Baseball

On June 19, 1846, the first match game of baseball was played here on the Elysian Fields between the Knickerbockers and the New Yorks. It is generally conceded that until this time, the game was not seriously regarded.

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Underground Mining in the Hibbing Area

In 1895 underground mining began in the Hibbing area following the discovery of iron ore. The Burt-Poole and Sellers mines were the first to ship that summer. Mining Captains, of Cornish decent, utilized their experience from the Vermillion Iron Range ...

B & O Depot

Built 1892, following the completion of railroad in 1887. Lost Creek grew to become largest shipping point for cattle in West Virginia in 1915 and on entire B & O system, east of Mississippi in 1923.

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Adobe House

Adobe was a common material used to construct buildings from the Spanish mission period of California history through the 1930s.

Adobe is a sun-dried brick made from soil or clay. This structure was built to resemble an adobe dwelling in Kern ...

Cunningham's Battery - Dance's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Artillery Reserve

Dance's Battalion Cunningham's Battery

The Powhatan Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

July 1 Reached the field in evening too late to take part in the Battle.

July 2 Early in the morning took position ...

The Attack Begins

The Breakthrough Trail

Major General Horatio G. Wright deployed the 14,000 attackers of his Sixth Corps in a wedge-shaped formation. Although the entire battle front extended for nearly a mile, the point of the wedge was here, manned by the Vermont ...

Brigadier General Montgomery D. Corse, CSA

Brigadier General

Montgomery D. Corse, CSA

Born here in 1816,

died Alexandria 1895.

Volunteer, Mexican War 1846-1848.

Prospector in California,

Commander, 17th Virginia

Infantry Regiment, CSA.

Post-war civic leader and banker.

Buried nearby in

St. Paul's Cemetery.

Erected by Samuel Cooper Chapter,

Military Order of the Stars and Bars.

June 1999

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Dance's Battalion - First Virginia Artillery

Artillery Reserve - Ewell's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Artillery Reserve

Dance's Battalion

First Virginia Artillery

Cunningham's, Smith's, Watson's, Griffin's

and Graham's Batteries

Four 20 pounder Parrotts, Four 10 pounder Parrotts

Ten 3 inch Rifles, Two Napoleons

July 1 The Battalion reached the field in evening too ...

Blunt's Attack

From this spot the observer is viewing the terrain over which General James C. Blunt's 1st Division advanced on the afternoon of December 7, 1862, to attack the Confederate left and relieve the pressure on General F.J. Herron's 2nd and ...

Wilson-Leonard Brushy Creek Burial Site

In this vicinity is a prehistoric archeological site discovered in 1973 by a team of Texas Highway Department archeologists. Scientific excavations have produced evidence that the site was a major camping ground for prehistoric peoples, particularly during the Archaic Period ...