High Bridge and Longwood Valley Branch

N.J. Central Railroad completed in 1875 to bring iron ore from Morris County to forges at High Bridge. In use until 1976 when the track right-of-way was sold.

Marker is on Cokesbury Road (County Route 639) near Columbia Trail (recreational), on ...

Corricks Ford Battlefield

First to Fall

"How gallantly he died in the discharge of his duty."

President Jefferson Davis CSA

On July 13, 1861, some 3,500 Confederate soldiers under Gen. Robert S. Garnett crossed Shavers Fork here while chased by Union forces in a desperate bid ...

WW II U.S. Submarine Memorial

"We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds."

Fleet Admiral C.W. Nimitz, USN

In memory of the crews of the 52 United States submarines lost in ...

Birdsboro

[Corporate Limit Marker]

Named for

William Bird

First Settler

Founded 1740

Marker is on Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 345/724), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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 ...

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 ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson

Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born.

Marker is at the ...

Original Federal Boundary Stone NE 1

This plaque marks the site

of the

District of Columbia

North-East

Boundary Stone No. 1

originally placed here

1791 - 1792

Presented by

The Mary Washington Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

and

United States Department of the Interior

The ...

Rowlesburg Veterans Memorial

In honor of the men and women of the Rowlesburg area who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States and in memory of those who gave their lives for their country.

Marker is at the intersection of Buffalo ...

Birthplace of Washington’s Mother

Seven tenths mile west is Epping Forest. The land was patented by Colonel Joseph Ball, who died there in 1711. His daughter, Mary Ball, mother of George Washington, was born there in 1707/8. The house incorporates parts of the original ...