Don’t kill them with kindness

Feeding wild animals on the mountain does more harm than good.

You can help the Peak’s wild animals by not feeding them. “Can one chip hurt?” you may wonder. Yes it can, when multiplied by 2,000 visitors per summer day. Then ...

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Cold Harbor

Near this stone rest the remains of

889 Union Soldiers,

gathered from the Battle Fields of

Mechanicsville, Savage-Station, Gaines-Mills,

And the vicinity of

Cold-Harbor.

Erected by Congress

Year of our Lord 1877, and in the 101st year of the

Independence of the United States of America.

Marker can ...

The Meade Pyramid

The Battle of Fredericksburg

Usually thought of as a Union monument, the large pyramid in front of you was in fact erected by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. In 1897, the society contacted Virginia railroad executives asking them to erect markers ...

Stricken Down in the Performance of Duty

In tribute to Major Joseph Hamilton Daviess, Grand Master of Masons in Kentucky, who fell in battle here, and to the many Freemasons of General Harrison's command whose valor is held in grateful remembrance.

Marker is on Battleground Avenue near North ...

The Hermitage

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Home of Andrew Jackson (1767~1845), Major General in the Army, hero of the Battle of New Orleans, and seventh President of the United States. It was originally built in 1819; partially burned in 1834, during Jackson's second term, replaced by ...

America the Beautiful

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the inspiration of “America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates, 1859-1929. Following her visit to this Summit on July 22, 1893. Dedicated July 4, 1993 by Hank Brown, United States Senator. Lon Young, Colorado Springs ...

A Look From The Top

Pikes Peak

You are at 13,380 feet, 4,078 meters

Feeling Spacey? In the United States you can not get much closer to outer space than this! Are you dizzy and short of breath? No wonder, you are 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above ...

Cannon from the U.S.S. Constitution

This Cannon from The

U.S.S. Constitution

"Old Ironsides" Was

Presented to the Sandy

Bay Historical Society

By Descendants of The

First Settler, Richard

Tarr, and Dedicated

August 20, 1931

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Mt. Pleasant Street (Massachusetts Route 127A) and Broadway, on the right when ...

Site of the Myers-Bogert Grist Mill

Abraham Myers established a grist mill at this site on the Hackensack River prior to 1765. Inherited by son John who operated the mill until his death in 1829, it was continued by his son-in-law James Bogert. Long known as ...

The Young Wo Memorial Site

1883 – 1925

This sacred ground is one of three revered cemeteries * Young Wo, Sam Yup-Sze Yup, and Hakka * that served the Chinese community once located just north of here. One cemetery vanished during gold dredging activites; Only the ...