search

Results for R

Redoubt and Battery 1

The main American Position was nearing completion when a redoubt was constructed at the extreme right of the American line. It contained two artillery pieces that could rake the levee and canal.

On the morning of January 5, 1815, 2000 British ...

photo_library
Volpi's Grocery

This building which was built around 1900 has always housed a grocery store. The business was purchased in 1925 by the Volpi family. This grocery store was also a place where one could get a drink during Prohibition. When the ...

photo_library
Cutting's Wharf

Francis Cutting was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834 and arrived in San Francisco in 1858. After establishing himself in the fruit packing business he sought to expand operations to fruit growing as well and looked here for a wharf ...

photo_library
Barret's Missouri Battery

Maj. Felix H. Robertson's Reserve Artillery.

Barret's Missouri Battery

Two 6-pdr. Bronze: Two 12-pdr. Howitzers.

Maj. Felix H. Robertson's Reserve Artillery.

Army of Tennessee.

Capt. Overton W. Barret, Commanding,

1st Lieut. Wm. Brown

2d Lieut. Isaiah Lightner,

2d Lieut. G. W. Orear.

Nov. 25th, 1863 11 a.m.

One section of ...

photo_library
Napa Valley Railroad

The Napa Valley Railroad ran from Soscol Landing, the most northerly terminus of the larger bay steamers, north 4.5 miles to this site in Napa City. Ground was broken on November 21, 1864, and by January 1865 the grade and ...

photo_library
Henderson Walker

c.1660~1704

Acting governor, 1699~1703; attorney general, judge, and vestryman.

Grave is 75 feet west.

Marker is on N. Broad St.

Courtesy hmdb.org

photo_library
The Tippecanoe County Courthouse

The Tippecanoe County Courthouse

Neoclassic Architecture

on the

National Register of Historic Places

Construction Started 1881

Completed 1884

Marker is on Main Street west of North 4th Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

photo_library
Combat Infantrymen

To Honor All Combat

Infantrymen

We were boys and we were young

We became men on that hill we overrun

Some of us lived, many of us died

For a moment with us abide

And join in prayer with me

To honor those of the combat infantry

Freedom ...

photo_library
Valley Forge Hut

The Hut nearby built according to Washington’s Orders for the Construction of Huts for the Winter Camp of 1777-1778 stands on the Site of a similar Hut which sheltered Soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line and it commemorates their Fortitude in ...

photo_library
Cox Ferry

Operated by Joseph Cox 1820 to 1830. Replaced by wooden covered bridge built by Ira Carpenter & used from 1830 to 1870

Marker is on Quaker Road (New York Route 251) 0.7 miles east of River Road (New York Route ...

photo_library
menu
more_vert