This Gun Was Used

To fire the first salute

(October 18th, 1850)

on the arrival of the news

in California

proclaiming

its admission to the union.

Remounted for the City of Watsonville, March 22, 1922 by the Watsonville Parlor, No, 65, Native Sons of the Golden West

Tablet placed by Historic ...

St. Florian Historic District

In 1872, Father A. J. Houser, Director of the Homestead Society of Cincinnati, Ohio founded St. Florian. He subdivided the land for German immigrants who became independent landowners, built homes and reared their families. Many of the descendants from that ...

Jack London Historical State Park

This is the "House of Happy Walls", built by Charmian K. London in 1919 in memory of her husband, Jack London, renowned author. Here are housed many of his works and the collection gathered in their travels throughout the world. ...

Broad Street Market

The Broad Street Market consists of the oldest continuously operated market houses in the United States. By the advent of the Civil War, Harrisburg began to develop north of North Street onto the newly subdivided lands of William Verbeke, John ...

Historic Midtown Market District

Just prior to the Civil War, Harrisburg's northern development reached only as far as North Street, although its northern boundary extended to Herr Street under an annexation to the original Borough in 1838. In 1860, Harrisburg was incorporated as a ...

Governor Hugh McVay Home Site and Cemetery

McVay (1766~1851), South Carolina native, built a three room log house at head of Cox's Creek about 1818. Community later called Mars Hill. He was a member of Mississippi Territorial Legislature, delegate to convention of 1819 which framed Alabama's first ...

142d Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):142d

Pennsylvania

Infantry

1st Brigade

3rd Division

1st Corps

(Back Left of Cross):

Present at Gettysburg 336 Officers & Men

Killed & died of wounds 4 officers 27 men

Wounded 10 officers 100 men

Captured or missing 2 officers 68 men

Total loss 211

(Back Right of Cross):Total enrollment ...

4th and 12th U.S. Infantry

U.S.A.

At 10 A.M., September 16, 1862, four companies of the Fourth United States Infantry crossed the stone bridge over the Antietam at this point and took position behind the rock ledge and barn on the left of the road and ...

First Battle of Deep Bottom

On the night of 26-27 July 1864, a Union battle group led by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock crossed the James River on pontoon bridges a mile south. Hancock intended to attack Confederate defenses below Richmond while the primary Federal ...

Windsor Hotel

The Old Market Historic Walking Tour

The Windsor Hotel, designed in the Italianate style, was constructed in two phases – the east wing was completed in 1885, and an addition to the west was finished by 1887. It was designed to ...