Dugan-Hollins Family Vault

This burial vault holds the remains of nine members of two prominent Baltimore families whose live were intertwined through business partnerships and marriage.

Cumberland Dugan (1747-1836), the patriarch, left Ireland at age 19, settling briefly in Roxbury, Massachusetts before coming ...

The Homestead

The Homestead was built between 1823 and 1826 for Dr. John Simpson Bratton and his wife Harriet Rainey Bratton, the second generation of the Bratton family to live at Brattonsville. Bricks for the chimneys were made on the plantation. The ...

Little Red Schoolhouse

The Little Red Schoolhouse was built 1930 adjacent to the Ray Street Elementary School (corner of Montlieu and N Hamilton Streets) to accommodate a growing student body. It was designed by local architect Louis Voorhees as a tribute to the ...

Second Infantry Division Memorial

[From 1936:]

The Second Division

To Our Honored Dead, 1917-1919

Toulon

Troyon

Bois de Belleau

Vaux

Soissons

Marache

St. Mihiel

Blanc Mont

Meuse-Argonne

The Rhine

[From 1962, west inner wing:]

Organized in France in October, 1917; original unit consisted of ...

Robert J Crawford

In memory of our brother Robert J Crawford April 1, 1939 - Sept. 11, 2001 and all our brother knights who perished on September 11 at the World Trade Center

Marker is at the intersection of Flatlands Avenue and E. 40th ...

Donnell -V.- State, 1852

Side one:

Luther Donnell was convicted in Decatur Circuit Court (1849) of aiding fugitive slaves, Caroline and her four children, to escape to Canada. In Donnell v. State, Indiana Supreme Court reversed the conviction, claiming that under U.S. Supreme Court decision ...

Devil's Den and the Slaughter Pen

July 2nd 1863 - Second Day

"Awful, awful rocks!!"

For weeks after the battle, a delirious Alabama soldier suffering from his wounds repeated these words

The labyrinth of boulders and crevices in front of you was known to local residents as "Devil's Den," ...

Fame, Fortune and Financial Scandal

The Calhoun-Buchanan vault holds the remains of 29 members of two of Baltimore's leading Scots-Irish Presbyterian families spanning five or six generations. The neo-classical granite vault is probably the work of Robert Mills (1781-1855), the architect of monuments to Washington ...

The Neighborhood

Prominent places in the colonial landscape

Accotink Village:

The town of Accotink was started as a 17th century meeting place. During the colonial period a gristmill and racetrack were located here.

Pohick Church:

Truro Parish was established in 1732 for Virginians north of the ...

Clintonville Academy

January 11, 1860

Chartered as Clintonville Male and Female Academy. Building erected 1860: occupied January, 1861. The first school in Coffee County to teach beyond the sixth grade. Clintonville, for many years, was recognized as the cultural and educational center of ...