El Tiradito

(The Wishing Shrine)

This is the only shrine in the United States dedicated to the soul of a sinner buried in unconsecrated ground. It is affectionately called "El Tiradito"- the castaway. The many legends about its origin all involve a tragic ...

A Well Preserved Union Artillery Position

You are standing in front of a Union artillery battery, located on a commanding hill about 400 yards behind the front lines. From here Union officers watched for activity along the Confederate lines, and opened fire with a barrage of ...

Hudson and the Underground Railroad

Historic Underground Railroad Site

Side A

Hudson had a long tradition of being an anti-slavery town. By 1826, records show that the town's founder, David Hudson, was hiding runaway slaves at his home. Early Settler Owen Brown and his family ...

The Burial Site of Captain John Herbert Dent

This U.S. Naval officer was born in Maryland

in 1782 and died at his plantation in St.

Bartholomew's Parish, S.C. in 1823. He served

as acting captain of the frigate "Constitution" in

1804 during the war with Tripoli, and was senior

officer ...

Alberto Santos-Dumont Memorial

Parque Nacional do Iguaçu

As alturas não me intimidam. —Santos-Dumont, Foz do Iguaçu, 24 Abril 1916.

Posso dizer-ihe, Frederico Engel, que estas maravilhas em torno das cataratas não podem continuar a pertencer a um particular (Santos–Dumont) Foz, 25 de Abril de 1916.

Com ...

Stangetti – Solari – Cademartori Store

The stone portion built circa 1879 by Bernardo Bisso, called Stangetti, who ran a store until its sale to Sebastian Solari , circa 1881-83, who added the wooden portion and also operated a store. The stone section has walls more ...

A Dreadful Harvest

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

The grim drama at Cold Harbor cost some 13,000 Federals and nearly 5,0000 Confederates killed, wounded, or captured. Southern morale soared after the battle, while Grant’s men were embittered by the lopsided defeat. One Union ...

The Blind Knight

4-½ mi. S.E., near Liberty, Francis Joseph Campbell lived as a boy. Blinded in 1836, when 4 years old, he was educated in the first class of the State School for the Blind, later in Boston and Europe. Settling in ...

There Was Work To Be Done

The CCC worked within state and national parks and forest areas across the nation combating soil erosion, fighting forest fires and building park facilities. At Big Spring, boys from 3 separate camps (Co. 1710, 734 and 1740) kept busy with ...

From Farmland to Forest

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

Time has changed this landscape dramatically since the war. In 1864, much of the Co1d Harbor area was cleared farmland. One Federal believed this openness of the land was “the greatest part of the misery” ...