Fort Wead

C.H.S.

Civil War Sites

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Army of the James

Marker is at the intersection of Greyledge Boulevard and Greyledge Court, on the left when traveling west on Greyledge Boulevard.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tubac Presidio

Here stood the original Spanish presidio or fort established as San Ignacio de Tubac after the Pima uprising of 1751. Captain Juan Bautista de Anza was in command in 1775, when he led his famous expedition to California to found ...

The Embattled Ridge

Aug 6, 1864. The ridge just S. (densely wooded at the time) was fortified & held by Gen. W. B. Bate's div., Hardee's A.C. (CSA). It extended west from the Atlanta to East Point works, & blocked further Federal moves ...

Arts and Industries Building

The Arts and Industries Building, the second oldest Smithsonian building, was the first building designed for the National Museum, as the Smithsonian's first museum was known. It was constructed between 1879 and 1881 to meet the need for more exhibition ...

Charles Debrille Poston

1825-1902

Poston, know as the father of Arizona, came to Tubac in 1854 after the Gadsden Purchase and established the headquarters of a mining company, with mines near Arivaca and in the Santa Rita Mountains. Mining activities were discontinued during the ...

Belvidere School Site

In 1898 Charleston County School District No. 11 bought this land from J. S. Hart and built a public school on the site soon after. School closed in the early 1920s.

Marker is at the intersection of Chisolm Road (State ...

Old Waterworks

As early as 1754, water was pumped from a spring to a water tower, that stood east of here, through hollowed trunks of trees. It then flowed by gravity to five cisterns or reservoirs. Original engine house stands about 60 ...

“Get Down You Fool”

Battleground to Community

Hearing those words, President Abraham Lincoln ducked down from the Fort Stevens parapet during the Civil War battle that stopped the Confederates from taking Washington.

On July 9, 1864, some 15,000 Rebels led by General Jubal A. ...

Mission San Francisco De Los Tejas

First Spanish Mission in East Texas. Established in 1690 by Franciscan friars to convert the Tejas Indians. "Tejas", a Spanish rendition of the Indian word for "friend", was in time adopted as the state name.

The founding party was led ...

Athabasca Landing

This was once the "jumping off point" for the vast northland. Here in 1887 the first steamboat "Athabasca" was built to ply the river between Mirror Landing and Grand Rapids.

Steamboats superceded the canoe, York boat, and scow, and were replaced ...