Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck

Three miles to the east on September 23, 1696, the British barkentine Reformation foundered off Jupiter Island. The 24 survivors included a party of Quakers bound from Jamaica to Pennsylvania. Leader of the Quakers was Jonathan Dickinson who described the ...

Mountain Charlie Road

In 1858 the Santa Cruz Turnpike Company awarded a contract in the amount of $6000 to Charles Henry “Mountain Charlie” McKiernan and Hiram Scott for the construction of a road. The road from the Scott house, located in what is ...

Confederate Cemetery

Fallen Heroes of Laurel Hill

Within this fenced burial ground lie Confederate soldiers who died at Laurel Hill. Their number is unknown. Inscribed headboards once marked the graves.

During the Civil War, disease killed more men than bullets. One soldier reported 14 ...

Patrick's Brigade

First Army Corps

U.S.A.

Patrick's Brigade,

First Army Corps.

On the night of September 16, 1862, Patrick's Brigade of Doubleday's Division bivouacked in line of battle on the east side of this road, facing west.

This tablet marks the left of the brigade line, which ...

The Arcade Bar

1914 This is the approximate year that this structure was rebuilt to be the Arcade Bar. During Prohibition a soda and candy shop operated for a handful of years here. In the early 1940’s the building was converted to the ...

“First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry”

They Fought Like Tigers

The 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry fought and won the Battle of Island Mound, also known as The Battle at Fort Toothman on October 28 & 29, 1862 in Charlotte Township approx. 7.5 miles southwest of Butler. ...

Thomas A. Edison Industries

Edison National Historic Site, NJ

Thomas Edison was not just an inventor – he was a businessman running an industrial empire. Around the laboratory, Edison built large factories where thousands of employees mass-produced his inventions for the public. Edison understood the ...

Dodge's 16th A.C. Camp on Nancy's Creek

July 17, 1864. The march of the corps S. from the road-fork at Providence Church (Dunwoody) was opposed by Col. Geo. G. Dibrell's brigade of Wheeler's cav. [CS]. After a sharp skirmish, the 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry drove Dibrell across ...

Oak Ridge Institute

First building erected 1851-52. Opened during academic year 1852-53. Since 1929 Oak Ridge Military Institute.

Marker is on Oak Ridge Road 0.3 miles east of Route 68, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Davis

Union Stronghold

After four days of unsuccessful trying to capture Petersburg by direct assault on June 15-18, 1864, Gen. U.S. Grant’s Union army began siege operations against the city. Grant’s immediate objective was to cut one of Gen. Robert E. ...