The Stoneman Raid

In July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman’s army [US] closed in on Atlanta. Finding its fortifications “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest,” he sought to force its fall by sending Maj. Gen. George Stoneman, with three ...

They Passed This Way

Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

"Long time we travel on way to new land.... Womens cry... Children cry and men cry...but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep on go towards West. Many days pass and people ...

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery

This tablet erected by the

Maryland State Dental Association

marks the original site of the

Baltimore College of Dental Survery

Founded in the year 1840

the first dental college in the world.

Marker is on Hopkins Place, on the left ...

Field Fortifications

The Military Encampment

Pamplin Historical Park has created these replica earthworks to suggest how this area might have looked during the winter of 1864-65. Both armies at Petersburg constructed long lines of field fortifications. Engineer officers used standard manuals in ...

Courthouses of Hardin County

Hardin County was created in 1858. The official Hardin County building was probably a two-story log building that burned about 1886. Early county records were destroyed in the conflagration.

In 1887, architect Frank Smith of Beaumont designed a two-story ...

Oakwood Cemetery Confederate Section

After the First Battle of Manassas, Richmond appropriated this approximately 7.5 - acre lot on 12 Aug. 1861 for burial of Confederate war dead. These Soldiers from every Southern state either died in Richmond's military hospitals, such as Chimborazo, or ...

Construction of Fort Mill Ridge

On March 16, 1863, Col. Campbell ordered his command to move their encampment from Romney to the fields adjacent to Mill Creek immediately west of Mill Ridge. Sheltered between the mountain to the west and the ridge, the camp was ...

West Battlefield Overlook

(Panels from Left to Right)

(First Panel):

At the time of the battle, Nancy Morton lived with her parents in the William Morton house west of this location. When the fighting intensified in the area, the Mortons and three other families scrambled ...

Oceola / Patapsco Dead

[Grave Marker]:

Oceola

Patriot and Warrior

Died at Fort Moultrie

January 30th 1838

[Historical Marker]:

A Seminole Leader

Perhaps Fort Moultrie's most celebrated resident was Osceola, famed Seminole leader who led his people in their fight to remain in Florida ...

Third Lake

Lake Monona: Place

During Madison's first two decades, this body of water was named Third Lake. Lake Kegonsa, the first lake surveyed in 1834, was called First Lake. The city later created a new name for Third Lake: Monona, mistakenly thought ...