Newberry College

1868-1877

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Newberry College, founded in 1856, moved here from Newberry in 1868 and remained in Walhalla until 1877, returning to Newberry for the opening of the 1877-78 academic year. The Lutheran college struggled during the Civil War and its aftermath as ...

Bedford County

Formed on March 9, 1771 from Cumberland County, it first embraced most of western Pennsylvania. Named for its county seat (formerly Raystown) incorporated 1795. In 1758, Fort Bedford was erected here, and Forbes Road - to become a major highway ...

First Brigade

Second Division - Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps Second Division

First Brigade

Col. Charles Candy

5th. 7th. 29th. 66th. Ohio

28th. 147th. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 1 Arrived at 5 p.m. and took position on the left of Third Brigade between the First Corps and ...

Battle of Rutherford's Farm

Union Victory

Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early attacked the defenses of Washington, D.C., in July 1864, then retreated to the Shenandoah Valley. Union Gen. Horatio G. Wright pursued him, and after a sharp fight and Confederate victory at Cool Spring on ...

Craycroft Building

Originally a log building constructed in 1850 by John Craycroft & Company. It housed the famous Craycroft Saloon which boasted a 70 foot bar made from one rip-sawed board. Destroyed by fire, on February 19, 1852, it was immediately replaced ...

Albany - Capital of New York 200 Years

In Honor of the 200th Anniversary of the

1797 City of Albany 1997

Serving as the Capital City of the State of New York

For twenty years, after the establishment of the State of new York in 1777, the State Legislature moved annually ...

Old Abe, the War Eagle

This wayside is part of the old McCann farm, childhood home of Old Abe, the War Eagle. In the Spring of 1861 a band of hungry Chippewa came to the McCann farm and traded a young eagle for corn. The ...

John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg

On October 25,1755 John Harris, Founder of Harrisburg, and a party of 40 men who came up the river to investigate the (John) Penn's Creek Massacre, were ambushed by a party of Indians near the mouth of this creek at ...

The Betts House, 1804

The oldest building in Cincinnati's basin area, the Betts House exemplifies a national trend on the expanding frontier of impermanent log and frame structures giving way to more permanent brick architecture. It is the earliest surviving brick building in ...

Daniel Boone Trail Marker

#26

Donated to the Town of Blowing Rock in loving memory of two brothers and Blowing Rock's sons, Paul and Glenn

Coffey by the Coffey Family

This monument was erected two blocks north of this site on September 1, 1927. ...