Buschbeck's Brigade

Steinwehr's Division.

Buschbeck's Brigade

Steinwehr's Division - Howard's Corps.

Col. Adolphus Buschbeck

Nov. 25, 1863

33d New Jersey - Col. G. W. Mindil.

134th New York - Lieut. Col. A. H. Jackson.

154th New York - Col. Patrick H. Jones.

Sunbury

Laid out 1772 as the county seat of Northumberland on the site of Indian Shamokin by surveyor-General Lukens and William Maclay. Borough incorporation Mar. 24, 1797. Here Fort Augusta was built in 1756. Historic center of travel, trade and industry.

Brigadier General Peter Gansevoort, Jr.

Colonel in the Continental Army. Served in Canada with Montgomery in 1775 in campaign against Quebec. Successfully defended Fort Stanwix in 1777 against the allied British and Indian forces under St.Leger, preventing their junction with Burgoyne at Saratoga. He took ...

St. Albans Archeological Site

Discovered in 1963 by Sam Kessell. Recognized as one of the oldest and deepest stratified sites of the Early Archaic period (8,000-10,000 BC). Artifacts recovered document early inhabitants who camped here along Kanawha River, were small hunter-gather groups with ancestral ...

Thompson House / Skirmish on the Blackwater

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This antebellum home, constructed ca. 1847 by Benjamin Woodson Thompson (1809 - 1876), partner in the Forsyth and Simpson sawmill enterprise in Bagdad, is the best remaining Florida Panhandle example of a symmetrical Greek Revival structure having a double verandah ...

Three Great Boat Yards, One Location

As you walk among these buildings, imagine wooden boats taking form. Picture men sweating in the hot sun as they plank a hull, caulk a seam or varnish a rail. Envision Navy officers in khaki uniforms boarding vessels for sea ...

Reuben Ford and Hopeful Baptist Church

Hopeful Meeting House began services under the ministry of Baptist pastor Reuben Ford in 1807. Ford played an important role in the post-Revolutionary struggle for religious freedom. In the 1780s, he lobbied the Virginia General Assembly on behalf of Virginia's ...

Joe Brennan Saloon

Historical Plaza Walking Tour Stop 12

Nicknamed "Gambler's Roost", Brennan's Saloon on the south side of this street was a favorite of the sporting crowd. One of the most notorious gunmen in the west, Ben Thompson, ran the Faro tables here. ...

Beebe General Store

Historical Plaza Walking Tour Stop 13

Directly across South Main Street, a double building housed the general store owned by Jerome Beebe. He sold groceries, wines and liquor, and reapers and plows. The events of Sunday, August 15, 1873, led up ...

Black Walnut Trees

Campbell Historical Location

Black Walnut Trees planted about 1885 by William A. Swope, Son-In-Law of Benjamin Campbell, and daughters Alda Swope Blaine, Ethel Swope Davis, and Lena Swope French.

Marker is on East Campbell Avenue.

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