Pioneering Bacterial Genetics

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Geneticist Joshua Lederberg was the first University of Wisconsin faculty member to receive the Nobel Prize. His discovery of conjugation in bacterial cells was a milestone in biology and ushered in the new field of ...

Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson Memorial

1861 – Deo Vindice – 1865

(Front face)

In memory of

Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

21 Jan. 1824 - 10 May 1863

Com. 2d Corps. Army of Northern Va., CSAGraduated from West Point US Military Academy 1846 ? ...

Replica 6.4 inch Brooke Rifled Canon

Confederate Naval Canon from the CSS Albemarle

The Brooke Rifle is named after its developer, Commander John Mercer Brooke (CSA), who served as Chief, Dept. of Ordnance and Hydrography. While closely resembling the popular Parrott Gun used by the Union, the ...

Bowser Family Cemetery

This marker recognizes the final resting place of Spencer Bowser, the patriarch of a prominent African American family in North Carolina. Also buried here are several other members of the Bowser family, including J.P. Bowser, Lloyd B. Bowser, Q.B. Bowser, ...

The Glebe of Fairfax Parish

The glebe was a 500-acre farm provided for the rector of Fairfax Parish, which included both Christ Church, Alexandria, and the Falls Church. The Glebe House, built in 1775, stood here. It burned in 1808 and was rebuilt in 1820, ...

Attleborough's Tribute

"To The Memory of the boys who defended our Union"

Marker is on Dennis Street, on the left when traveling north.

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85th Redoubt

Union fort built by the 85th New York Regiment. It was taken on April 18, 1864, in one of the heaviest assaults of the siege.

Marker is at the intersection of Wilson Street and Campbell Street, on the right when traveling ...

First Chemical Synthesis of a Gene

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

Biochemist Har Gobind Khorana shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1968 for research that was essential to understanding how DNA is translated into proteins. His work at the Institute for Enzyme Research ...

Ransom's Assault

General Matt Ransom's brigade formed in line of battle near here in the final Confederate attack, April 20, 1864.

Marker is on East Main Street west of General Pettigrew Drive, on the right when traveling west.

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Somerset Place

Antebellum plantation of Josiah Collins III, who grew rice & corn. Home in 1860 to 328 slaves. Located six miles south.

Marker is at the intersection of North Carolina Route 94 and Sixth Street, on the right when traveling east on ...