Gateway to Discovery

Annapolis

Look around the harbor. Imagine what the first colonists saw more than 350 years ago when they first viewed this Chesapeake Bay peninsula: a pristine, abundant natural site with deep, protected harbors that had experienced little human settlement.

"...heaven and earth ...

Peter Jones Trading Station

The building before you was built as part of a trading station set up during the middle of the 17th century by Peter Jones I and his father-in-law Major General Abraham Wood. The building is known variously as Peter Jones ...

Confederate Defense of Mill Creek Gap

Feb. 25, 1864. Stewart’s and Breckinridge’s divs. in the gap, repulsed the attacks of the Federal 14th A.C., from the N.W., while Hindman's A.C. drove back Cruft's and Bard’s divs. in Crow Valley E. of Rocky Face Ridge and N. ...

58th Indiana Infantry Regiment

Hascall's Brigade - Wood's Division

(Front):58th Regiment

Infantry

commanded by

Col. Henry M. Carr,

15th Brigade - Gen. M.S. Hascall -

6th Division - Gen. Wood -

Army of the Ohio.

Indiana

(Back):58th Infantry

commanded by

Col. Henry M. Carr.This regiment arrived on the battlefield April 7th, 1862 too late to ...

Peter Jones Trading Station

You are looking into the bowels of this building from near the attic downward to the second, first, and basement levels. You see a massive, rubble-stone structure with stone walls approximately 2’8” thick at the basement level which taper slightly ...

Petersburg’s Role In Trade

Immediately to your right is a mural adapted from a drawing by William Waud which appeared in Harper’s Magazine during the Civil War. The mural is an artist’s impression of the Petersburg waterfront on the Appomattox River - probably at ...

57th Indiana Infantry

Wagner's Brigade - Wood's Division

(front)

57th

Regiment

Infantry,

Commanded by

Col. Cyrus C. Hines,

21st Brigade--Col. George D. Wagner--

6th Division--Gen. Wood--

Army of the Ohio.

Indiana.

(back of monument)

57th Infantry,

Commanded by Col. Cyrus C. Hines.

This regiment arrived on the battlefield about 12 m., Monday, April 7, 1862. It formed ...

51st Indiana Infantry

Garfield's Brigade - Wood's Division

(Front):51st Regiment

Infantry

commanded by

Col. Abel D. Streight,

20th Brigade - Gen. Garfield

6th Division - Gen. Wood

Army of the Ohio

Indiana

(Back):51st Infantry

commanded by

Col. Able D. Streight

This regiment was detailed by Brigadier General James A. Garfield at Savannah, Tennessee, to guard ...

Staten Island World War I Memorial

Front inscription:

America over the top

Rear inscription:

Erected by the residents of Public School Dist. 26 in honor of the 75 men who left to fight in the great World War. We lovingly inscribe the names of those ...

Southbury World War II Memorial

In honor of

those from Southbury

who served in

the World War

1941-1945

Marker is on Main Street South 0.1 miles east of Flood Bridge Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org