Fort Willard

Civil War Fort constructed in 1862 as part of the defense system for Washington, D.C.

Site donated by

the developers of Belle Haven

Gene and Helen Olmi, Sr.

Gene and Natalie Olmi, Jr.

Fairfax County Park Authority

Marker can be reached from ...

Affair at Madison Station / Affair at Indian Creek Ford

May 17, 1864 / December 23, 1864

[Front]

The largest engagement of the Civil War in Madison County was fought during a driving rainstorm here at the site of the railroad depot. Under the command of Col. Josiah Patterson, the Confederate forces ...

Historic Underground Railroad

At this crossroads stood the home of the Edward Hesdra Family. This home is believed to have been a link in the underground slave railway, c1855.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (New York Route 59) and South ...

Site of the First Methodist Church

In Charleston

1785

Established in 1785 under the leadership

of Bishop Francis Asbury, the first Methodist

Society in Charleston purchased a lot in

Cumberland Street and erected a church

here in 1786. Long known as the Blue Meeting

House because of its color and to distinguish

it ...

The Old State House

“ . . . there the child Independence was born.”

Built in 1713, the Old State House was the seat of government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. In this building the Royal Governors, the Colonial Courts, and the Provincial Assembly ...

Alpha Delta Pi

Memorial Headquarters

Alpha Delta Pi Sorority was founded May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, as the first secret society in the world for college women, and thus became the mother of the social sorority system. Wesleyan Collage was ...

As Old as Charleston

The Tavern has been a spirited part of Charleston's history since the late 17th century.

From the early seaport days, through pirate attacks, the Revolution and Civil War, earthquakes and hurricanes, Prohibition and the Great Depression, the Tavern and ...

Kappa Delta

Zeta Chapter of Kappa Delta first national Greek letter sorority at the University of Alabama Chapter installed March 12, 1904. First members initiated in the Sigma Nu Hall by Katherine Lovejoy of Theta Chapter at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. First sorority ...

Stephen Dodson Ramseur

Confederate Major General

Woodside House, built in 1838 by Caleb Richmond, where General Ramseur recovered from wounds received in battles of Malvern Hill and Chancellorsville. Scene of his 28 October, 1863 marriage to his cousin Ellen Richmond. As Brigadier showed extraordinary ...

Fort Willard

Civil War Fort constructed in 1862 as part of the defense system for Washington, D.C.

Site donated by

the developers of Belle Haven

Gene and Helen Olmi, Sr.

Gene and Natalie Olmi, Jr.

Fairfax County Park Authority

Marker can be reached from ...