Batteries B and L, 2d U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Batteries B and L, 2d U.S. Artillery.

Captain Jas. M. Robertson, U.S.A., Commanding

(September 17, 1862.)

Horse Batteries B and L (Consolidated), 2nd U.S. Artillery, crossed the Antietam by the Middle Bridge, in the forenoon of September 17, and went into position on ...

Essex County Confederate Monument

Erected

To soldiers of Essex and those who fought with them.

They fought for the principles of state sovereignty

And in defense of their homes.

To maintain these rights the gallant sons of this

Gallant county marched gladly to the front and

Did their duty like ...

Standing Stone National Bank

Established 1989

Named after Lancaster's most famous landmark, Mt. Pleasant, once called Standing Stone by Native Americans

Courtesy hmdb.org

Prelude to the Crater

“The mine is all finished, the powder in, the fuse all ready. I hope that the attack will be successful, for if it is, we shall have Petersburg in our possession.”

- Col. Stephen M. Weld, 50th Massachusetts July 28, ...

Where “Ang Kalayaan” Was Printed

This house was occupied by Dr. Pio Valenzuela together with Ulpiano Fernandez and Faustino Duque, Filipino printers who turned out for Dr. Valenzuela and Emilio Jacinto 2,000 copies of the newspaper entitled “Ang Kalayaan,” giving Yokohama as the place of ...

Burial Place of Twenty-Nine Confederate Soldiers

Erected by the United States

to mark the burial place of

twenty-nine Confederate soldiers

who died at Fort McHenry, Maryland,

while prisoners of war,

and whose remains were there buried,

but subsequently removed to this section,

where the individual graves

Laura's Dugout Home on the Banks of Plum Creek

The Charles Ingalls Family's dugout home was located here in the 1870's. This depression is all that remains since the roof caved in years ago. The prairie grasses and flowers here grow much as they did in Laura's time, and ...

Rice Homestead

Built about 1790 by

Oliver Rice

a soldier of the American

Revolution, serving under

General Washington

Marker is on Riceville Road 0.2 miles south of Knoll Rd. - 2nd Ave. Ext..

Courtesy hmdb.org

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church was organized on this site in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Gadsden, Alabama

November 16, 1870

Bishop Robert Pain, presiding

The Centennial Convocation of the Conference was held here on November 16, 1970

Bishop ...

Pioneer Publisher and Printer David Ervin Lawhon

Born in Tennessee on June 15, 1811. While very young learned the printing trade and worked at it in some of the principal cities of the United States.

Came to Nacogdoches, Texas, in November, 1835, in answer to pleas for volunteers ...