Forrest and Capron

Nov. 24 1864

Forrest's cavalry, screening the advance of Stewart's Corps on Columbia met Capron's Cavalry Brigade in this locality and chased it back to Columbia, where the presence of Stanley's XXIII Corps behind entrenchments gave them protection and prevented Forrest ...

George Catlin

The great painter of Indian portraits was born here July 26 1796 of Connecticut ancestry. Until 1823 he practiced law here and nearby. He began painting Indian pictures six years later.

Marker is on South River Street near South Street, on ...

Warrick County Vietnam Veterans Memorial

[ Four Sides of Obelisk ]

Seals of U. S. Armed Services

[ Two Identical Plaques ]

Dedicated to all Vietnam Veterans

1981

Marker is on South 2nd Street north of West Locust Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Piney Grove

The Front Line and the Home Front

In Virginia, the “Home Front” and the “Front Line”

were often just miles apart during the Civil War. In places such as Charles City County families provided their men for troops and also lost the ...

Wood National Cemetery Civil War Memorial

In memory of

comrades buried

in this home cemetery

1861 - 1865

The Union Forever

N.W.B.N.H. for D.V.S.

Jan. 1903

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Abraham Lincoln Came Often to Boonville

While living with his father on a farm about seventeen miles from here, came often to Boonville to hear court trials and to borrow books from John A. Brackenridge.

From this corner Abraham Lincoln traveled North by ox-team on the Old ...

Hickory Run Boulder Field

Hickory Run State Park

Hickory Run Boulder Field

has been designated a

National Natural Landmark

This site possesses exceptional value as an illustration of the nations' natural heritage and contributes to a better understanding of the environment.

Marker can be reached from Pennsylvania Route 534. ...

Piney Grove and Southalls

During the 18th century this property was established as a Southall family seat. Notable family members include James Barrett Southall, owner of Williamsburg's Raleigh Tavern, Turner Southall, member of the committee to build Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Capitol, and historian Douglas ...

Wood National Cemetery Memorial Section

"The markers in this memorial area

honor veterans whose remains

have not been recovered or

identified, were buried at sea,

donated to science, or cremated

and the ashes scattered."

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H.M. Brig DeBraak

On May 25, 1798 at 4:00 pm, H.M. Brig DeBraak

capsized and sank off the coast of Cape

Henlopen, Delaware during a sudden squall.

This memorial honors the thirty-three members

of the eighty-five man crew who were lost

at sea.

James Drew Commander Thomas Burr ...