Pierce Bridge

By 1920 the adjacent road, Rt. 302 was part of the Teddy Roosevelt (TR) Trail, which ran from Maine to Oregon. It was an important way for tourists to access the White Mountains. After the 1927 floods, many bridges needed ...

Champaign County's Lincoln

(Top Section)

Champaign County was always on Lincoln’s circuit. Abraham Lincoln spent nearly 20 years of his life practicing law on the 8th Judicial Circuit, traveling from one county seat to another. Even as the circuit shrank while population ...

St. Paul’s Church

St. Paul’s was begun in 1891 to serve local ice & quarry workers. Land was donated by John McGuiness, quarry owners donated the brick. The 1st Mass was on Easter, 1894. The old post office, bought for $485, became the ...

First Massachusetts Sharpshooters

First

Massachusetts

Sharp Shooters

Unattached

July 2nd. 1863

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Doc S.C. Linebaugh Park

[ Dedication plaque mounted on Pine Tree near entrance to the park: ]

Bruce Linebaugh

In memory of

Bruce Linebaugh

Member of one of

White Pines

founding families.

Log truck driver

for over 50 years,

and faithful

supporter of

Linebaugh Park

[ Marker at entrance to park: ]

Glen Linebaugh

In Memory of

Glen Linebaugh

A ...

This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road

Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route. Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the Village of Rye.

Remove not ...

88th Pennsylvania Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 1st Corps

(Top):Arrived here in time to assist

in repelling the enemy's charge

on July 3rd 1863 and

remained until the morning of

July 5th.

(Front):88 Pa. Vol.

3nd Brigade

3nd Division

1st Corps

Men engaged 294

Men killed 10

Men wounded 50

Men missing 53

erected by survivors

(Base):The principal ...

Custer's 1874 Expedition

During the summer of 1874, General George Armstrong Custer led the first official government expedition to the Black Hills, which the Sioux Indians claimed as their territory. Although the United States Government officially sent this expedition of more than 1,000 ...

Sixth Army Corps

Irwin's Brigade, Smith's Division

U.S.A.

Sixth Army Corps.

Irwin's Brigade, Smith's Division.

Col. William H. Irwin, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry, Commanding.

Organization.

7th Maine Infantry,

20th 33rd 49th & 77th New York Infantry.

September 17, 1862.

Irwin's Brigade reached the field about noon of the 17th, formed line across the ...

6th Independent Battery, New York Artillery

1st Brigade Horse Artillery

(Around the Base):6th Independent Battery

New York Artillery

1st Brig. Horse Artillery

Cavalry Corps

(back):Occupied this position

July 3rd, 1863.

Mustered into service

June 15th, 1861.

Mustered out of service

July 8th, 1865.

Marker is on Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling south. ...