Defenders of the Union

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch

To the Defenders of the Union, 1861-1865

Marker is at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, in the median on Flatbush Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Baptist Church, Georgetown

2624 Dumbarton Street, NW

The first Baptist church established in Georgetown was funded in 1862 by the Reverend Sandy Alexander (1818-1902), a former slave who led the church until 1889. Among the founding members was Collins Williams, a preacher from Fredericksburg, ...

Ellsworth, the Cowtown and Fort

When the Union Pacific built through here in 1867 this was buffalo country. As the engines chugged on west, the Hays newspaper reported: "Passengers on the cars between here and Ellsworth have almost daily fine sport shooting at buffalo, immense ...

Truckee’s Old Stone Garage and Site of Town’s First Dwelling

In 1863, Joseph Gray built Truckee’s first structure on this site for use as the Dutch Flat–Donner Lake Wagon Road’s Toll Station. The old log structure was moved in 1907 to the Englehart property on Church Street, one block east ...

Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Underground Railroad Heritage Trail

The congregation of Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims hired Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) as their first minister, approving of his abolitionist sentiments. Beecher protested the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850, exhorting his congregation to place the requirements ...

Maryland Heights - Mountain Fortress of Harpers Ferry

You are standing on the border between North and South during the Civil War. As the highest ridge surrounding Harpers Ferry, Maryland Heights played a prominent role in the strategic operations of both the Union and Confederacy.

Southern forces under ...

Difficult Times

Waynesboro during the Civil War

Wayne County’s residents were divided in sentiment when the Civil War began. Although they had voted more than two to one to remain in the Union, many people who lived in the northern portion, including ...

Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget

In honor and grateful remembrance of our French Allies in the Revolution, whose army, under the command of General Count de Rochambeau, marched past this spot enroute from Newport and Providence, R.I., to join General Washington on the ...

Francis Augustine Deleglise

1835 – 1894

Born in Canton Valais, Switzerland.

Emigrated to America in 1848.

Enlisted in Co. E. 6th Wis. Vol. Inf. 1861.

Served in the Iron Brigade

under Gen. Bragg. Wounded at Antietam

and taken prisoner at Gettysburg.

Honorably discharged in 1864.

Located the site of Antigo

in the ...

Lift Lock 33

Here, the forces of nature created a natural corridor for commerce. The Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers carved a notch in the mountains, providing passage west. Communities grew up on both sides of the river and later a turnpike, railroad, and ...