Rich Mountain / Hart House

(East Side):

Battle of Rich Mountain fought here July 11, 1861. In a surprise attack, Gen. W.S. Rosecrans defeated Confederates led by Capt. J.A. deLagnel. Battle was decisive in McClellan's N.W. Virginia campaign.

(West Side):

Rich Mountain battle was waged near Hart House ...

Martin C. Weber, Sr.

Founder Land O' Lakes Leagues

The Land O' Lakes baseball leagues were founded in 1922 by Martin C. Weber of Merton, Wis. It started with 8 teams in baseball. It became Wisconsin's oldest and largest amateur baseball league.

In early 1950, the ...

The Hart House

Rich Mountain Battlefield

Here stood the Hart House, surrounded by fierce fighting during the Battle of Rich Mountain. Joseph Hart, grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was an avid Union supporter who fled with his family when ...

Dominican Proto-Martyrs of America

A.D. 1549 † A.D. 1965

Near this spot on Tampa Bay

Father Louis Cancer

and

Three Religious

In search of a mission site in lands of

the Timucuan and Caloosa Nations under

Royal Order of Phillip II of Spain

suffered martyrdom at hands of

hostile Indians.

Marker is on Bayshore ...

J.E.B. Stuart's Jump

The ground occupied by the Confederate cavalry during the Battle of Hanover was the rich, rolling farmland found in much of southern Pennsylvania. On the eastern side of the Westminster Road there was a field of timothy, a grass widely ...

Stephens – Townsend – Murphy Party of 1844

First Pioneer Wagons Over The Sierra Nevada

On May 22, 1844, this small wagon party of 50 men, women and children “jumped off” from Council Bluffs, Iowa, bound for California. These courageous pioneers were the first emigrants to take wagons over ...

Military Order of the Purple Heart

1782 1932

This memorial is erected by

the Military Order of

the Purple Heart

in revered memory of the

men and women of our military services

who sacrificed their lives in combat action

against our nation's armed enemies.

They unselfishly served and suffered,

for neither fame nor glory,

but for ...

Dumbarton House

Headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America

The site was part of a tract called “The Rock of Dumbarton” patented 1703 by Nintan Beall.

The house was probably started 1799 by Samuel Jackson. It was completed 1805 by Joseph ...

Steuart's Brigade

Johnson's Division - Ewell's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Johnson's Division

Steuart's Brigade

1st. Maryland Battalion

1st. and 3rd. North Carolina

10th. 23rd. and 37th. Virginia Infantry

July 1 Arrived about nightfall and took position near Hanover Road about a mile east of Rock Creek ...

Kilpatrick Headquarters

On June 30, 1863, Gen. Kilpatrick, commanding the Third Division of the Union Cavalry, took headquarters in this building after part of his forces had been attacked by Confederate Cavalry SE of town.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (Pennsylvania ...