Southport’s First Fire Alarm

January 1916. Founded in 1893, the Southport Volunteer Fire Department was officially organized with the election of officers and adoption of a constitution and by laws on 21 January, 1916. Authorized purchase of the city’s first fire alarm bell was ...

Puddin’ Swamp 1776 – The Frontier

During the American Revolution, Puddin’ Swamp and the Black River were on the frontier. Brave and adventurous pioneer families settled on the higher ground near the Rivers. Pioneers cooked over open fires, grew their food, tapped pines for rosin and ...

Twelfth Army Corps

Stainrook's Brigade, Greene's Division

U.S.A.

Twelfth Army Corps.

Stainrook's Brigade, Greene's Division.

Col. Henry J. Stainrook, 109th Penn. Inf., Commanding.

Organization.

3d Maryland Infantry,

102d New York Infantry,

111th Pennsylvania Infantry.

September 17, 1862.

Stainrook's Brigade, on the left of the Division, advancing in line south of the Smoketown Road, ...

Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints

Site of five buildings 1897-1986. Enemies of church burned two, tornado destroyed one. 1994 marks 100 years of Mormon presence in this community.

Marker is at the intersection of Centerville Road (State Highway 20-67) and Park Road, on the left when ...

Clifts Plantation Site

A Busy Tobacco Plantation Once Flourished Here

Between 1976 and 1978, archaeological excavations on this spot revealed the remains of the "Clifts," a busy tobacco plantation. When first occupied in 1670, this land belonged to Thomas Pope, an English merchant and ...

The Site of Old Fort Schuyler

40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

The site of ...

Eighth U.S. Infantry

Headquarters - Provost Guard

Army of the Potomac

Headquarters

Provost Guard

Eighth U.S. Infantry

Eight Companies

Captain Edwin W. H. Read commanding

July 1 Arrived in the morning and engaged in provost duty until the close of the battle.

Marker is on Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on ...

Clifts Plantation Burial Ground

Who Was Buried Here?

The Clifts Plantation cemetery was located on the opposite side of the current road. Because of long distances to the nearest church in the 17th and early 18th centuries, plantation burial grounds were common in the Chesapeake ...

Milford World War I Veterans Monument

1914 World War 1918

These brave men of the Borough of Milford N.J. answered the call of their country during the World War.

Jake Bazanka •

Russell Bunn •

Pierre Drewson •

Morris Geddis •

George Haney •

Karl Holden •

Cyril ...

Point of Rocks

U.S. Military Hospital Site

Point of Rocks, named for a sandstone cliff on the Appomattox River, marked the southern end of the Union defensive line that stretched across the Bermuda Hundred peninsula. In May 1864, the Union army seized property east ...