Winfield S. Hancock

Outstanding Civil War general and hero of the Battle of Gettysburg, was born here Feb. 14, 1824. After 1828 he lived in Norristown, where he is buried.

Marker is on Bethlehem Pike (Pennsylvania Route 309) 0.2 miles south of Dekalb Pike ...

Site of Meinrad Rumely's Blacksmith Shop

[ Logo of “Allis Chalmers - Milwaukee” at top with the following text below: ]

This marks the site of Meinard Rumely’s Blacksmith Shop where in 1853 he built his first threshing machine.

In the factory later erected here were produced pioneering ...

Burning of Winton

"Fire... accompanied the sword"

After Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside captured Roanoke Island in February 1862, he decided to "sweep Albemarle Sound clean of [Confederate] defenses," establish inland bases of operation, and encourage eastern North Carolina Unionists. Winton, the Hertford County ...

Gwynns Falls Valley

From Work to Play

As the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike twisted and turned westward, it passed one of the centers of early city industry. A three mile long millrace on the Gwynns Falls provided power for over twenty mills that ...

Trading Ford

General Nathanael Greene in his masterly retreat from the British army under Lord Cornwallis, crossed the Yadkin at Trading Ford, one-half mile southeast of this spot, February 2-3, 1781. A sudden rise in the river prevented the passage of the ...

Barry Farm - Hillsdale

Bounded by St. Elizabeths Hospital, Alabama Avenue and Morris Road, SE, and the Anacostia River

In 1867 the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau) purchased 375 acres from white farmers David and Julia Barry to resettle ...

Store House, Shed and Lodging For Strangers 1754

(reconstructed)

On February 8, 1754, the Brothers began construction on a "cabin for strangers"; they completed it the following day. It measured 8' by 8', had a fireplace and enough room for two sick guests. In July 1754, another pen, measuring ...

Otho French Strahl

(Front):

Confederate Brigadier General

War Between the States, 1861-1865

Born: 1832, Homer Township,

Reached maturity in Malta Township, Morgan County

K.I.A. November 30, 1864

Battle of Franklin, Tennessee

(Rear):

Placed by:

The help of generous donors to

Generals Albert Jenkins and Otho Strahl Camp,

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Parkersburg, West Virginia

1991

Deo Vindice

Marker ...

Fourth Army Corps.

Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger.

No. 11...........................................................U.

Fourth Army Corps.

Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger.

Nov. 25th, 1863.

1st Division-Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft.

2d Division-Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan

3d Division-Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Wood.

This corps was organized at Chattanooga after the battle of Chickamauga, by consolidating the Twentieth ...

Paul Bunyan of Bangor, Maine

Currently, the marker reads:

This statue, reputed to be the largest of Paul Bunyon in the world, stands facing the Penobscot River. The legendary giant woodsman is a symbol of the great era in the late 1800's when Bangor, Maine ...