Battle of Milliken's Bend

At daybreak on June 7, 1863, Gen. H. E. McCulloch led his Texas Brigade against the Union force which guarded the Union supply depot at Milliken's Bend.

In the savage fighting which ensued, the Confederates drove the Federals from their ...

Birthplace of Mary McLeod Bethune

This noted humanitarian and educator was born five miles north of Mayesville, S.C., on July 10, 1875. She was one of the first pupils of the Mayesville Mission School, located fifty yards west of this marker, where she later served ...

DEAD TOWN OF HARDWICKE

On May 10, 1754, GEORGE TOWN was established at the Elbow of Great Ogeechee River, eight miles east. In February, 1755, Gov. Reynolds, dissatisfied with Savannah as a capital and as a port, chose this new site because it "has ...

Americus Colored Hospital

One of the earliest hospitals in southwest Georgia devoted to the care of African Americans, the Americus Colored Hospital opened in 1923.

The majority of the funds needed to build the hospital were provided by Dr. W.S. Prather. Practice in ...

The Only Advantage of the Day

June 27, 1864.

While 8 Federal brigades at Kennesaw Mountain and at Cheatham Hill, made futile attempts to break Johnston's Confederate lines, Schofield's 23rd Union Regiment moved South from Powder Springs road.

This flanking move was opposed by Hood's A. ...

PASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome

The dome and headquarters building, both constructed in 1959, represent a prominent example of Modern Architecture designed by architect, John Terence Kelly, and mathematician, R. Buckminster Fuller.

Located in Materials Park, home to ASM International (formerly known as the American ...

Indian Statue

The 48-foot high statue known as "Black Hawk" was the creation of sculptor Lorado Taft, a national art figure in the United States art world from the 1890s to his death in 1936.

Completed in 1911, the statue is situated ...

The Anderson Building

The Anderson Building, constructed in 1924, is a mixed-use three-story brick and terra-cotta Sullivanesque building located among other two to three story multiple bay/multiple lot commercial and apartment buildings on the Southwest fringe of downtown Omaha.

The Sullivanesque style of ...

Olcott Avenue Historic District

The Olcott Avenue neighborhood in the borough of Bernardsville, located in northeast Somerset County, was developed at the turn of the 20th century as a carefully laid out middle class residential neighborhood.

The streets in the district are characterized by ...

Orchard Beach State Park

Orchard Beach State Park, on the shore of Lake Michigan, is one of the most intact examples of a Michigan state park developed in the 1930s and 1940s under National Park Service guidelines.

Most of the park's buildings were designed ...