Booth Building

This building was the home of the Booth Company, a wholesale grocery business and its founder Newton Booth, lawyer, writer, lecturer, and politician. Booth served as State Senator 1862-1863, and lived here while Governor of California 1871-1875 and United States ...

Heard's Fort

(Early Georgia Capital)

Heard’s Fort was designated the Seat of Government for Georgia on February 3, 1780. The Executive Council met and transacted the affairs of the State in this temporary Capital until early 1781. This designation was made by the ...

"Dat De Shpot, Sergent!"

March 8, 1862 - Morning

I saw General Sigel sight one piece...and send a shot at the [rebel] guns that had driven us back...It went tearing in among the men and horses, killing and wounding both, and then exploded in one ...

Retreat and Counterattack – 1776

General George Washington, after losing New York to the British, led his rebel army in retreat through New Jersey and on Sunday, December 8, 1776 crossed the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. He commandeered every available boat along the river so ...

Battery D, 1st New York Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade, Third Corps

(Front):Battery D

1st N.Y.

Light Artillery,

Artillery Brig. Third Corps.

(Back):This Battery (Winslow's)

held this position during

the afternoon of July 2d 1863.

Casualties:

10 wounded, 8 missing.

Mustered in Sept. 6, 1861.

Engaged in 32 battles,

Mustered out June 16, 1865.

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the ...

In Memory of the Soldiers, Both Confederate and Union

In Memory of,

the soldiers, both Confederate

and Union, who died here

at the Exchange Hotel

used during the Civil War as the

General Receiving Hospital.

Gordonsville, VA

1861 –– 1865

Marker can be reached from South Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United States

On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga citizen, John Thomas ...

In This Plaza Were Enacted

A.D. 1706

By Governor and Captain General Don Francisco Cuervo Y. Valdez ceremonies incident to the founding of the Villa of Albuquerque named after the Spanish Viceroy Don Francisco Fernandez De La Cueva Enriquez Duke of Albuquerque

Marker can be reached from ...

Union Army Enters Richmond

Here Maj. Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, commander of the Army of the James, entered and took possession of Richmond at 8:15 A.M. on 3 April 1865 after receiving the surrender of the confederate capital a few miles east. The first units ...

Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge / Bridging The Black Warrior

(Front):Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge3 April 1865 - Brig Gen John T. Croxton’s Cavalry Brigade departed camp at Johnson’s Ferry (Old Lock 17 area) to the Watermelon Road ending in Northport. As the Union troops entered Northport, the Methodist Church ...