Avenue of Flags

Honoring deceased veterans

Beverly National Cemetery

Beverly, New Jersey

Sponsored by

Avenue of Flags Committee

Nov. 9, 1983

Marker is on Bridgeboro Road north of Mount Holly Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Four Heroic Chaplains

Honoring the

Four Heroic Chaplains

of World War II who gave their

lives so that others could live

when the S.S. Dorchester

sank off Greenland February 3, 1943

Lt. G.L. Fox

Protestant

Lt. J.D. Washington

Catholic

Lt. C.V. Poling

Protestant

Heart of the Community

Scotch-Irish Presbyterians called their worship places Meeting Houses to emphasize that the structure is a building and that the church is the body of believers. The community came to the Meeting House not only to worship, but also for recreation, ...

A Fight on the Potomac

A Fight on the Potomac took place here on September 25, 1861. According to Confederate Sgt. Wilmot Walter Curry, his unit was ordered to construct a battery at Freestone Point in order to deflect attention from larger, more permanent batteries ...

Ribbons of Steel

Railroads were charted in Minnesota as early as 1853, but it was not until 1862 that Minnesota's first railroad began to operate on ten miles of track connecting St. Paul with St. Anthony (now part of Minneapolis). In 1870, the ...

Model Farm

Established by Quakers 1867 to stem westward migration by promoting improved agricultural practices. Tract, sold in 1891, was ½ mi. E.

Marker is at the intersection of Model Farm Road and Baltimore Street, on the left when traveling east on Model ...

Corricks Ford Battlefield

Tale of the Monuments

"No shaft of shining marble, new

From the sculptor's hand we raise for you

No, here we lay

A boulder drawn from the river-side

Where brave men battled and bled and died."

Karl Myers, Ode to the

Battle of Corricks Ford, 1926

On US ...

Dartford–Green Lake Dam

On this site in 1845 Anson Dart built the first dam and sawmill, raising the level of Green Lake and forming the Millpond and Dartford Bay.

In 1850, John Sherwood opened a new outlet from the pond with a mill race ...

Fort Plain

?

1776-1788

Northern limit of raid

by Brant's Indians-Tories

16 killed - 60 captured

100 buildings burned

Aug. 2, 1780

Marker is on Canal Street (Route 5S), on the left when traveling west.

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Camp Fisher

Located ¾ mile east, Camp Fisher was a camp of instruction for North Carolina troops in 1861 – 1862. Camp Fisher was named for Col. Charles Fisher of Salisbury, after his death at the battle of First Manassas.

Marker is at ...