Fighting on the Evening of May 5, 1864

Confederate General Leroy A. Stafford of Louisiana fell mortally wounded in this vicinity during the afternoon fighting. General Ewell, however, continued to reinforce this line, extending it farther to the north, your left. When the Federals attempted to outflank Ewell's ...

The Stamm House

The Stamm House, built in 1847, was an early inn and provisions center for the travelers of the federal military road. The bygone scene saw stage-coaches, wagons of settlers and traders, and native Americans from nearby lakeside encampments. Later it ...

Society of The Cincinnati Memorial

Erected By

The Society of The Cincinnati

In the State of Connecticut

In Memory Of

Captain Judah Alden • Captain Samuel Allyn • Captain Simeon Allyn • Ensign Daniel Avery • Lieutenant Eienezer Avery • Captain Elijah Avery • Captain Esisa Avery • Captain ...

The Culpeper Mine Road

The road trace in front of you is the Culpeper Mine Road, typical of the woods trails that composed the primitive transportation network in the Wilderness. Even a path like this possessed military significance, and Confederate troops from the famous ...

The Honorable Mary Coon Walters / Chief Justice Pamela B. Minzne

Women of the Judiciary

[Side A:]

The Honorable Mary Coons Walters

(1922 - 2001)

Ms. Walters, who was a transport pilot during World War II, was the only woman in her UNM law school class when she graduated at age ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Founded in 1870, the museum originally opened at 681 Fifth Avenue, moved to 128 West 14th Street in 1873, and to this site in 1880. The first building in Central Park faced west and was designed by Calvert Vaux and ...

St. Martin’s Evangelical Lutheran Church

This property, once situated just outside capitol square at 106 East Peach Street (Later 13th), was the original location of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church (“Die Deutsche Evangelish Lutherische Kirche”). Pastor Henry Merz (1842-1928), a missionary for the first Evangelical ...

The National Park System

The national park idea is often referred to as one of America's greatest contributions to world culture. America's natural and cultural heritage—its very character and soul—is preserved in over 360 units of the National Park System.

The National Park Service administers ...

The French are Coming

General George Washington and Colonel Alexander Hamilton are advised at Morristown by the Marquis de Lafayette that the French are coming to support the American cause.

May 10, 1780

Marker is on South Park Place, on the left when traveling north. ...

The First General Assembly of Virginia

In honour of

The First General Assembly

of Virginia,

here

on the thirtieth day of July A.D. 1916.

Summoned by Sir George Yeardley,

Governor General of Virginia,

under authority from the London Company, pursuant to the charter granted by King James I, was convened in the church ...