Quantcast
Channel: The Historical Marker Database - New Entries
Viewing all 103684 articles
Browse latest View live

Croxton's Brigade

$
0
0
near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Croxton's Brigade. Brannan's Division — Thomas' Corps. Colonel John T. Croxton Sept. 19, 1863, 7:30 A.M., 1st Position. 10th Indiana - Colonel William B. Carroll 74th Indiana - Colonel Charles W. Chapman. 4th Kentucky - . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tobacco Barn

$
0
0
Millersville, Maryland.
Once harvested, tobacco leaves were placed on stakes and then hung across large poles from the ceiling down, to cure or dry and preserve the leaves. Curing was accomplished by a variety of ways, including using heated metal . . .

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kinder Farmhouse Project

$
0
0
Millersville, Maryland.
Restoration of the exterior and the interior first floor of this building to represent a typical late 1930s, early 1940s Anne Arundel County farmhouse. The farmhouse was built around 1925 by Henry Kinder and his wife Hilda . . .

(Agriculture • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Yorktown Bicentennial Pine Trees

$
0
0
Yorktown, Virginia.
These pines were planted on 16 November 1981 in recognition of the Yorktown Victory Bicentennial by The Honorable John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the Army

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gen. John T. Wilder

$
0
0
Monterey, Tennessee.
Born in New York's Catskill Mountains, Union general and postwar Tennessee industralist John T. Wilder joined the 17th Indian Volunteers when the Civil War began. Wilder and his 17thh Indian Mounted Infantry (nickname . . .

(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Charles Cox House

$
0
0
Yorktown, Virginia.
The "Trustees to the Portland of York Towne" deeded this corner lot to Charles Cox, "Inholder" and "Planter" in 1706. Cox probably built the house pictured here before selling the property in 1729 to Thomas Nelson, in whose . . .

(Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Federal Field Hospital

$
0
0
near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
Federal Field Hospital at the Battle of Tebbs Bend Chief Surgeon Boliver Barnum and Assistant Surgeon John N. Gregg worked in this field hospital after the battle. Amputation was often the method of treating arm and leg . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Early Colonial Custom House

$
0
0
Yorktown, Virginia.
Built in 1706 Yorktown Was made a port of entry at a General Assembly of the Colony and Dominion of Williamsburg the twenty-third day of October 1705 in the fourth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Anne The Comte de . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Federal Stockade

$
0
0
near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
Federal Stockade Undefended—January 1, 1863 About 3,900 Confederates under John Hunt Morgan had been on an extensive raid into Kentucky in December and were returning to Tennessee after their highly successful Christmas . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"No Day to Surrender"

$
0
0
near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
The main Federal defensive position was located 125 yards to your left. Col. Orlando H. Moore, with inexperienced 25th Michigan troops and outnumbered three or more to one, chose to defend this narrow neck of land. Steep . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Battle of Green River Bridge

$
0
0
near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
Here on July 4, 1863, Confederates of Morgan's Brigade under Col. A.R. Johnson attacked entrenched position of Federal forces under Col. O.H. Moore. They were repulsed eight times.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Morgan's Demand for Surrender

$
0
0
near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
7:00 AM Situation: Union Colonel Moore's forward rifle-pit was in the ravine to your left. The Confederate forces were on your right preparing to attack. Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan penned a note and gave it to Lt. Col. . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Confederate Hospital

$
0
0
near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
Built circa 1840, this double-pen log house originally stood on the Campbellsville - Columbia Turnpike. The occupants of the house witnessed thousands of soldiers and hundreds of wagons of supplies from both northern and . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Confederate Artillery Position

$
0
0
Campbellsville, Kentucky.
Major Edward P. Byrne Commander of the Confederate Artillery A native Kentuckian, Byrne was living in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, when the war broke out. His first battery of six brass field pieces, their . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hickman County Courthouse

$
0
0
Centerville, Tennessee.
In 1864, the Hickman County Courthouse and Centerville's business district around the public square became a burned-out war zone. Confederate Col. Jacob B. "Jake" Biffle pursued Col. John Murphy's 2nd Tennessee Mounted . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Allegheny Soldiers' Lot

$
0
0
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Civil War Dead An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War (1861-1865). As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union troops. This . . .

(War, US Civil • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic City Park Golf Course

$
0
0
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Designed by Tom Bendelow of Aberdeen Scotland. Known as the Johnny Appleseed of American Golf. Oldest municipal golf course in Baton Rouge. Est. in 1928; golden age of golf in America.

(Man-Made Features • Sports) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Massachusetts Memorial

$
0
0
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In memory of the officers and men of the Federal Army and Navy from Massachusetts who lost their lives in the Department of the Gulf during the Civil War 1861-1865 Organizations that served in the Department 4th Infantry . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bat Palace

$
0
0
, Guatemala.
Palacio de los Murciélogos También se conoce como Palacio de las Ventanas. Es un complejo palaciego que en el interior cuenta con varias abitaciones con bancas, distribuidoras en dobe galería en el primer nivel y una sola . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Twin Pyramid Complex N

$
0
0
, Guatemala.
Se ubica sobre una plataforma natural de base cuadrada, sobre la cual construyeron una pirámide escalonada en el extremo Este y otra en el extermo Oeste de la plaza. Frente a la fachada principal de la pirámide del Este . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Viewing all 103684 articles
Browse latest View live


Latest Images