23rd Battalion Virginia Infantry

C.S.A.

First stationed across the highway and on the extreme right of the Confederate line, the 23rd Battalion was later moved to support the 19th Va. Cavalry on the left flank. After an initial charge that temporarily halted the Federal advance, ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

The Field of the Heaviest Losses

This was approximately the farthest point gained and held by the Federals in their assaults of June 3, 1864 on the Confederate main line, 130 yards to the west. The heaviest losses sustained by the ...

Old Masonic Hall Erected 1860

Occupied by Eureka Lodge No. 16 F.A.M.

Much of the material and furnishings came to Auburn via Cape Horn S.A.

This plaque is dedicated to the Pioneers of Auburn by Auburn Parlor No. 232 Native Daughters of the Golden West

June 11, ...

3rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry

U.S.A.

The men of the 3rd WV fought their way up this ravine extending their line of battle along the mountainside until they joined with the 28th Ohio. Upon reaching the top, they helped break the Confederate line and pursued the ...

2nd West Virginia Mounted Infantry

U.S.A.

From this deep ravine, the 2nd WV battled its way to the mountaintop and was actively engaged in the fighting here at the Confederate center. Lieutenant J. B. Smith, the youngest officer in the regiment, was the first Federal soldier ...

Conoy Indian Town

From about 1718-1743, the Conoy Indian Tribe had its settlement slightly to the west of here. Closely related to the Nanticoke Tribe, with whom they eventually merged, the Conoy Indians gradually migrated into Pennsylvania from the area of Chesapeake Bay.

Marker ...

Stadt Huys (City Hall)

Birth of a City: Nieuw Amsterdam & Old New York

STADT HUYS (CITY HALL)

Location: Broad Street & Coenties Alley

Dutch Name: Langs Straet (Along the Shore)

New York’s first city government began meeting across the street in 1653, after the Dutch West India ...

St. Vincent`s Academy

The Convent and Academy of Saint Vincent dePaul was opened in June, 1845. Sisters of Mercy from Charleston, S.C., under the leadership of Mother Vincent Mahoney, began a boarding school, orphanage, day school and free school. St. Vincent`s Convent became ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[ Upper Marker ]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Wilbur Lee Mapp

1994

[ Main Marker ]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., planned to speak at Trinity AME Zion Church in Greensboro (a few blocks from here) on April 4, 1968. He canceled ...

Battlefield of Malvern Hill

Against the Federals holding this eminence, the Confederates delivered repeated assaults from the North on July 1, 1862 and lost about 5,000 men in the final, indecisive Battle of the Seven Days’ Campaign. That night McClellan withdrew to Harrison's Landing, ...