The Hennepin Canal

Hennepin Canal Parkway

Sign #1

Anatomy of a Canal:

Canals like the Hennepin are manmade waterways for boats to travel on. Many canals are built to make shortcuts between two existing bodies of water. The Hennepin Canal was built to carry ...

Signal Corps U.S.A.

Memorial Tablet

to the

Signal Corps U.S.A.

which

through valiant and heroic

service at

Little Round Top

July 2-4, 1863

and on many historic battle fields

throughout the war of 1861-1865

contributed so greatly to the

success of the Union Armies

this tablet is placed by their

surviving comrades in tribute

to their memory

Marker ...

Price's Headquarters

Wilson's Creek

Since August 6, 1861, thousands of Confederates had been camping in this area surrounding Major General Sterling Price's headquarters, waiting to attack the Union Army in Springfield. On the night of August 9, the long-awaited orders were issued.

Pickets were ...

1st Corps Headquarters

Army of the Potomac

Army of the Potomac

1st. Corps Headquarters

Major General

Abner Doubleday

July 1, 1863

Were located 230 yards S.E.

from here, near the pike

Marker is on Reynolds Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

XI Chapter Kappa Alpha Order

This fraternity was founded in 1865 by former confederate soldiers at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, during the administration of Robert E. Lee. XI Chapter was founded at Southwestern University on November 28, 1883, by Alexander S. Walker and Frederick ...

Old Dauphin County Prison

The second Dauphin County Prison stood on the southeast corner of Walnut and Court Streets. Completed in 1841, it replaced a log structure erected circa 1792 at the time that the first Dauphin County Courthouse was built directly behind this ...

Battleship Wisconsin: BB-9 and BB-64

in the Homeport of Naval History

Battleships bearing the name Wisconsin have graced the waters off Norfolk and Hampton Roads since the beginning of the twentieth century. Ornately designed to show-off the “Stars and Stripes” of the United States, the first ...

Railroad Produce Warehouse

Built in 1904 by William Pearce to provide storage space for a wholesale grocery company, this building was part of a larger industrial complex. A number of buildings were constructed along nearby railroad lines, including an ice plant and bottling ...

Pulaski Arkansas Battery

Wilson's Creek

In the opening moments of the battle, Union infantry swept back Southern cavalry, over-running two camps and topping the crest of Bloody Hill. Nothing stood in the Federals' way. At the bottom of Bloody Hill lay the main Southern ...

Grand Opera House

On the southeast corner of N. Third and Walnut Streets stood the Grand Opera House, erected in 1873 at a cost of $160,000, by the Masonic Fraternity and designed by architect Frank E. Davis. Serving also as the Harrisburg Masonic ...