War Correspondents

Memorial Arch

Speed - Heed

Sept. 14 - 62 - 96

To the Army Correspondents

and Artists 1861-65

Whose toils cheered the fireside

Educated provinces of rustics into

a bright nation of readers

and gave incentive to narrate

distant wars and explore dark lands.

Erected by ...

Confederate Memorial Day

First Decoration, or Memorial Day, was observed in Kingston in late April of 1865, and has been a continuous observance here since that day, the only such record held by any community in this Nation. The first Memorial, or Decoration ...

Site of 1896 Van Zandt County Courthouse

In 1894, the Van Zandt County Commissioners Court approved construction of a new brick courthouse at this site. Built between 1894 and 1896, it replaced a frame courthouse that had served the county since shortly after the Civil War. The ...

To Commemorate The Wabash and Erie Canal

Which Operated 1841 - - 1872

Between Toledo, Ohio, and Evansville, Indiana.

And which, through Lafayette

paralleled the Wabash River,

crossing Main Street at

the East end of the bridge.

Marker is on Main Street west of North 4th Street, on the left when ...

Tribune Building

On May 31, 1889, George T. Swank, editor and publisher of the Johnstown Tribune, was preparing the weekly issue of the paper on the second floor of this building. The rising waters outside drew him to the office windows to ...

Regulators of Goliad County

When the Civil War ended in April 1865, many Texans returned to find their farms and ranches neglected, their cattle running wild and unbranded. The Federal troops sent to occupy Texas in June 1865 could not control the widespread cattle ...

1st Regiment Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteer Infantry

(Front):1st Reg't Eastern Shore

Maryland Vol. Infantry

Col. Jas. Wallace.

Lockwood's Independent Brig.

12th Corps.

Maryland's Tribute to her Loyal Sons

(Back):

Five companies held the works in front of this stone on the morning of July 3d 1863, relieving other troops and remaining until about noon ...

Confederate Memorial Pyramid

[South side]:

Numini et Patri ae Asto

[West side]:

Erected by the Holly-Wood Memorial Association

A.D. 1869

[North side]:

Memoria in Aeterna

[East side]:

To the Confederate Dead

Marker is on Hollywood Cemetery Access Road near South Cherry Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Spirit of the American Doughboy

Belmar World War I Memorial

Dedicated

in honor of those who

entered the service

of their country

from

Belmar, New Jersey

and

in memory of those

who gave their lives

in

the World War.

Presented by

The citizens of Belmar, ...

Old Westham Bridge

The road ahead once led to a stone and steel bridge that connected the 20th century community of Southampton behind you with the colonial village of Westham on the north shore. Prior to its construction, the closest car link between ...