Fort Stevens

Rock Creek Park

“We haven’t taken Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell! ” General Jubal Anderson Early

Built between 1861-1863 this structure was originally called Fort Massachusetts and guarded the northern defenses of the nation’s capital during the ...

Johnston Civil War Monument

(South Face)

CSA

1861

Our Confederate Dead

(East Face)

UDC

1865

(North Face)

1861

"Love of God and love

of country are the

two noblest passions

in the human heart.

A man without a country

is an exile in the world.

And a man without God is

an orphan in eternity."

[Rev. Henry van Dyke]

(West Face)

1865

Erected ...

National Historic Landmark - Eudora Welty House

Eudora Welty (1909-2001), one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, lived in this house for seventy six years. This house was built by Welty's parents, Christian and Chestina Welty. In 1925, Eudora Welty wrote all of her ...

Twilight of Slavery

“Enlightened” Accommodations No Match for Freedom

The three brick cabins in the field before you are tangible connections to the enslaved people of Rappahannock County before and during the Civil War. Many slaves escaped to Union lines here and elsewhere, and ...

Gaines’s Crossroads

“The Animal Must Be Very Slim”

(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon ...

Sutter's Hock Farm

* <— 1 Mile *

First white settlement in Sutter County on banks of the Feather River. Established 1844. General John A. Sutter retired to this farm in 1850. Partially destroyed by debris from mines in flood.

Marker is on State Highway ...

Whipple Farm

Settled by Malachi

Whipple of Conn. about

1793. In 1820 farm

won premium as model

farm in Albany County

Marker is on Berne-Altamont Road (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Knower House

Est. as hat factory about 1800

by Benjamin Knower

Gov. William L. Marcy

Married Cornelia Knower

in this house

Marker is on New York Route 146, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Sea Wing Disaster / Victims of the Sea Wing Disaster

On July 13, 1890 the steamer Sea Wing, heavily loaded with 215 passengers and crew, left the steamboat landing here for a Sunday excursion down the Mississippi River to Lake City.

The Sea Wing, based in Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin, was usually ...

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown

June 11, 1883 - January 11, 1961

Leader of women in their quest for finer and more productive living - mentor by her writings, of those seeking to live graciously - by her eloquence, inspired youth to nobler achievements; by her ...