Chesterfield Railroad

In 1829 the Virginia General Assembly chartered the Chesterfield Rail Road Company, which built the first railroad in Virginia. Moncure Robinson (1802-1891), a railroad pioneer, designed the track, which once passed by here. In 1831, the company began hauling coal ...

Central Park Veterans Memorial – World War I

This tree planted May 30th 1923

By San Mateo Post No.82

American Legion

In Honor of those who served in

World War I

1917 – 1919

Marker can be reached from South El Camino Real (State Highway 82).

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The Submarine Industry

Rooted in Connecticut

Just as the early settlers recognized the fine qualities of the New London harbor, so did the US Government. At the end of the Civil War, the Federal Government accepted land in Groton and Ledyard, purchased by New ...

Rusk County World War I Memorial

Rusk County

"Greater love

hath no man

than this."

1917 - 1918

Marker can be reached from Everett Avenue west of East 3rd Street North (U.S. 8), on the left when traveling west.

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Mason Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Side A:

In spite of small numbers and being welcomed by the mostly white congregation of First Methodist Episcopal Church, African Americans in Findlay in the 1880s wanted to express their faith in ways that best reflected their freedoms and traditions. ...

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Hancock County

United States of America

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Hancock County

Civil War

Bensinger, William Captain Georgia 1862

Porter, John R. 1st Lt. Georgia 1862

Scott, John M. Sergeant Georgia 1862

Vance, Wilson J. Brevet Capt. Tenn. 1862

Williams, William H. ...

The Underground Railroad in Hancock County

Side A:

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 prompted an expansion of the "Underground Railroad," and as the state spanning the shortest distance between the Ohio River and Canada, Ohio saw heavy traffic in escaping slaves in the decades before the ...

Green Davis Tailgate Terrace

“Tailgating" on the Troy campus was initiated during the 1990’s through the example and leadership of Green Davis. In 1993 the area outside of Memorial Stadium was named in honor of Green Davis for his enduring efforts to boost Trojan ...

The Amistad Incident

Galvanizing Abolitionists

In the summer of 1839, the Amistad, a Spanish coastal schooner with 39 kidnapped Africans aboard, was found in Long Island Sound and brought to New London. The captives, who had been sold into slavery in Cuba, had taken ...

Union Raid On Coalfield Station

On the first day of Union Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz's second raid (12-17 May 1864) on Confederate railroads around Richmond, 3,000 cavalrymen rode northwest from Bermuda Hundred and passed Chesterfield Court House at 1:00 P.M. Arriving about midnight at ...