Battle of Brushy Creek

A skirmish between Comanche raiders and a local militia near here in mid-winter (1839) led to the last major battle between anglo settlers and indians in Williamson County. The Comanche retaliated on February 18, 1839, by attacking several area homes, ...

Encounter At Halfway Swamp / Site Of Original St. Mark's Church

[Front]:

On Dec. 12, 1780, an old tradition says, British Major Robert McLeroth was surprised near here by Francis Marion, but avoided all-out battle by slipping away after pretending to agree to a staged combat, twenty on each side. Credence ...

First U.S. Cavalry

Reserve Brigade - First Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

Reserve Brigade First Division

First U.S. Cavalry

Captain Robert S. C. Lord commanding

Detachment at Headquarters Army of the Potomac

July 3 Moved with the Brigade at 12 m under Brig. General W. ...

Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance

Spanning Exchange Avenue, this gateway to the Fort Worth Stock Yards was completed in 1910. Constructed by the Topeka Bridge & Land Co. for the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co., it was a significant feat of concrete work for that ...

Village of Neshonoc

The nearby limestone grist mill and dam are the remnants of what once was a mid-19th century village located at this site. Vermont millwright and speculator Monroe Palmer purchased fifteen acres of land on the La Crosse River and constructed ...

Thomas B. Saunders Family

A native of North Carolina, Thomas Bailey Saunders (1816-1902) migrated to Texas in 1850 and started a cattle ranch near Gonzales. After the Civil War he completed cattle drives to markets in New Orleans and Kansas before settling in Bexar ...

Country of the Pawnee

Long before white men settled Kansas this region was the home of Pawnee Indians. French traders in the late 1700's named those along this river the Republican Pawnee in the mistaken belief that their form of government was a republic. ...

Gascoigne Bluff

Throughout the ages Gascoigne Bluff has been the gateway to St. Simons Island. An Indian village was located here. Capt. James Gascoigne of HM Sloop-of-was, HAWK, which convoyed the Frederica settlers on their voyage across the Atlantic in 1736, established ...

Tenth Michigan Infantry

Morgan's Brigade, Davis' Division,

[Front Side]

Tenth Michigan Infantry

Morgan's Brigade, Davis' Division,

Palmer's Corps.

[Back Side]

Michigan

To her Tenth Regiment of Infantry

Commanded

By Lieut. Colonel Christopher J. Dickerson,

Morgan's Brigade, Davis' Division, Palmer's Corps.

The regiment crossed ...

Site of Old Block House

Site of

Old Block House

Used As A

Fort And Indian Trading Post

Built About 1697

By Omey Ackerson

First Business Building

In The

Pascack Valley

Marker Placed By

Wampum Mill Chapter D.A.R.

1950

Marker is at the intersection of Pascack Road and Mill Lane, on the right ...