North Carolinians at the Battle of Bentonville

In memory

of the

North Carolinians

who

fought and died

in the

Battle of Bentonville

March 19-21, 1865

Marker is at the intersection of Mill Creek Church Road and Harper House Road, on the left when traveling north on Mill Creek Church Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

In Memory of Col. Raynal C. Bolling

[Panel No. 1]:

"Whatever happens to me will be the result of action, not inaction or drift."

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Confederate Laboratory

Brown’s Island was the site of the Confederate Laboratory, a major powder-loading and cartridge-producing plant during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, the hazardous work of loading powder was carried out here on Brown’s Island because of its separation from ...

Nelson County / Albemarle County

Nelson County. In the foothills of Virginia’s Piedmont,

Nelson County was formed in 1807 from Amherst County. The county was named for Thomas Nelson, Jr., governor of Virginia from June to November 1781. The county seat is Lovingston. The Nelson County ...

Belle Isle

During the winter of 1863-1864, the island visible from this spot held up to 8,000 Union army prisoners.

After the outbreak of the Civil War, prisoners poured into Richmond. Camps built only as transport stations soon became permanent. Over the ...

George Washington: Statesman and Public Servant

(Front):

George Washington: Statesman

Following the Treaty of Paris that guaranteed American independence from Great Britain in 1783, Washington became an influential mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Washington took his oath of office as ...

Bentonville Battlefield Driving Tour

In the forests and fields around the North Carolina village of Bentonville, the armies of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Union Gen. William T. Sherman fought their last major engagement of the Civil War on March 19-21, 1865. Sherman ...

Niagara Harbour and Dock Company

Formed by local businessmen in 1831, the Niagara Harbour and Dock Company created a shipping basin here on the Niagara River by hiring hundreds of labourers to excavate a riverside marsh. By the late 1830s the company employed close to ...

Hasbrouck House

Built 1712, by Abraham, the

patentee, once soldier in

English Army, friend of

Gov. Andros. Kitchen scene

of cock fights.

Marker is on Huguenot.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Blaskets

This group, the most westerly off the Irish coast, comprises 7 sizeable islands and isolated rocks spread in a line west by south over 2½ miles of the Atlantic, the largest (Great Blasket) 2 miles off shore.

Antiquities of the early ...