The Baltimore & Frederick-Town Turnpike

A Transportation Revolution started here

Maryland toll roads helped revolutionize American travel. The Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike began with a tollgate, placed near this corner in 1807. For

a few cents, you could head west on a “smooth” road that ...

Battle of Wytheville

Into the Valley of Death

On July 13, 1863, Union Col. John T. Toland led 872 officers and men of

the 34th Regiment Mounted Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Camp Piatt,

West Virginia, into Southwest Virginia to attack the railroads, telegraphs,

and salt and lead ...

A Most Desirable Spot For Camping

The Lone Elm Campground

The land here at Lone Elm met the three requirements for a stopover for travelers on the trail...wood, water, and grass. Wood for campfires and wagon repairs, water for the support of people and animals, and grass ...

Arnoldsburg Skirmish

Site of Camp McDonald, set up, 1862, occupied by the 11th W. Va. Inf., U.S.V. Scene of engagement, May 6, 1862, when Federals under Maj. George C. Trimble beat off an attack by Confederate Moccasin Rangers under Capt. Geo. Downs.

Marker ...

Polar Bears

Dedicated to the American North Russian Expeditionary Forces known as the "Polar Bears".

From September 4, 1918, to June 15, 1919, fifty-five hundred American Soldiers of the 339th Infantry regiment (with elements of the 310th Engineers and the 337th Ambulance ...

Jacob Van Aernam

Jacob Van Aernam

1723 - 1813

Capt. 3rd Albany Regiment

Leader of Patriot forces

in the Helderberg region

during American Revolution

Lived on farm here

Marker is on Altamont-Voorheesville Road (New York Route 156) 0.4 miles north of Brandle Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Highlands Doughboy World War I Monument

Veterans

We Will Never

Forget

Erected by

Friends and Citizens

of

Highlands, New Jersey

Marker is at the intersection of Portland Rd and Highland Ave, on the right when traveling north on Portland Rd.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Trussville, Alabama

Trussville was settled between 1816 and 1819 by a few settlers from the Carolinas prior to Alabama becoming the 22nd state in December 1819. The First Baptist Church, Cahaba, was organized in 1821. Trussville’s first postmaster in 1833 was Arthur ...

The Legend of the Baby in the Well

This original dug well relates to one of the several fascinating legends of Zachariah and Elizabeth DeWitt. As reported by Ralph McGinnis in The History of Oxford, Ohio, from the Earliest Days to the Present, Zachariah heard Elizabeth's screams as ...

Stevens' Battery

5th Maine, 1st Corps

(Front):Stevens' Battery

5th Maine, 1st Corps.

Fought here

July 1,2,3, 1863.

Also engaged

July 1st north of the

Seminary.

Ammunition expended

979 rounds.

(Right):"In the assault upon

East Cemetery Hill

in the evening of

July 2nd, the enemy,

(Hays' and Hoke's Brigades)

exposed their left flank to

Stevens' Battery

which poured a terrible ...