Centennial of Hattiesburg

[West Side]

Formerly Choctaw Territory and later claimed by France, Britain, Spain and United States, this area entered by settlers in early 1800s and known as Ewin Forks, later Gordonville. Chosen as rail center by Captain William H. Hardy in 1880 ...

Attack at Deep Cut

Second Battle of Manassas

Full-throated cheers greeted the order to attack. More than 6,000 Union soldiers under General Fitz John Porter poured across the road into the fields of Lucinda Dogan's farm. As the blue-clad lines traversed the open ground, a ...

Cincinnatus Citizen-Soldier

VMI and the Citizen – Soldier The Virginia Military Institute program is based on the concept of the citizen - soldier, a man prepared to take his place in civilian life but trained and ready for military leadership in ...

Hayes Station

Completed in 1860 by innkeeper David Hayes in anticipation of the soon to be completed Sonora-Mono Toll Road.

By 1865 with the toll road completed, wagons, stages, and pack trains used the station as a mail, relay, and rest stop for ...

Johnson Hall State Historic Site

Revolution in the Mohawk Valley

Sir William Johnson built Johnson Hall in 1763 as the center of a grand estate. He was made a British baronet for his role in the French & Indian Wars, a title his son, John, ...

William Henry Hatch

Hannibal was the home of William H. Hatch, lawyer, Congressman, and father of agricultural experiment stations. Hatch sponsored the law creating the office of Secretary of Agriculture. Adjoining Hannibal is the Hatch Farm, bequeathed to the State by his daughter ...

Mark Twain's Father's Law Office

Young Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) saw a dead man on the floor in here one night. Sam went out at a window, taking the sash along with him. "I didn't need the sash," he recalled, "but it was handier to ...

The Old Main Watch

Ehem. Hauptwache

[Marker text in German:]

1774 unter Fürstbischof

Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim

nach Plänen von J.E. Roppelt erbaut

militärische Embleme von

Johann Bernhard Kamm

Repräsentationsgebäude der fürstbischöfliche Infantrie

[Marker text translated into English, more or less:]

Constructed in 1774 under Prince Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim according to ...

Battle of Buckland Mills

On October 19, 1863, 12,000 Confederate and Union cavalry clashed at Buckland. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, screening the Confederate withdrawal following the Battle of Bristoe Station, blocked the advance of Union Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry division. Initially occupying this position, ...

Hill Cliff Battery

The Revolutionary Army fortified this hill in 1776 to provide more firepower down river and to maintain communication between Gravel Hill Battery to the east and the Fort Constitution area to the west. Hill Cliff Battery mounted from three ...