Parsons / Corrick's Ford

(South Side):

John Crouch, pioneer settler, established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766, but the town was not incorporated until 1893. Here Shavers Fork and Blackwater unite to form the Cheat River. Hu Maxwell, the historian, lived near.

(North Side):

After the battles of ...

Rear of the Camp

You are standing at the rear of the camp where the wagons were parked. The steeple of the Baptist Church marks the approximate location of Picket Post #3, which guarded the right flank.

Lieutenant Samuel Brady was with Picket #3: ...

Federal Land Office

Federal Land Office. This log building was constructed in 1801 by David Hoge on the west side of Third Street. It served as his home and was the first Federal land office in that part of the Northwest Territory known ...

Village of Cassville

Cassville was named for Lewis B. Cass, governor of the Michigan Territory. The earliest mention of the present site was by Henry Schoolcraft in 1820. The settlement began in 1827 when a lead-smelting furnace and a government warehouse were erected ...

Fort Delaware

Model of the circa 1755

Cushetunk settlement

located near Milanville Pa.

Opened in 1957. Designed by

James W. Burnank.

Marker is on New York Route 97, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Brigade

First Division - Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps First Division

First Brigade

Col. Archibald L. McDougall

5th. 20th. Connecticut, 3d. Maryland

123d. 145th. New York, 46th. Penna. Infantry

July 1 Marched from Littlestown and when within two miles of Gettysburg advanced on Wolf Hill ...

Telfair County

Telfair County was created by Act of Dec. 10, 1807 from Wilkinson County. Originally, it contained parts of Coffee and Dodge Counties. It was named for Gov. Edward Telfair (1735- 1807). Born in Scotland, he settled in Savannah in 1766, ...

Battle of Averasboro

Union Route to Bentonville

(Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ...

Fort Steuben

In 1787, the construction of Fort Steuben was completed by Captain John Francis Hamtramck and soldiers of the 1st American Regiment, who were sent to the frontier by the United States government to remove illegal squatters and protect government surveyors ...

Folsom Pony Express Terminus

Gold Rush and Railroad town Folsom became the Western Terminus of the Central Overland Pony Express on July 1, 1860. The express mail had been run by pony to and from Sacramento. Beginning on July 1, 1860, the

Sacramento Valley ...