Carter G. Woodson House

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark.

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America.

Marker is on Ninth Street, NW south of Q Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Second Line of the Confederate Defenses

This cannon

marks the location of

the Second Line of the

Confederate Defenses of Richmond

Placed in 1938 by the City of Richmond

at the request of the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

Marker is on Monument Avenue 0.1 miles west of Roseneath Road, in the median.

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Straus Building

Built 1924 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of N Old World 3rd Street and West Wisconsin Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

Birthplace of China-Burma-India Veterans Ass'n.

1948 - 1963

On this site, August 28, 1948 was held the 1st CBI National reunion of World War II veterans who organized the CBIVA

This tablet dedicated May 18, 1963

Marker is at the intersection of North Old World ...

The Navy Yard of the Confederate States

On the river shore just below here the Navy Yard of the Confederate States was located and the ships Fredericksburg and Virginia II were launched

This site is dedicated to that spot by the City of Richmond, 1916

Marker is at the ...

Potawatomi "Trail of Death"

Indiana to Kansas, September 4 - November 4, 1838

On September 5, 1838, nearly 850 Potawatomi Indians marched single file through Rochester on the forced removal from Indiana to Western Territory (Kansas). Three chiefs were transported in a jail wagon: ...

Father Petit and the Potawatomi 'Trail of Death'

Rev. Benjamin Marie Petit, of the City of Rennes, France, arrived as the Catholic missionary to the Potawatomi Indians in northern Indiana in November 1837. By June 1838, he had learned much of their difficult language and their culture, and ...

Soldiers and Sailors of the Confederacy

(Front):A

Memorial

to

the soldiers

and

Sailors

of the

Confederacy

(Back):Walter

Washington

Williams

Who was

recognized by

the Government

of the

United States

as the last

surviving

Confederate

veteran

died

1959

at the age

of

117 years

(Left Side):

South Carolina

Florida

Georgia

Texas

Arkansas

North Carolina

Kentucky

(Right Side):

Mississippi

Alabama

Louisiana

Virginia

Tennessee

Missouri

Maryland

(Around the Base):

Heroic defenders of their country * their fame shall be an echo and a light unto eternity

Marker is on South Confederate Avenue, ...

Mother Francisca del Espiritu Santo

Francisca de Fuentes, was born to Don Simon de Fuentes and Ana Maria Tamayo del Castillo in the City of Manila in 1647. Widowed and childless herself after a brief marriage, she dedicated herself to helping the sick, the needy ...

Getting Ready To Fight

March 6, 1862 - Late Afternoon

General Samuel Curtis had only 10,500 troops to hold back a Confederate army of more than 16,000 men moving toward him. Curtis had asked army headquarters in St. Louis for reinforcements. None could be sent.

At ...