The Culmination of Another Great Tragedy was at Hand

Pvt. William Goodhue, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

The night before the battle, the Union First and Twelfth Corps crossed Antietam Creek and marched onto the farm fields just behind you. It was the First Corps, commanded by Gen. Joseph Hooker, that opened ...

The American Union Lodge No. 1 Free and Accepted Masons

The lodge was organized in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on February 10, 1776, by Connecticut soldiers in the Continental Army. It met when and where it could during the Revolutionary War. By tradition, the lodge's name and seal were suggested by Benjamin ...

First Swimming Pool on the Outer Banks

The Whalehead Club has always been associated with wealth and leisure pursuits. When Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife, Marie-Louise LeBel, built their residence here in the 1920s, they made it as opulent as possible. The estate included the ...

Genoa or “Mormon Station” of the Pony Express

Near this spot stood the

Genoa or “Mormon Station”

of the Pony Express

1860 – 1861

St. Joseph, Missouri

To Sacramento, California.

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Dedicated June 9, 1934

By Citizens of Nevada.

Under Leadership Minden Rotary Club

Marker is at the intersection of Genoa Lane and Jackson Valley Road/Main Street (Nevada ...

The 77th Regiment, New York Volunteers

The Seventy-Seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers

(Bemis Heights Battalion)

Third Brigade, Second Division, Sixth Corps.

Army of the Potomac.

1861 —— * —— 1865

Took part in all the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, also in the Battle of Fort Stevens at Washington, ...

The Schwartz Ballroom

Side A

The Schwartz Ballroom opened to the music of Harold Austin and his New Yorkers on October 20, 1928. As part of the big band craze of the Roaring 20s, dance hall construction boomed while recording and radio broadcasting spread ...

To Commemorate the 250th Anniversary

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of George Washington the citizens of the original Washington, Tyne and Wear, England present to the people of the United States 250 trees planted along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. 1732-1982

Marker can ...

The Thirteen Adjacent Elms

1732–1932.

The thirteen adjacent elms representing the thirteen original colonies were planted in commemoration of the bicentennial celebration of George Washington’s birth and to revere the ancient and honorable artillery company of Massachusetts organized 1637.

Marker can be reached from George Washington ...

Columbia Army Air Base / The Doolittle Raiders

Columbia Army Air Base

Built during 1941 as the Lexington County Airport, this airfield became the Columbia Army Air Base shortly after the U.S. entered World War II in December, 1941. The base was used to train crews for

medium bombardment ...

The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 / The Ohio Company Purchase

Side A:

The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Following the establishment of the public land system in 1785, the Continental Congress appointed a committee, chaired by James Monroe, to establish government in the new territory north and west of the Ohio River. Drafted ...