Annapolis: Capital of Commerce

In the decades before the American Revolution, Annapolis was the customs port for the upper Bay western shore. Ships clearing in and out paid duties and fees to the local naval officer. With good shipyards (including Ship Carpenters Lot north ...

Virgil Allen Howard

Virgil Allen Howard, who was born in South Carolina in 1859, came to Alabama in 1884 seeking employment with the Alabama Waterworks. He and Ollie Grace Hogan were married on July 15, 1903 and made their first home in Gardendale ...

Mohave Center Plaza of Valor

"O Lord, thou givest us everything at the price of an effort."

Leonardo Da Vinci

1452-1519

We remember

those who gave their

lives in the Holocaust of

July 5, 1973, in Kingman

John O. Campbell • Allan Hanson • Christopher G Sanders • William L Casson • ...

Historic Traveler's Rest

Historic Traveler’s Rest was built upon land granted to Major Jesse Walton in 1775. Walton, a Revolutionary soldier and political leader, was killed by Indians near here in 1789. The Walton family sold the land to James Rutherford Wyly who ...

Field Hospitals - Eleventh Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Eleventh corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Eleventh Corps were established July 1st at the Spangler House two hundred and thirty yards west of this point. Many of the wounded of this Corps were ...

Sir Nathaniel Johnson

Governor of South Carolina

Under his direction, Charleston was fortified, thereby making it one of three walled cities in North America, after Quebec, Canada and St. Augustine, Florida. As commander in chief of the armed forces, he successfully defended Charleston ...

Jackson's Headquarters

John B. White House

(Preface): On January 1, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson led four brigades west from Winchester, Va., to secure Romney in the fertile South Branch Valley on the North Western Turnpike. He attacked and occupied Bath ...

New Jersey Building

New Jersey Building

at Centennial

Exposition of 1876

was re-erected and

stood on this site

from 1877 until

about 1900

Marker is on Kings Highway (New Jersey Route 41), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Milford Station

Lee Avoids A Trap

Unable to crack Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s strongly fortified lines at Spotsylvania Court House, Union Gen. Grant ordered Gen. Winfield Hancock’s Second Corps to cross the Mattaponi River here at Milford Station and threaten the Confederate ...

DeWitt Williams Bridge

Named in honor

of

St. Stephen Native

Teacher and Principal

For Over 30 Years

Member

St. Stephen Town Council

1970-1979

Mayor Pro Tem

1974-1979

9th District member

S.C. Highway Commission

1972-1982

Member

House of Representatives

1983- (1996)

Dedicated in 1983

Marker is on State Road 45, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org