Henry Box Brown
Born into slavery about 1815 at The Hermitage Plantation near here, Henry Brown was working in Richmond by 1830. Brown mailed himself to Philadelphia...
Fort Pocahontas
South of here, on a bluff overlooking the James River, stands the half-mile-long Fort Pocahontas, built in the spring of 1864 by Union soldiers during...
Washington Crossing Park
This site preserves the area where George Washington crossed the Delaware in order to attack Trenton and change the tide of the Revolutionary War.
Fort Mulligan
Petersburg, West Virginia | Built in 1863, the fort survives on the outskirts of the town of Petersburg, West Virginia on high ground commanding the...
Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park
Though the Civil War battles commemorated by Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park took place before the formal end of slavery in Tennessee...
Medal of Honor Museum
Known as "the Recipients' Museum," the headquarters and archives of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society are located aboard the museum ship USS...