The Pierce Manse

One tenth of a mile east of here stands the only house in Concord owned (1842-1848) by Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States. Removed to this site in 1971 from Montgomery Street, it was restored by the Pierce ...

Pioneer Mother Monument

People Of Kansas City

By

Howard Vanderslice

To Commemorate

The Pioneer Mother

Who With Unfaltering Trust

In God Suffered The Hardship

Of The Unknown West

To Prepare For Us A Homeland

Of Peace And Plenty

Alexander Phimister Proctor – Sculptor ...

The Battle of Fort Montgomery

To aid Lieutenant General John Burgoyne’s British army stalled at Saratoga, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton sailed from New York with 3,000 British, German, and Loyalist soldiers and a flotilla of warships. On the morning of October 7, 1777, Clinton ...

Site of The Battle of Dingle's Mill

This tablet marks

the site of the Battle

of Dingle's Mill

fought April 9, 1865

between

Potter's Brigade

and

the Reserve South

Carolina Malitia C.S.A.

Erected by

Dick Anderson

Chapter U.D.C.

(Lower stone marker text)

The adjacent marker was first placed on

the ...

The Markel Building

The Markel Corporation commissioned architect Haig Jamgochian, a Richmond native, to design their headquarters in 1962. The aluminum clad conical structure was inspired by a baked potatto wrapped in foil served to Jamgochian while attending an American Institute of Architect's ...

Waiting for the Battle that Never Came

A natural thoroughfare through the Appalachian Mountain barrier, Cumberland Gap assumed great strategic importance in the Civil War. Both sides sought to control the Gap. It changed hands three times, but no battles were fought. Troops garrisoned here, Union and ...

Fighting at the Totopotomoy

Polly Hundley’s Corner

This intersection was known as Polly Hundley’s Corner during the Civil War. The roads led to Atlee’s Station, the Pamunkey River, Mechanicsville and Hanover Courthouse. A sign here announced that it was only seven miles to Richmond and ...

To Honor the Men and Women of the City of Shelton

To Honor

The Men and Women of the City of Shelton

Who Served Their Country and In Memory of Those

Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice

Killed In Action

World War I

Arena, Thomas USA • Bernabeo, Joseph USA • ...

The Fighting Ends in Stalemate

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Stalemate

Two days of bitter fighting had left the bleak Wilderness landscape charred and smoking from fire. Corpses littered the contested ground, now scarred by miles of earth-and-log entrenchments. Unwilling to attack Lee's strong position, Grant ordered a night ...

Union Army's Crossing of the Pamunkey River

On 26 May 1864, following the engagements along the North Anna River, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan and two cavalry divisions to move southeastward to secure crossings on the Pamunkey River. The next ...