The Ignatz Meyer Building

The major fire in Central City on May 21, 1874 nearly wiped out the commercial district of the city. The new building was completed by November 1st of the same year and B.F. Pease operated a dry goods store at ...

African Americans And The Boston Saloon

Between 1866 and 1875, a remarkable business thrived directly behind building. Free-born William C. Brown operated his Boston Saloon, serving Virginia City’s African Americans. Archeologists have revealed that Brown offered his customers finely prepared meals with the best cuts of ...

Site of the Home of the Poet Harold Hart Crane

1899 - 1932

[The marker is primarily pictorial in nature, with an image of the house Crane lived in carved into the stone]

1709 E. 115 St., Cleveland, O

Marker is on East 115th Street south of Bellflower Road, on ...

“The Old Homestead House” of Myers Avenue

The town site of Cripple Creek was laid out shortly after the discovery of gold by Horace Bennett, a Denver realtor, with his partner, Julius Myers, naming the street after each of them. Bennett Avenue became the main street of ...

Coastal Defense: The Endicott System

1898 - 1943

Battery Jasper, the black, concrete structure in front of you, was built in 1898 as part of the Endicott System - a series of concrete and steel fortifications armed with heavy-caliber guns, along the U.S. coastline. With ...

The Benjamin DuPré House

C.- 1804

This significant single house was built by Benjamin DuPré, a French tailor, sometime after 1803. The entire area was known as “Gadsden’s Green” after Christopher Gadsden who divided this land into six wharf lots and 197 back lots, ...

Manitowoc and the Car Ferries / S.S. Badger

Manitowoc and the Car Ferries. In the first five decades of the 20th century, Lake Michigan railroad car ferry service aided national defense and the regional economy by providing a key transportation alternative to the railroad bottle neck in Chicago. ...

Army of Northern Virginia

July 5, 1863

The Army on the march to the Potomac. Hill's Corps had the advance. Longstreet's the centre. Ewell's the rear. Hood's Division Longstreet's Corps started after sunrise. Early's Division Ewell's Corps started near noon and formed the rear guard. ...

Army of Northern Virginia

July 4, 1863

Ewell's Corps marched before dawn from the base of Culp's Hill and the streets of Gettysburg to Seminary Ridge and the Army remained in position on that Ridge throughout the day. Soon after dark Hill's Corps withdrew and ...

Army of Northern Virginia

July 3, 1863

Pickett's Division Longstreet's Corps arrived on the field early in the morning.

Robertson's and Jones's Brigades Stuart's Cavalry Division marched from Chambersburg via Cashtown and Fairfield to a position on the right flank of the Confederate Army. Jones's Brigade ...