General Patrick R. Cleburne

City Named for Texas Confederate General Patrick R. Cleburne

1828-1864

Born near Cork, Ireland came to U.S. 1849. Drug clerk in Ohio, became lawyer in Arkansas. Recruited 1st Arkansas Regt. for Confederacy. Elected colonel. Promoted brigadier general March 1862, made major general ...

Ebenezer Baptist Church

has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

May 5th 1977

National Park Service

United States Department of the Interior

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Ebenezer Baptist Church Heritage Sanctuary

407-413 Auburn Avenue

Ebenezer Baptist Church has been a spiritual, social, ...

Pawling Beekman Turnpike

Inc 1824. 4 mile toll road

between Nathan Millers and

Joseph Arnolds commerce

opened to pok. Abandoned 1906

Marker is at the intersection of Old Route 55 and Freedom Plains Road (New York Route 55), on the ...

Palmetto

Thinking that local Joshua trees were related to palm trees, the 1866 prospectors named the mining camp Palmetto. Although a local 12-stamp mill worked the silver ore, the town died for lack of profitable material. New discoveries in the late ...

Easternmost Point in the U.S.A.

West Quoddy Head

44°48"9'N 66°57"1'W

Erected by the WQHLKA Inc.

Spring 2005

with permission of the

Maine Department

of Conservation

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gold Point

Gold Point was initially called Lime Point for the lime deposits found in 1868. Processing difficulties in the 1880’s discouraged silver mining locally.

Goldfield Ore discoveries in 1902 stimulated area mining interest and high grade hornsilver was discovered here in 1908. ...

Camp Colt

The Tank Corps was new. There were no precedents except in basic training and I was the only officer in the command. Now I really began to learn about responsibility.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends

During World War ...

The Old Upper Road

Along the Old Upper Road

The Old Upper Road

In Washington’s diary it is documented the number of times he traveled this route & his visits to Col. Vanderburgh’s home on the Upper Road , which also served as a munitions depot. ...

"The Isolated and Advanced Position" of the 8th Ohio Infantry

"I received an order... to move my regiment...to the front of our position...and to hold my line to the last man."

Lt. Col. Franklin Sawyer, 8th Ohio

At 4:00 p.m. on July 2nd the 209 men of the 8th Ohio were ordered ...

Signs From The Past

Wilson's Creek

The surrounding young forest can tell us much. Agriculture has long dominated the landscape. Nearby, John Gibson's horsedrawn plow broke ground for an oat field. Later, tractors would shape and alter the countryside. In the course of this evolution ...