Olympic Games in Athens

In summer 1996, Athens, Georgia, shone as the largest Olympic venue site outside Atlanta, as the state hosted the Centennial Olympic Games July 19 - August 4. Some 650,000 visitors bought tickets to events at three University of Georgia venues: ...

The South Fork Dam

You are now standing on what remains of the South Fork Dam. Completed in 1853, the dam was made chiefly of earth. Layers of clay one-foot-thick or less were built up one by one. Each layer was covered with a ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 15, 1864 after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the north, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his Army [US] (60,000 infantry and ...

Sacred to the Memory of the Men of Harford County

Sacred to the memory of the men of Harford County who made the supreme sacrifice during the World War.

Marker is on Main Street 0.1 miles north of Pennsylvania Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The View from the French King Bridge

A special place designated by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs because it exemplifies the unique qualities of the Commonwealth.

Marker is on Mohawk Trail (Massachusetts Route 2), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Water for the Army

In 1898 as Battery Jasper neared completion, work began on these two 30,000 gallon cisterns. Concrete gutters atop Jasper were designed to collect rain water, which was conducted to these holding tanks.

To provide additional water, particularly in times ...

The Town Common and Hauley House

Ridgefield, Connecticut

The First Meeting House was built on the green in 1713. In 1723 the first Congregational Meeting House was erected and served as a school, church and government building. It was replaced in 1800 by a second Meeting ...

The Museum in the Streets

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Welcome to Ridgefield's History Trail!

Ridgefield, Connecticut – 1708

The Fundamental Orders adopted by Connecticut in 1639 directed would-be settlers, able to support a minister, to establish a settlement, build a Congregational Church and farm the land. This is exactly what ...

In Memory of the Many Soldiers of the Revolution

In Memory of

the many soldiers of the

Revolution interred

at Opequon Church

of whom only seven

are known

Major John Gilkeson

Captain William Chipley

Captain Samuel Gilkeson

Captain James Simrall

Captain Samuel Vance

Captain William Vance

Private James Hamilton

Marker is on Opequon Church Lane, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy ...

The American Character

Bascom Hill Historic District

At the end of the nineteenth century, one of the most popular classes at the University of Wisconsin was Frederick Jackson Turner's course on the American frontier. In those lectures, Turner shared beliefs about our nation's history ...