The United States Court of Claims

The United States Court of Claims held its first meeting in "Willard's Hotel" on this site on May 11, 1855. The court was established to allow citizens to sue the U.S. Government. In 1861, President Lincoln wrote of the court:

The Army of the James Monument

(north face)

Sacred

to the

Lamented Dead

of

The Army

of the James.

(south face)

Erected

by the direction of

Maj. Genl. B.F. Butler.

George Suckley.

Surg. U.S. Vol.

Colonel and Medical Director

H.B. Fowler.

Surg. 12. N.H. Vol.

Surgeon in charge of

Point of Rocks hospital.

Geo. Jones.

Hospital Chaplain

1865.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of North ...

The Fairfax Family

Belvoir was the home of William Fairfax from 1741 until his death in 1757. William Fairfax hand seven children, four by his marriage to Sarah Walker: Sarah, Ann, Thomas and George William. After Sarah Walker Fairfax's death in 1731, William ...

Women of the Confederacy Memorial

[South Side]:

1860

Affectionately

dedicated by

the Jefferson Davis

Memorial Association

to the women of

the Confederacy.

The living and the dead,

who midst the gloom of war

were heroines in the strife,

to perpetuate their noble

sacrifices on the altar of

our common country. Let

sweet incense forever

rise, till it reach them,

in robes ...

You are now on the 100° Meridian

Historically that meridian is significant. For two generations the Insurance Companies and other worldwide lending agencies would not, as a matter of agreed policy, lend a shiny dime west of this line. There reason was that some geographer had labeled ...

Tomb of the Unknown Slave

On this October 30, 2004, we, the faith community of St. Augustine Catholic Church, dedicate this shrine consisting of grave crosses, chains and shackles to the memory of the nameless, faceless, turfless Africans who met an untimely death in ...

To the Memory of Burrell Hecock

To

the memory of

Burrell Hecock

of

Cleveland Ohio

Aged 17 Years

Who lost his life in an

heroic attempt to rescue

Mr and Mrs

Eldridge Stanton

of Toronto Ontario

when the ice bridge in

the gorge immediately

below was swept down

the Niagara River

and into the

Whirlpool Rapids

February 4th 1912

Marker can be reached from ...

The CCC in York County / Tom Johnston Camp, (SCS#10), CCC

The CCC in York County

One of the most successful of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created in 1933. It gave many young men and World War veterans jobs planting trees, fighting forest fires ...

Cincinnati Public Markets / The Northern Liberties

Side A: Cincinnati Public Markets

Public markets housing butchers, fish merchants, and produce vendors were once the primary source of perishable foods for residents of America's cities. Cincinnati operated nine in 1859. Only Findlay Market, built here in 1852, ...

The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Compa

On this site in 1891, Thomas Edison developed an enormous complex of mines, crushers, separators, and subsidiary buildings that came to be known as “Edison” or, more properly, “The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Company.” This company ...