St. Philips Church

Anglican, built under act of 1751. Graves of Governors Arthur Dobbs and Benjamin Smith and U.S. Justice Alfred Moore. Ruins 2 mi. S.E.

Marker is at the intersection of Plantation Road and Orton Road, on the left when traveling south on ...

General Cleburne’s Proposal to Arm Slaves

Here on January 2, 1864, Gen. Patrick Cleburne proposed arming slaves in exchange for their freedom to alleviate the manpower shortage facing the Confederacy. Almost all the other generals present opposed the idea of black Confederate soldiers because it violated ...

Willis Church Parsonage

The Confederates Move Toward Malvern Hill

Frustrated by his failure at Glendale, Robert E. Lee gathered his army on July 1, 1862, for a final effort to destroy the Union army. But on this day, unlike his previous efforts during the ...

601 Pennsylvania Avenue

On this site in 1814, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was first sung in public. The most famous of several hotels on this block was Brown's Marble Hotel (1851-1935), an innovative Greek Revival landmark, where John Tyler and Abraham Lincoln were guests. ...

Atchison WWI Factory Supported Freedom

Atchison County Historic Site

At this site Atchison Leather Products operated a grease factory that filled a vital need to keep the world free. Before World War I the only factory producing a certain grease needed in munitions production and packing ...

The Chesapeake Bay : History Happened Here

Ironclad Revolution

In 1861, the Confederate navy converted the hulk of U.S.S. Merrimack into an ironclad, CSS Virginia. On March 8, 1861, the Virginia sank one Union warship and drove another aground in flames before the north's ironclad, U.S.S. Monitor, crossed ...

91st Pennsylvania Infantry

3d Brigade, 2d Division, 5th Corps

91st Penna.

Infantry.

3d. Brig.

2d. Div.

5th Corps.

(Front "Door"):

July 2d moving at double-quick in the evening, the Regiment took position here and, having aided in repulsing the attack of the enemy upon this line, remained until the close ...

USS Scorpion (SSN-589)

USS Scorpion, a Skipjack class nuclear-powered attack submarine homeported in Norfolk, Virginia began a Mediterranean deployment in February 1968. The following May 22nd, while homeward bound from that deployment, she was lost with her entire crew of 99 brave men ...

William H. Howell, Ph.D.

1860-1945

Discoverer of the anticoagulant heparin.

First Professor of Physiology and early Dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Second director of the Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Marker is on West Lanvale Street, on the right when ...

The Deadly Sharpshooters

July 2, 1863 - Second Day

"The sharpshooters also began their deadly work, and the sharp zip - p-i-n-g-g-g - of the spiteful rifle ball, more dangerous than its larger brother, added to our perils."

Capt. G. Carter, U.S.A.

22nd Massachusetts Infantry

Little Round ...