150th Anniversary of the USMA

Presented to

The Corps of Cadets

by

The Brigade of Midshipmen

United States Naval Academy

in commemoration of

the 150th Anniversary

of the founding of the

United States Military Academy

1802 1952

Marker is on Thayer Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Benjamin Wilkins House

Built in 1785, this

patterned glazed brick

homestead is typical of

several Wilkins properties of

the period in this area.

1847-1997

Marker is on Jennings Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Boisseau Family Cemetery

Tudor Hall Plantation

Many nineteenth-century Virginians buried deceased family members near their homes rather than in distant church yards. While we do not know when this cemetery was established, the only grave marker on this property belonged to Martha Eliza T. ...

The Enemy Is Behind Us!

March 7, 1862 - Mid-Morning

It was still below freezing at 10:30 a.m. March 7, 1862, when an alarmed messenger thundered into Union headquarters. The news he carried was startling: Confederates were moving down the Telegraph Road a mile north of ...

Digging the Mine

“We could blow that damn fort out of existence if we could run a mine shaft under it.”

- A private of the 48th Pennsylvania June 23, 1864

Spurred by the offhand suggestion of a former coal miner, on June 25, ...

The Jesuit Compound

This block was occupied by the Jesuits upon their arrival in 1581 until their expulsion in 1768. The Church of Santa Ana (1587), Colegio Maximo de San Ignacio (1595), Colegio de San Jose (1601), and the first church and convent ...

Laura's Dugout Home on the Banks of Plum Creek

The Charles Ingalls Family's dugout home was located here in the 1870's. This depression is all that remains since the roof caved in years ago. The prairie grasses and flowers here grow much as they did in Laura's time, and ...

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church

The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church was organized on this site in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Gadsden, Alabama

November 16, 1870

Bishop Robert Pain, presiding

The Centennial Convocation of the Conference was held here on November 16, 1970

Bishop ...

To the Memory of the Unknown Dead

Erected by the Women's Relief Corps

Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.

[small plaque]

Department of MO. W.R.C.

Monument Committee

Ruth A. Graham

Florence J. Fink

Sallie A. Moore

Mary E. Wright

Clara A. Alford

Mary J. Kirby

Cathedral of Immaculate Conception

Oldest church structure in continuous use in Fort Wayne area and seat of Catholicism in Northern Indiana.

Christianity carried to this part of the New World in 1600's by Catholic missionaries. Land formerly part of burial ground for Miami Indians.

Major ...