First Court House and Prison Built in 1774

This tablet marks the site

of the

First Court House

and

Prison Built in 1774

In the prison yard around which

was a high stone wall were

The Pillory and Whipping Post

used in those days for the

punishment of criminals

Prior ...

Explosion At The Confederate Powder Works

In August, 1864, a violent explosion destroyed the granulating building of the Augusta Powder Works, one of the 28 buildings of the Confederacy’s massive gunpowder mill along Augusta Canal. Eight men and a boy died when 18,000 pounds of gunpowder ...

Daniel Boone Trail

Daniel Boone lived 18 miles S.W.

His Parents are buried 13 miles S.W.

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Here Passes the Trace of the

Old Plank Road, The Fayetteville

and Western, Chartered 1848

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This Memorail Erected by the Boone Trail Highway Assocation

Marker is on Waughtown Street just south ...

The Burying Ground – For Colored Paupers

The Garden of Lilies

This colored paupers’ cemetery was originally founded in 1895 by William Forrester as a part of Greenwood Memorial Cemetery in Henrico County. Many of the colored cemeteries in the city were overgrown due to lack of appropriate ...

Lewis and Clark at Kaw Point / Kaw Point

June 26-29, 1804

Side A: Lewis and Clark at Kaw Point

The Lewis and Clark expedition arrived here at Kaw Point on June 26, 1804, concluding another daily struggle against the powerful current of the Missouri River. Captain William Clark ...

Anderson Regional Airport

The first municipal airport in Anderson was just a grassy field located near where the Civic Center now stands. An historical marker notes the site where Amelia Earhart landed there on November 14, 1931.

In the early 1930s land was purchased ...

The Oblate Sisters of Providence

July 2, 1829

At this site, 610 George Street, under the leadership of foundress, Mother Mary Lange, four women took vows of consecrated chastity, evangelical poverty, and religious obedience. Thus began the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first Congregation of ...

General Edward Stevens

Here is buried General Edward Stevens, who served at Brandywine, Camden, Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown. He died on August 17, 1820.

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (Virginia Route 229) and Carpenter Drive, on the left when traveling ...

Third Brigade

Second Division - Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps Second Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. George S. Greene

60th. 78th. 102d. 137th. 149th. New York Infantry

July 1 Arrived about 5 p.m. and took position on the left of the First Corps on Cemetery ...

World War II Monument

1941 – 1942

For God and Country

This tablet is erected in Honor of

The men and women of Belmar

Who answered their country's call

In World War II

And to the eternal memory of

The following comrades

Who made the supreme sacrifice

Frederick L. Abbott • Joseph J ...