School Number One

“The Academy”

Belleville’s First Public School

Established 1853

Belleville Historical Society

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Belleville Tnpk (New Jersey Route 7) and Main Street, on the left when traveling west.

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British Trenches

During the Siege

— of —

Fort Stanwix

Aug. 2-22, 1777

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The British dug their

zigzag trenches or

approaches, directed

against the northwest

bastion, across the site

of this park.

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Marker is at the intersection of North James Street and East Park Street, on the left when traveling ...

Fighting at the Cole Plantation: The “Battle of Acorn Run”

You are looking north of the Goldsboro Road at the site of the former Willis Cole plantation. Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton chose this ground (a mixture of dense vegetation and open fields) as an ideal location for Confederate forces to ...

War Comes to the Brothertons

The great battle raged around this family farm

At the time of the Battle of Chickamauga, George and Mary Brotherton and their children lived in a log house here. In the surrounding fields they grazed cattle and grew corn and hay. ...

Demonbreum's Cave

Jaques-Timothe De Montbrun, French Canadian fur trader and later lieutenant governor of the Illinois Country, visited in this area as early as 1769. On at least one occasion he took refuge in the cave 0.9 mile N. when attacked by ...

Sampson W. Keeble

Sampson W. Keeble, barber, businessman, and civic leader, became the first African-American to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly. Serving from 1873 to 1875, Keeble was appointed to the House Military Affairs Committee and the Immigration Committee. After service in ...

The Columbia (S.C.) Holocaust Memorial

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Remember

[Star of David]

In Sacred

Memory

Of The

6,000,000

(Map Included)

(Left Panel)

During the Holocaust, 1933 - 45, six million European Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany and its

collaborators. Millions more of the innocent suffered

persecution and death as victims of the State-sponsored Nazi ...

Thompson's Rifle Battalion:

Capt. John Lowdon's Company

Recruited from nearby points in June 1775, Lowdon's Company was part of the first battalion in the colonies authorized by Congress. Among those who entered Continental service in this company was Timothy Murphy, whose many feats of ...

Village of Bentonville

You are looking at the village of Bentonville. This small hamlet bore the name of the largest battle ever fought in North Carolina. Named after local resident John Benton, the hamlet had a post office as early as 1849. In ...

Brookhaven Historic District

National Register of Historic Places

Historic Brookhaven is the first planned golf club community in Georgia, having been built around the Capital City Country Club between 1910 and 1940.

Marker is at the intersection of Brookhaven Drive NE and East Brookhaven Drive ...