Site of the Home and Private School of Adiel Sherwood

Site of the home and private school of Adiel Sherwood 1832-1836

Author, Educator, Gospel Minister, Founder state Temperance Society, Citizen of the Commonwealth for about thirty years.

Born Fort Edward, New York, Oct. 3, 1791

Died St. Louis, Missouri, Aug. 18, 1879

In 1828 ...

Seth Pomeroy & Jeremiah Drake

In this churchyard

or the adjoining old cemetery

is buried in an unknown grave

Seth Pomeroy

the first Commander of the American Army

As senior Brigadier General in February 1775

the churchyard and primarily the plot of

Jeremiah Drake

a ...

Second Baptist Church

On Green Square

Was founded December 26, 1802

by Rev. Henry Cunningham and

Twenty-five other Baptists.

General William T. Sherman and

Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton

met with the Negroes of this city

and the newly freed slaves at

Second Baptist Church when Savannah

surrendered to General Sherman ...

West Riding Hall / Polk Hall

(Left of Stairs)

West Riding Hall

Constructed 1908

Used as an indoor training arena by mounted troops, the Cavalry School, and the U.S. Olympic equestrian team and for horse shows and polo games until 1952

(Right of stairs)

Polk Hall

in memory of

James Hilliard Polk

General

United States ...

The Bulldozer Press

The earth-moving machine we call a "bulldozer" got its name from this type of press. This bulldozer press made by Williams and White, shapes and straightens pieces of metal.

Marker can be reached from Tredegar Street 0.1 miles from South 5th ...

Crisis in the Wilderness

A celebrated battlefield episode of the Civil War happened here at the Widow Tapp Field on the morning of May 6, 1864. The Army of Northern Virginia and its commander, R.E. Lee, face disaster on the Orange Plank Road as ...

Baldwin #7717 Steam Locomotive

[English]

Baldwin #7717 Steam Locomotive

This Baldwin 2-6-0 mogul steam engine – builders #7717 – road #6 – 36" gauge locomotive, was built for the North Western Coal & Navigation Co. in 1885. It was originally used to carry bituminous coal on ...

Old Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church

Dedicated Year 1767

Services in this building were attended by General George Washington at times when he stayed nearby. This building was also used as an Army Hospital by French General Rochambeau before and after The Battle of Yorktown Virginia 1781-2.

This ...

City Point and Hopewell

City Point is five miles northeast. There Governor Sir Thomas Dale made a settlement in 1613. In April, 1781, the British General Phillips landed there. Grant had his base of operations there in the siege of Petersburg, 1864-1865. Lincoln was ...

Main Confederate Line

The Confederate Left

Wing, part of a long

hook-shaped line de-

signed to trap the

Union forces, extended

across the road here

on March 19. This

sector, occupied by

Maj. Gen. R. F. Hoke’s

Division, was evacuated

on March 20. ...