The Wilderness of Spotsylvania County

The armies fought the Battle of Chancellorsville in the heart of a 70-square-mile region of tangled undergrowth known locally as the Wilderness. This inhospitable terrain added a new dimension of horror to the fighting on May 3. Fires erupted from ...

History of Greenville-Bond County

Illinois Confederacy Indians roamed this prairie land, rich in game, which became Illinois County of Virginia. Ceded in 1784 to the United States it was successively included in the Northwest, Indiana; and in 1809, Illinois Territory. Formed in 1817, Bond ...

Milwaukee Road Passenger Depot

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad…

later known as the Milwaukee Road came to Green Bay in 1873.

This depot was built in 1898 and was the only passenger depot located on the east side of the river. ...

Santa Anna's Surrender Ratified

Gen. Vicente Filasola, Second in Command of Mexican armies in Texas War for Independence, fled from area of his nation's defeat at San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. Filasola's aim was to go to Mexico with his army.

After he had ...

Johnston's Rear Guard Stops McPherson

May 16, 1864, Walker´s div. of Hardee´s A.C. [CS], having delayed McPherson´s troops (15th & 16th A.C.) [US], at Lay´s Ferry ( 3.25 mi. N.W.) the day before,

was joined here by 2 division ~ Bate´s and Cleburne’s [CS].

Deploying on both ...

Everett and Marie Glass House

William Wilson Wurster, Architect

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1995

The Glass House is considered one of the best residential works of Wurster, who was the founding dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. This simply detailed, shed roof house was ...

Buford Battleground

[Front]

In order that all may continue to share the sentiments of that group of patriotic citizens of Lancaster County who erected a monument here on June 2, 1860 the inscriptions of this memorial are the same as those on ...

The First Soldier to Fall

When General Robert E. Lee’s invading army overran the Union garrison at Winchester, Virginia, on June 15, 1863, elements of the 1st New York “Lincoln” Cavalry covered the retreat. Company C, under Captain William Boyd, continued to harass the Confederates ...

Christ Episcopal Church, Duanesburg New York

Built 1792 Consecrated 1793

by Bishop Samuel Provoost

A Glebe of 80 acres presented

by James Duane for rectory

Marker is at the intersection of Great Western Turnpike (U.S. 20) and Duanesburg Churches Road (County Route 127), on the right ...

The Port of Today

The Port of Green Bay...

is a vital part of our local economy, our history and our lives. It plays an important role in the transportation of goods and commodities that are critical to the economic health of the region. The ...