The Burning of Washington, D.C.

Oxon Hill Farm - Oxon Cove Park

“I cannot express to you the distress it has occasioned at the Battle of Bladensburg. We heard every fire. …Our house was shook repeatedly by the firing upon forts and bridges, and illuminated by ...

Battery Haskell

(Front text)

This two-gun Confederate artillery battery and magazine is all that remains of Battery Haskell, a large fortification built on Legare’s Point in 1863 to help defend James and Morris Islands. This two-gun battery was just behind the left ...

Root Cellar

Oxon Hill Farm - Oxon Cove Park

This root cellar may not look much like a refrigerator. But in the 1830s, it was probably the closest thing the DeButts family had.

A good root cellar is damp, well ventilated, and very ...

Narcissa Whitman

Narcissa Whitman, trail-blazer and martyred missionary, is one of the great heroines of the frontier West. In 1836 she and Eliza Spalding, following the north side of the Platte on horseback, became the first white women to cross the American ...

Capt. Curtis Blakeman and the Marine Settlement

In memory of

Capt. Curtis Blakeman

and the

Marine Settlement

Just north of here, in 1819, a group of sea captains,

Blakeman, Allen, Breath, Deselherst, and Mead

from Connecticut, arrived and built log cabins,

naming the settlement Marine.

Captain Curtis Blakeman,

our great, great, great grandfather,

built an ox driven ...

Surrogates Court

Formerly Hall of Records

Completed in 1907 by the firm of Morgan and Slattere and based on earlier design by John R Holmes, this building displays the grandeur of scale and eclection design associated with the Beaux Arts style. The ...

Brignoli Building

1858

Built of native greenstone by Bartolomeo Brignole for a general store. Operated by his family until 1944.

Marker is on Main Street (Old Highway 49) south of Randolph Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Southern Branch Chapel / Battle of Great Bridge / Wilson Family

Site of

Southern Branch Chapel

A Chapel of ease of the Anglican Church

for the

Elizabeth River Parish 1701 - 1761

St. Brides Parish 1761 - 1845

Encampment area for American Patriots

Battle of Great Bridge

December 1775

First land battle for the American Revolution fought in Virginia

Residence of ...

From Lewis and Clark to the Future

Change came slowly to Spirit Mound after 1804. For 55 years the area remained the land of the Yankton Sioux, with fur traders conducting business from posts on the Missouri. The tallgrass prairie continued to thrive as it had for ...

St. Luke's Church

This sanctuary, built 1824 as St. Luke's

Episcopal Church, housed an active

Episcopal congregation until just before

the Civil War. It was sold to the

trustees of St. Luke's Methodist

Church in 1875 and served that

congregation since. St. Luke's

is listed in the ...