Staff Sergeant Howard E. Woodford

June 21 1921 - June 7, 1945

Third Battalion, 130th Infantry

33rd Division, Army of the United States

Posthumously Awarded the

Congressional Medal of Honor

By his daring, skillful, and inspiring leadership, as well as by his gallant determination to search out and kill the ...

Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Wilderness Area

You are about to enter the Wilderness Area of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Designated by Congress in 1968, this area is part of the 100-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System. It is distinguished in being the first designated Wilderness ...

Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum

Civil War to Civil Rights

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington

“The neighborhood was our whole life.” Albert Small, born in the neighborhood in 1902.

This is the oldest surviving synagogue building in Washington. Constructed in 1875 by Adas Israel Congregation, and ...

Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site

Welcome to Historic Camden

Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site is located at the original site of Camden, the oldest inland town in South Carolina. Established in 1733, colonial Camden emerged as the trade center of the backcountry by the 1760s.

On ...

Tusayan Museum and Ruin

Cohonina and ancestral Pueblo (Kayenta Anasazi) people lived in this area in prehistoric time. The ancestral Puebloans built Tusayan about AD 1185. A visit to the museum and a short walk through the remains of the village will furnish a ...

The Cumberland Trace

A Native American Trail

Named by early pioneers traversing thru the region, this designated Indian trail led these settlers into this area during Western migration. This mainly Cherokee trail, (although used some by the Shawnee), originated at Rockwood in Roane County, ...

Desert Storm - War Memorial

[On boulder]

In Honor of our

Desert Storm Veterans

1990 1991

[Dedication Plaque ]

May 17, 1992 - - a special dedication,

memories - - sweet n’ bitter recollections.

August 1990, U.S. troops deployed to a foreign land,

Saudia Arabia - - a country of sand.

To those who ...

British Commanders

Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis (1738 - 1805)

Lord Cornwallis, a member of one of England’s most prominent noble families, began his military career in 1756. He distinguished himself during the Seven Year’s War (1756 - 1763). At the ...

The Randsburg - Mojave Road

The Randsburg Mojave Road was built by Rice & Shippee of Mojave to speed stage transportation from the Southern Pacific railroad station at Mojave, to the rich gold mines in the Randsburg area; service commenced on November 22, 1898. The ...

Fort Deposit / Roche de Bout

Anthony Wayne Parkway

Fort Deposit

Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne built Fort Deposit near here on Aug. 19, 1794 when advancing against theforces ofthe hostile Indian Confederacy gathered at the foot of the Rapida. The following day, leaving Capt. Zebulon Pike with 200 ...