Tod Barracks, 1863

One of five Civil War military posts in Columbus, Tod Barracks, named in honor of Governor David Tod, was built in 1863 as the headquarters for military administration in central Ohio. Necessitated by Lincoln’s call for 300,000 new troops, the ...

Hayward and the "Big Mill"

Anthony Judson Hayward, 1835–1913, found this an ideal site for a water powered saw mill and organized the North Wisconsin Lumber Company to harvest the vast pine stands of the upper Namekagon. Their “Big Mill” was built beside the dam, ...

Central Methodist Church

Organized in 1837 as the first congregation of any denomination in Spartanburg, when this site was deeded to nine trustees. Services began in early 1838. Original frame meeting house with belfry was replaced in 1854 by a larger brick church. ...

Retreat from Chinn Ridge

Expecting to outflank the Rebels, Col. Oliver O. Howard's Maine and Vermont regiments reached the top of this rise in two lines of battle. Suddenly the air exploded with shell fragments. A Confederate battery had opened fire from the Chinn ...

The Gift of Friendship

Japanese Pagoda

This 3,800 pound, 17th century Japanese Pagoda arrived in the Nation’s Capital in 1957 as a gift from Mayor Ryozo Hiranuma of Yokohama, Japan. Its parts packed in five shipping crates with no assembly instructions, the pagoda required ...

West Point Monument at Elmwood Cemetery

In the Memory of Our Heroes, 1861 - 1865

Erected by the Norfolk Memorial Association in the memory of our heroes, 1861 - 1865

Marker can be reached from East Princess Anne Road.

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Death of Fletcher Webster

On the morning of the 30th, Col. Fletcher Webster wrote his wife:

"If a fight comes off, it will be to-day or to-morrow & will be a most dreadful & decisive one. This may be my last letter, dear love, for ...

The First United States Soldiers to Be Stationed at the Pass of

1848 – 1948

By authority of War Department Orders of

November 7, 1848

The First United States Soldiers

to be stationed at the Pass of the North

Camped in this Area

Regimental Headquarters and Six Companies

of the Third Infantry

Major Jefferson Van Horne Commanding

arrived in El ...

Woodcrest

circa 1901 - 1903

has been placed

on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the

United States Department

of the Interior

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House and Farm of Colonel James Barrett

House and Farm of

Colonel James Barrett.

Commanding Officer

of the Middlesex Militia

On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British march from Boston which resulted in the outbreak of the Revolutionary War ended here with a search for military stores. Gun ...