The Cincinnati Observatory

"Lighthouse of the Sky"

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Prompted by response to his popular lectures, astronomer Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1809-1862) founded the Cincinnati Astronomical Society (CAS) in 1842. With CAS funding, Mitchel traveled to Munich, Bavaria, to acquire the optical elements for what became ...

Battle of Hanging Rock

Commemorating

Battle of Hanging Rock

June 21, 1864.

Marker is on Catawba Valley Drive (Virginia Route 311) north of North Electric Road (Virginia Route 419), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Beverly Bank

The Beverly Bank was founded in 1900 by Dr. Humboldt Yokum who served as the Bank president. Yokum was a prominent doctor and community leader. S.L. Baker was a director, and served two terms in the State Senate. Both men ...

The Chesapeake Bay : History Happened Here

Shields of the Republic

In World War II more than 700,000 American men and women went to the conflict through the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation. Over 900,000 more arrived, including the wounded, survivors of sea battles and prisoners of war. ...

Reynolds' Brigade - Buckner's Division.

Brig. Gen. A. W. Reynolds.

Reynolds' Brigade - Buckner's Division.

Brig. Gen. A. W. Reynolds.

Nov. 25, 1863.

58th North Carolina - Col. John B. Palmer.

60th North Carolina - Capt. James T. Weaver.

54th Virginia - Lieut. Col. John J. Wade

63rd Virginia - Maj.James M. ...

Barracks, School, Headquarters

This barracks was built for the enlisted men at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground. After the proving ground moved to Aberdeen, Maryland, in 1919, it became the Fort Hancock School and later Headquarters for the 7th Coast Artillery Regiment.

Sandy Hook ...

El Camino Real Bell

This commemorative bell celebrates a combined century of service by the California Federation of Women’s Clubs and California State Automobile Association including the establishment of bell markers along the historical El Camino Real.

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Bethany Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1786, Bethany Presbyterian Church was the first church in Greene County. Dr. Francis Cummins, Dr. Francis Goulding, and other great ministers preached here. In 1886, Dr. James Woodrow was tried for heresy here in the first “monkey trial” ...

Leadenhall Baptist Church

After the Civil War, a large number of black Baptists migrated to Baltimore. This church was organized in 1872 by black Baptists of the Sharp-Leadenhall area, with the help of the Maryland Baptist Union Association. It is the second oldest ...

Massenburg's Georgia Battery.

2 - 12 pdr. Napoleons; 2 - 10 pdr. Parrotts.

Massenburg's Georgia Battery.

2 - 12 pdr. Napoleons; 2 - 10 pdr. Parrotts.

Maj. Felix H. Robertson's Reserve Artillery.

Nov. 25, 1863, 4 p.m.

Capt. Thomas L. Massenburg, Commanding.

1st Lieut. J. F. Greer.

2d Lieut. George ...