Westminster Hall & Burying Ground:

Where Baltimore's History Rests in Peace

Welcome to Westminster Burying Ground, one of Baltimore's oldest graveyards and the burial place of Edgar Allan Poe. This introduction is the first of many interpretive signs describing Westminster's origins and significance, and some ...

Georgetown - Pride of the Sierra / Growlersburg / E Clampus Vitu

Georgetown

Pride of the Sierras

Georgetown was founded in 1849 by George Phipps, a member of a party of sailors prospecting for gold, who first pitched his tent near the head of what is now known as Empire Canyon. George's town quickly ...

Locomotive Club of Richmond

In 1852, Joseph and Elizabeth Tyree owned this 400 acre tract of land known as "Woodstock." After changing hands several times, the Locomotive Club of Richmond purchased 208 acres of the property and built this clubhouse in 1925. Through the ...

Four Mile Creek Baptist Church

The Baptist Church of Christ on Four Mile Creek was constituted at Clayton Springs on the 5th of August, 1781. In 1828, church members moved the meeting house four miles west to its present location. In the fall of 1864, ...

Robert S. Duncanson

The first African American artist to achieve international acclaim, painter Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872) was born in New York and settled in Cincinnati in 1840. He pursued his artistic career during a time of tremendous racial prejudice and was acknowledged ...

Seven Days Battles

Glendale (Frayser’s Farm)

This was the extreme left of the Union line at Glendale, and was held by Hooker’s Division. When McCall (just to the north) was broken, Hooker, supported by Burns’s brigade, drove the Confederates back. In the night the ...

Williamsburgh

In remembrance of Williamsburgh District Patriots whose efforts helped create for us a new nation 1776 ~ 1976

Marker is on West Main Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bullis House

Official Historical Medallion - Texas Historical Commission

Completed in 1909 for Gen. John Lampham Bullis, this Neo-Classical Revival Residence was designed by San Antonio architect Harvey Page. A native of New York, Bullis spent much of his career on the ...

Birthplace of Alexander Hamilton Stephens

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"Little Alec,” Vice-President of the Confederacy, was born nearby in a log cabin Feb. 11, 1812, son of Andrew B. & Margaret Grier Stephens, a poor farm family. At his parents’ death he was educated by an uncle, Gen. A. ...

Seven Days Battles

Malvern Hill

Here Lee met Longstreet and Jackson in the morning of July 1, 1862. D. H. Hill reported the strength of the Union position on Malvern Hill; but Lee, having cause to believe the Unionists were weakening, prepared to attack. ...