Sentry Box
Brothers-in-arms and brothers-in-law George Weedon and Hugh Mercer purchased land on what is now Caroline Street in Fredericksburg, VA. After 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...
Franklin And Armfield Slave Office
Isaac Franklin and John Armfield leased this brick building with access to the wharves and docks as a holding pen for enslaved people being shipped...
Waveland
Lexington, Kentucky | Both Confederate and Union armies prized the Standardbred horses raised on this historic site and modern day State Park, a...
People's Memorial Cemetery
Twenty-eight members of Petersburg’s large community of free African Americans purchased a one-acre tract to serve as a burial ground in 1840...
Museum of Science and History
Jacksonville, Florida | This general museum includes an exhibit on the Union transport ship Maple Leaf, which struck a Confederate mine in St. Johns...