Kitchen and Servants Hall

Tudor Hall Plantation

The design of this building is typical of slave quarters built on Virginia plantations during the 1840s and 1850s. Each side provided space for one slave family, with a room downstairs for living and working and a loft ...

San Francisco Church and Convent

Here once stood the San Francisco Church and Convent. Built by the Franciscans who arrived in the Philippines in 1578. First church and convent dedicated to Our Lady of Angels (Nuestra Senora de los Angeles). Destroyed in 1583. A new ...

Milwaukee Street Bridge

One of the nation’s most innovative bridge designers of the 20th century, Daniel B. Luten, designed the Milwaukee Street Bridge. Constructed in 1930 by Eau Claire Engineering, the bridge was a rare example of a steel-reinforced, three span, open-spandrel, continuous ...

Confederate Monument

(Front face):To the Confederate soldiers of Colleton County, SC

To those who fought and lived

To those who fought and died

To those who gave much

And to those who gave all

(Rear face):

To the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Colleton County Who fought ...

First Kindergarten

The first kindergarten in the United States was founded by Margarethe Meyer Schurz in this building in 1856. Moved to the present site and restored in 1956 by the Watertown Historical Society.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Charles ...

Tudor Hall Barn

Tudor Hall Plantation

This building is a reproduction of a nineteenth-century barn located in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. Tidewater and Piedmont farmers constructed numerous small, inexpensive barns to support their work. Virginia’s mild climate made it unnecessary to keep livestock ...

Ringgold Light Artillery

First Defenders

To commemorate

the patriotism and promptitude

of the

Ringgold Light Artillery

of Reading, Pennsylvania,

which reported for duty at

Harrisburg, April 16, 1861,

arriving there first of the

Pennsylvania Companies;

and with the

Logan Guards of Lewistown,

Washington Artillerists of Pottsville

National Light Infantry of

Pottsville, and Allen Infantry

of Allentown,

entered the City ...

The Jesuit Compound

This block was occupied by the Jesuits upon their arrival in 1581 until their expulsion in 1768. The Church of Santa Ana (1587), Colegio Maximo de San Ignacio (1595), Colegio de San Jose (1601), and the first church and convent ...

Confederate Counterattack

After Union troops burned the railroad bridge they began to leave the field. The Confederates decided to re-cross the river by way of a wagon bridge one half mile above the railroad and counterattack the small Union rear guard.

The ...

Tudor Hall

Tudor Hall Plantation

William Boisseau, a tobacco farmer, constructed Tudor Hall around 1812. Originally two rooms wide and one room deep, this style of house was popular in Dinwiddie County during the late 1700s and early 1800s. In the 1850s Joseph ...