The Iron Titans Tame the Marsh?

The Waterways

The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Gains Steam

By 1850, larger steam driven commercial carriers needed a faster, deeper and wider passage to market than the hand dug Dismal Swamp Canal, a few miles west of here. Digging the Dismal Swamp ...

William Moore McCullough / Civil Rights Movement in Piqua

Side A: William Moore McCulloch

William McCulloch was born in Holmes County where he was educated in a one-room schoolhouse before moving to Wooster to attend high school and the College of Wooster. He attained prominence as Ohio's Speaker ...

Why Build a Canal Here?

The Waterways

A Safer, Faster Route was Needed

Prior to the Revolutionary War, the most direct routes to transport goods to Norfolk and points north from North Carolina were, either the very slow overland route through the village of Great Bridge, or ...

First Lutheran Church

On this spot stood the

First

Lutheran Church

in Town of Guilderland

1787. Rev. Heinrich Moeller

first regular pastor

Marker is at the intersection of Route 146 and Hawes Road, on the right when traveling east on Route 146.

Fort Richardson

Historical Site

Defenses of Washington

1861-1865

Fort Richardson

Here is what is left of Fort Richardson, a detached redoubt constructed in September, 1861, to cover the left flank of the newly built Arlington defense line, It was named for General Israel B. Richardson, whose ...

Armed Forces Memorial

This monument is dedicated to remember those men and women missing in action while serving in the Armed Services of the United States of America

Korean War

Clifton E. Brooks – PFC U.S. Army •

Samuel L. Crawford ...

Old Mt. Zion Church

In 1864, Mt. Zion Baptist Church stood on the site of the North Side Park Baptist Church.

July 20. The skirmish line of Walthall’s div., Stewart’s A.C., [CS] was astride Howell Mill Rd., just N. of the church. When Reynolds’ ...

The Drill Field

Gathering place, site of ceremonies and parades, training ground - the drill field was the focal point of daily life at Fort Yellowstone.

Each day began with a bugler sounding Reveille. Gradually, the Fort came to life and another bugle call ...

Eugene Gifford Grace

(1876-1960)

President, Bethlehem Steel, 1913-45, & chairman, 1946-57, lived here. A protégé of industrialist Charles M. Schwab, he helped make the company the U.S.'s largest shipbuilder & 2nd largest steelmaker - a formidable supplier in two world wars.

Marker is on West ...

The Capture of Alexandria

Oxon Cove Park

“It was indeed a day and night of horrors, the fleet … lay directly before our house.”

Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815.

From this farm, Mary DeButts saw a small fleet ...