Site of Mission San Pedro

Y San Pablo De Bicuner

To protect the Anza Trail where it forded the Colorado River, the Spanish founded a pueblo and mission nearby on January 7, 1781. Threatened with the loss of their land, the Quechans (Yumas) attacked this strategic ...

Margaret Douglass

"I told the judge to do his duty and put me in prison at once, if he chose, for I would ask no favors at the hands of any man."

Margaret Douglass

Margaret Douglass, a white woman from Charleston, South Carolina, moved ...

Early Roads / One of the South's First Railroads 1832

Side A

Tennessee Street along the north side of the square was originally part of Gaines’ Trace, a horse path laid out in 1807 under the direction of Capt. Edmund Pendleton Gaines of the U. S. Army. From Melton’s Bluff on ...

50th Anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Normandy

1944 - 1994

This plaque is placed here to commemorate

the 50th anniversary of the Allied Invasion

of Normandy on D Day, 6th June 1944.

It is dedicated to the soldiers of the

First Hussars, to those who took part in the

assault, to those who ...

"Holy Roller"

Presented to the City of London

by 1st Hussars, 4th June 1950

in memory of the First Hussars who fell

in two World Wars

The only tank of 6th Canadian Armoured

Regiment (1st Hussars) to complete campaign

in North-West Europe

D-Day 6th June 1944

VE-Day 8th May 1945

Marker ...

125th Ohio Infantry.

Harker's Brig., Sheridan's Div., 4th Corps.

Col. Emerson Opdycke colonel of this regiment, being assigned to the command of half the brigade, Capt. Bates was given command of his regiment. It took part with its brigade in the preliminary movements of ...

The 1st Hussars

To the everlasting memory

of the members of

THE 1ST HUSSARS

both the living and the dead, who together with

other Canadian and Allied servicemen

participated in the glorious campaign of 1944-1945

that led to the liberation of the Netherlands.

Presented by:

The Grateful Dutch Canadians of London

May ...

American Legion - Post 58

Side A

On April 20, 1934, a temporary charter was issued for Gen. Joe Wheeler Post 58, Courtland, Alabama.

On November 12, 1946, a permanent charter was granted and the name changed to Wiley Horton Post 58 in honor of the ...

Rice House

Decision to Surrender

At 1:30 a.m., February 16, 1862, at a final council of war in the Rice house (originally located in front of you at the corner of Pillow and Petty streets) Confederate Generals Floyd, Pillow, and Buckner decided that ...

Prince George County / Sussex County

(Obverse)

Prince George County

Area 294 Square Miles

Formed in 1702 from Charles City, and named for Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne. The battles of the crater, 1864, and Fort Steadman, 1865, took place in this county.

(Reverse)

Sussex County

Area 515 Square ...