Perth Amboy Bluff
Historic location where Benjamin Franklin first landed in his initial journey from Boston to Philadelphia. Years later, in 1776, Benjamin Franklin...
High Bridge
Fortifications to the original 1854 High Bridge were built, in part, with the help of area free men of color who were conscripted for Confederate...
Ethan Allen Monument at Greenmount Cemetery
Burial site of Ethan Allen, one of the founders of Vermont and military leader who helped to capture Fort Ticonderoga. The statue on top is...
Martin Buchanan, USCT
After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, the U.S. Army began recruiting both free blacks and slaves in occupied areas. Among the 250...
Christiansburg Industrial Institute
In 1866, Captain Charles S. Schaeffer, a Freedmen's Bureau agent, organized a school for blacks on the hill just to the southeast of this location.
Jefferson School
The name Jefferson School has a long association with African American education in Charlottesville. It was first used in the 1860s in a Freedmen's...