Gravesite of General John Charles Frémont

1813 – 1890

Atop Rockland Cemetery lies the grave of he whose exploration in the 1840s opened the way west for countless settlers, who issued the first Emancipation Proclamation and who saved the west for the Union in 1861.

From the ashes ...

Jenny Lake

Running water initially cut V-shaped canyons throughout the range. Mountain glaciers later filled these canyons. Rocks of all sizes, falling onto and plucked by these glaciers, enhanced their grinding power. The broad U-shape of Cascade Canyon typifies the reshaping force ...

Concordia Hall and Jewish Life in Little Rock

Site of the first Jewish house of worship in Arkansas

From 1882 to 1887, an ornate two-story space on the second floor of this building served as the social hall for the Concordia Association – an organization established in 1864 to ...

Jockey Hollow

In the winter of 1779-80

coldest of the War

the Patriot Army camped

in these hills, smaller

forces stayed until 1782.

Marker is on Mt Kemble Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling south.

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James T. Harrison Home

Built by Thomas Blewett circa 1840 for daughter Regina and James Harrison, leading lawyer and Politician. Site of 1865 marriage and home of Stephen D. and Regina Harrison Lee.

Marker is at the intersection of 9th Street North and Military Road ...

Union Artillery 6 Pound James Rifles

At the right of the Battery of Fort Pillow these two middle embrasures or openings in the parapet were fortified with two 6 pounder rifles. These were manned by members of Battery D, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery (colored). During the ...

Major General John Reynolds

(Front):Major-General

John F. Reynolds

U.S.V.

(Left):Killed

at

Gettysburg

July 1

MDCCCLXIII

(Right):Born

at

Lancaster, Pa.

September XXI

MDCCCXX

(Back):To his memory

by the

first

Army corps

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling south.

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Colonel James Wood

Colonel James Wood, the founder of Winchester, was a native of the ancient city of the same name in England. He laid out and founded the new town prior to 1740. It received a charter of incorporation from the colonial ...

Kehila Kedosha Janina

Kehila Kedosha Janina was built in 1926–27 by Greek-speaking Jews from Northwestern Greece and is the only Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. The brick-faced facade is embellished with symbolic Hebraic ornaments, including a stone rendition of the ten commandments ...

Home of Edmund Jennings Lee

Completed 1801

Eminent lawyer, he lived here until 1837. His son, Cassius Francis Lee until 1865. Edmund Jennings Lee served as Vestryman and Warden of Christ Church, whose Glebe lands he successfully defended from confiscation after the Revolutionary War. Major of ...