This Tablet Marks the Site of Fort Morris

Erected in November 1755 by Col. James Burd and used as one of the chain of forts to protect the frontiers during the period of Indian hostility following the defeat of General Edward Braddock.

Marker is on West King Street (Route ...

Testing the Line: May 8-10

Spotsylvania Exhibit Shelter

If It Takes All Summer

Grant's failure to win the race to Spotsylvania led to two weeks of brutal combat. Aggressive and impatient, the Union commander relentlessly hammered away at the entrenched Confederate line, looking for weakness.

Laurel Hill

Less well ...

The John T. Cunningham Memorial Bridge

The Cunningham Bridge, completed in 1925, once spanned the Cumberland River here. Erected on the site of the old Gaiser's Ferry. It was one of the first bridges to be built by the newly-formed Tennessee Highway Department and was the ...

The Alamo

A Story Bigger Than Texas

This is the Long Barrack, the oldest building in San Antonio. It was built in 1724 as a convento or residence for priests and was originally part of the Mission San Antonio de Valero, now known ...

Mansfield Blue Star Mothers War Memorial

Dedicated to

the men and women of this community

who served our country in time of war,

and in memory of those

who lost their lives.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Park Street North, on the right when traveling north on ...

Meriwether Lewis

(1774 – 1809)

With William Clark he led the transcontinental Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1803 – 1806. Lewis prepared for the journey & later deposited its significant specimens, journals, and other artifacts here in Philadelphia.

Marker is at the intersection ...

The Alamo in 1836

The church of former Mission San Antonio de Valero had been converted into a powder magazine and artillery platorm by the Mexican Army in the autumn of 1835 during the Siege of Béxar. Following the capture of the town in ...

Mount St. Helens - You Are Edge of the Blast Zone

The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 triggered a huge landslide causing a powerful, laterally directed blast. A pyroclastic flow consisting of rock fragments, highly charged gas and super heated steam, devastated almost 150,000 acres of private, ...

"The Determination of One Man"

In October of 1906, Joseph Debenedetti constructed this two story mission revival commercial style building, which immediately became the center of commerce for Half Moon Bay and the surrounding area. Rising from the ashes of the devastating 1906 earthquake, it ...

The Manor of Cornwaleys’ Cross

2000 acres granted Sept. 8th, 1639 to Thomas Cornwaleys who came to Maryland with “The Ark and The Dove.” He and Jerome Hawley were appointed “His Lordship’s Commissioners for the government of said Province” 1633 with Leonard Calvert as Governor.

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