The Battle Opens

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

By mid-afternoon on June 1, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant massed 45,000 Federals near Old Cold Harbor, 800 yards east of here. At 5:00 p.m. he ordered an attack, hoping to split Lee’s army into two ...

Lewis & Clark Campsite

The Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in this area July 2, 1804 opposite the head of Bear Medicine Island (later Kickapoo Island) and replaced a broken mast with a cut cottonwood. They noted across the river remains of the ...

Historic Pughsville Neighborhood

Pughsville was one of Winter Haven's earliest neighborhoods, populated predominately by African Americans. These individuals cleared land and settled in what is now the southwest section of the city. For many decades, Pughsville remained a vibrant and thriving community. Pughsville ...

Lower Pontalba Building

[Logo of the Orleans Parish Landmarks Commission]

Erected 1850 - 1851

by Micaela Almonster Baroness De Pontalba

working first with James Gallier, architect,

and then with Henry Howard, architect.

Samuel Stewart, builder.

Bequeathed by William Ratcliffe Irby to the ...

Tupper & Reed Building

William Raymond Yelland, Architect; 1925

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1984

John Tupper and Lawrence Reed constructed this building for their music store, which they had established in Berkeley in 1906. University of California art professor Eugen Neuhaus complimented ...

Second Army Corps

(First Tablet):U.S.A.

Second Army Corps.

Major General E.V. Sumner, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

At daybreak of the 17th the three divisions of the 2d Corps were east of the Antietam: Sedgwick's Division moved, crossed the Antietam at Pry's Ford and, advancing through the East ...

An Active Port for 300 Years

The Port of Baltimore

Proximity to the Chesapeake Bay has been the driving force in Baltimore's eminence in commerce and transportation. But the story of Baltimore's port is actually older than Baltimore itself. In 1706 - two decades before the founding ...

Post Theater

Soldiers could catch the latest films of the day at the Post Theater, which seated 300. The average ticket price in the 1930s and 1940s was ten cents.

Fort Hancock was in operation from 1895 to 1974.

Marker is on Kessler ...

Garrett and Sons / Cargill-Wright Company

Garrett and Sons:

Joseph Simpson Garrett, a whiskey, tobacco, and groceries merchant, constructed this building in 1883 for his business, Garrett and Sons. This wholesale business was regarded as the first of its kind in Columbus. Garrett served as Columbus postmaster ...

Savannah's Irish and Robert Emmet Park

Once known as the Strand and later as Irish Green because of its proximity to the Irish residents of Savannah's Old Fort neighborhood, this park was renamed in 1902 for the Irish patriot Robert Emmet (1778-1803) to commemorate the centennial ...