cobb's Artillery Battalion

Fifth Company Battalion Washington Artillery

Four 12-PDR. Napoleons, Two James Rifles

Capt. Robert Cobb's Artillery Battalion.

Breckinridge's (Bate's) Div. Breckinridge's Corps.

Capt. C.H. Slocomb, Commanding,

1st Lieut. W.C.D. Vaught, 2d Lieut. A.J. Leverich.

1st Lieut. J.A. Chalaron, 2d Lieut. C.G. Johnsen.

Nov. 25th, 1863, 4 ...

Major General George Washington Goethals' Home

1888~1907

The great engineering genius of the Panama Canal lived at this site from 1888 until 1907.

As a young lieutenant, Gothals was sent to Florence to speed up the work on the Muscle Shoals Canal Project which effectively by~passed the serious ...

Fort Washington

Constructed November 1775 by the

Continental Army under

General George Washington

This fort was used during the

Siege of Boston

and helped force its

evacuation by the British

Marker is on Waverly Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Ardenwood Historic Farm / George Washington Patterson Ranch

This Property

The

George Washington

Patterson Ranch

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

November 29, 1985

Marker can be reached from Ardenwood Boulevard near California Highway 84.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Washington County C. S. A.

Washington county was the most populous in the state during the Civil War. It served as a center for production, warehousing, transportation, communications, and had a large quartermaster depot. Local wartime factories made spinning jennies, lumber, pots, kettles, wagons, and ...

Washington Street Methodist Church

A church was built here between 1803 and 1805; another church, erected 1832, was burned by Union troops in 1865 and reconstructed in 1866 of salvaged brick and clay mortar. Present church dedicated 1875. Bishop Wm. Capers (1790-1855), founder of ...

Defenses of Washington

Fort Willard Park

After Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861 the District of Columbia was on the dangerous border between the divided states. Because of the city’s importance, the Union Army immediately occupied Northern Virginia, which allowed ...

Washington's Southern Tour

Near here stood Mulberry Grove, plantation home of General Nathanael Greene and Catherine Littlefield Greene. President George Washington twice visited the widowed Mrs. Greene at Mulberry Grove during the Southern tour of 1791. Traveling downriver from

Purrysburg, South Carolina to ...

Washington's Southern Tour

President Washington was a guest Apr. 24-25, 1791, at the Quince home which stood 2 blocks W.

Marker is at the intersection of Dock Street and North 3rd Street (U.S. 74), on the right when traveling west on Dock Street.

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