First Army Corps

Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division

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First Army Corps.

Magilton's Brigade, Meade's Division,

Col. Albert Magilton, 4th Penn. Reserves, Commanding.

Organization.

3rd Penn. Reserve Infantry,

4th Penn. Reserve Infantry,

7th Penn. Reserve Infantry,

8th Penn. Reserve Infantry,

September 17, 1862.

Magilton's Brigade formed line at 5:30 a.m. on the left of Anderson's ...

Peet’s Coffee & Tea

Berkeley History

A revolution began here in 1966 when Alfred H. Peet (1920-2007) opened his first coffee roastery and store. Arriving in San Francisco in 1955, “Mr. Peet” was dismayed by the poor quality of coffee in his adopted country. ...

Old Clarkstown Reformed Church Cemetery

A Dutch meeting house and burial ground occupied this site ca. 1740. The First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church was organized here in 1750. A sandstone building replaced the old wooden structure in 1826. This cemetery, in use for almost two ...

Bank of Campbell (Farley Building)

Campbell Historical Location

Campbell’s first bank operated here from 1895 – 1911. Purchased by Guy Farley in 1923. Campbell Avenue’s oldest commercial building.

Marker is on East Campbell Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

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Franklin

Settled, 1769. Named for its founder, Francis Evick. John Van Meter first reached the South Branch, 1725. Roger Dyer and others came in 1745. Site of Federal camp of Gen. John C. Fremont, 1862, on way to attack "Stonewall" Jackson.

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First Army Corps

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First Army Corps.

Anderson's Brigade of Meade's Division bivouacked in this low field the night of September 16, 1862.

Its outposts were established in the south edge of the wood in front and beyond the Hagerstown Pike to the west.

Marker is on ...

First Pecan Trees Grown Here About 1840

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Grown from pecan nuts found floating at sea by Capt. Samuel F. Flood and planted by his wife, nee Rebecca Grovenstine, on Block 47.

The remainder of these nuts were planted by St. Joseph Sebastian Arnow in the north half ...

Fort Wagner

Site one mile east at

junction of Beaver Creek

and Reedy Branch

built in 1760 by

Hans Wagner

as a refuge from the

Cherokee Indians

Marker is on State Highway 215 0.1 miles north of Fort Wagner Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Feasterville Female and Male Academy

Around 1840 an academy was established at this site by John Feaster, a noted landowner of this area, for the education of female and male students. By 1842, both academy building and a boarding house (dormitory)had been erected. Mr. Feaster, ...

Colonel William Farr

This bridge dedicated

to

Col. William Farr

(1748-1794)

Revolutionary War hero

(Battles of Cowpens, Fishdam, Blackstock,

Musgrove Mills and others)

1st Sheriff of Union County

1st Union Co. Rep. to the S.C. House (1791-1794)

one of the founders of Pinckneyville

justice of the quorum

planter, merchant, father of 11 children

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