America's Oldest Maintained Cemetery

Myles Standish Burying ground is the oldest maintained cemetery in the United States. This sacred ground has been cared for by the town of Duxbury Massachusetts, and takes its name from Myles Standish, military leader of the Plymouth colony who ...

Mt. Olivet Methodist Church

This is Arlington’s oldest church site in continuous use. Land for a Methodist Protestant Meeting House was conveyed in 1855 by William and Ann Marcey and John B. and Cornetia Brown, for whom Brown’s Bend Road (now 16th Street, North) ...

Celebration of Freedom Memorial

To Honor Those Who Serve

Liberty For All

[Representative Memorials]

In honor of George F. Austin

for service in the Navy aboard

USS Estes AGC 12

Flag Ship supporting the invasions of

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

witnessing the flag raising on Mt. Surabachi

Rita Sweeney Austin

You gave your lives ...

Site of Jonathan Barney - Mason Barney Shipyard

1782-1861

Here were built about 200 ships from small sloops to vessels of 1060 tons which sailed from the Atlantic coast to the China seas.

Dedicated to their memory by

Algernon H Bell •

Carolyn Bell Fenley •

Constance Bell Falconer

Marker is at ...

The Eugenia and George Sealy Pavilion

Service to the community by the late George Sealy (1880-1944), Galveston financier and civic leader, and his wife Eugenia (1901-1987) was commemorated by the dedication of this pavilion in their memory. The pavilion is a gift to the people of ...

Artillery Blind

This stone structure was probably an artillery blind or epaulment (a breastwork to cover troops in front and sometimes in flank) constructed in 1794 to protect gunners from fire from redoubt 4 on Rocky Hill just west and above ...

Artillery and Mortars

The artillery and mortars in Fort Putnam are reproductions of pieces which were in the fort in September 1780. All fourteen pieces were manufactured through the generosity of the Class of 1952, United States Military Academy, 1974-1976.

Marker can ...

Monteagle Sunday School Assembly

MSSA differed from other Chautauquas and is significant is that it was ecumenical from the beginning. Known as the Chautauqua of the South, it has conducted annual assemblies for religious and educational programs without interruption since 1883. In 1982, MSSA ...

Fort D.A. Russell

Originally named Camp Marfa, this installation began as a supply post for U.S. Army border patrol stations in 1911. It was a cavalry camp during the years of the Mexican Revolution. Renamed for Civil War general David Allen Russell, it ...

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Our Freedom Began When in 1776

These Courageous Men Signed

The Declaration of Independence

Father of Our County

George Washington

The Voice of Freedom

Patrick Henry

The Pen of Freedom

George Mason

[Signers of the Declaration are listed by State]

With utmost thanks to those who live and die to ...