The Philadelphia Korean War Memorial at Penn's Landing

for Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties

Major U.S. Combat Unit Casualties in Korea

The units listed below account for 96% of the Americans killed by hostile actions in Korea. Wounded in action include only those actually hospitalized

2nd ...

The Maryland Campaign of 1862

On September 4, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, hoping to shorten the war by winning a decisive victory on Northern soil, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. Lee planned to draw the Army of the Potomac through South Mountain into ...

Maryland Campaign of 1862 / The Lost Orders

(Left Side)

On September 4, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, hoping to shorten the war by winning a decisive victory on Northern soil, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. Lee planned to draw the Army of the Potomac through South Mountain ...

Maryland Campaign of 1862 / The Lost Orders

(Left Side)

On September 4, 1862, General Robert E. Lee, hoping to shorten the war by winning a decisive victory on Northern soil, crossed the Potomac River into Maryland. Lee planned to draw the Army of the Potomac through South Mountain ...

Island-Hopping the Straits

In 1920 the need for extensive highways in Michigan was becoming evident and Horatio S. Earle, highway commissioner, suggested a submerged, floating tunnel. A counter-proposal was made by C. E. Fowler, a consulting engineer from New York City.

The Fowler proposal ...

The Site of the First Landing

The site of the first landing is directly ahead of you in the river. During the years since 1607, the river has eroded about 25 acres of this part of Jamestown Island. The original shoreline was close to the present ...

Last Land in Georgia Ceded by the Creeks

Bowdon is near the geographical center of the last land in Georgia owned by the Creek Nation and ceded to the U.S. This tract, approximately 550 sq. mi. in area, is 80 mi long and 10 mi. wide at its ...

The Overland Trail

Call it the Pikes Peak Trail, the Denver Road, Overland Trail, or the South Platte River Trail – by any name, it dominated the movement of people and goods in Colorado between 1858 and 1867 and ranks with the great ...

People and the Land

American Indians occupied the region at least 13,000 years ago. They hunted game and gathered nature's bounty while residing in temporary seasonal camps. Approximately 3,000 years ago, they began to grow crops and establish permanent villages.

Captain John Smith explored the ...

First Order Fresnel Lens from the Hog Island Light

This pavil­ion dis­plays a first order Fresnel lens from the sec­ond Hog Island Light. The lens began ser­vice in 1896. Originally built in 1852, the first build­ing was destroyed by ero­sion and rebuilt in 1896, only to be deac­ti­vated in ...