Wadboo Barony: Francis Marion’s Last Headquarters

Wadboo was a Native American name given to the enormous landholding of James Colleton, a son of Sir John Colleton, who was one of the original eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony. Called a barony according to the Proprietors’ ...

Bond County Veterans Memorial

Lest We Forget

This memorial is dedicated

to the men and women of

Bond County who served in

the Armed Forces of the

United States of America

Dedicated Nov. 11, 1997

In memory of those from

Bond County who gave their lives

while serving their country in

Korea

Thacker, Roy, Pvt, ...

The 14th Indiana Infantry

The 14th Indiana Infantry 1st Brigade

3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps Colonel William

Harrow commanding fought 70 yards east of

this position and parallel with this road

from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. September 17th, 1862

Officers and men engaged 320

officers killed 2, men killed ...

Snyder County

Formed March 2, 1855 out of Union County. The name honors Simon Snyder (Governor, 1808-17) who made his home in Selinsgrove. The county seat of Middleburg was laid out 1800, incorporated 1864. County was scene of the Penns Creek Massacre ...

Quinby Bridge & Shubrick’s Plantation: The Disastrous “Raid of t

In the summer of 1781, with the British hold on the interior of South Carolina significantly weakened, Continental commander Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Greene sent Brig. Gen. Thomas Sumter, with Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and Lt. Col. Henry “Light Horse Harry” ...

Hampton Roads

World’s Largest Natural Harbor

Preface: Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight ...

Weise & Bradford Store

1879

On this northwest corner of the square, the former Hotel Eureka (better known as the Franklin House) once stood. It served as the old stage coach house and was "the best house in town, two stories high, with a ...

Daley’s Scenic Park Street Improvenents

Bounded by Le Roy Avenue, La Loma Avenue, La Vereda Road and Hilgard Avenue

City of Berkeley Landmarks

designated in 1983

In the late 1890s a group of concerned women formed the Hillside Club to “encourage artistic homes built of materials complementing the ...

5th Maryland Infantry

Maryland

5th Md Infantry

3rd Max Weber's Brigade.

3rd French's Division.

2nd Sumner's Corps.

Advanced to the knoll

above the bloody lane.

300 feet in the rear of

of this marker. Loss. 43

killed 123 wounded.

The monument to the

Maryland troops is

near the Dunkard

Church.

Marker is on Richardson Avenue, on ...

The Indian Ladder Trail

The Indian Ladder Trail runs along the base of the cliff and was historically called the "Lower Bear Path." Here, you are halfway down the limestone cliff, where the Coeymans formation above meets the Manlius below. At the top of ...