Chester World War I and II and Korean Conflict Monument

Valor

Dedicated to the

Men and Women

of Chester who

served their

Country in World

War I and II and

in the Korean

Conflict

[434 names are inscribed on the monument.]

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Vermont Route 11) and School Street, on the left when traveling ...

First · Michigan · Engineers

Army · of · the · Cumberland

[Front Side]

First Michigan Engineers

Army of the Cumberland

William P. Innes Colonel Commanding

[Back Side]

A detachment of this regiment, Captain Perrin V. Fox Commanding, prepared the materials and constructed the Pontoon ...

Jalufka-Galatos House

A first-generation Texan, James Jalufka (1879-1969) was born in Lavaca County, the son of Moravian (Czech) immigrants. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, he also served as at soldier in World War I. He was a prominent South Texas cotton ...

Frances Dana Gage / Mount Airy Mansion

Frances Dana Gage

One of Ohio's earliest proponents of women's rights, Frances Dana Gage (1808-1884) was born in Marietta and married McConnelsville attorney James L. Gage in 1829. She immersed herself in the major social issues of the day - temperance, ...

Intensity of Battle

“By the time we had gotten across, the front line, broken by our fire, frightened … which sounded like forty thousand wild cats, had reached their second line, … confusion, and they, panicstricken, left their works and croded to the ...

Battle of Gaines' Mill

“The most terrific fire I ever witnessed, except at Gettysburg.” Col. Eppa Hunton, 8th Virginia Infantry

“It was one continued roar of cannons & musketry you could not hear yourself think. Such desperate fighting never graced the pages of history.” David ...

First McConnelsville Christmas Tree

This former Universalist Church, which held a strong conviction for education and the pursuit of knowledge, was built in 1852 at a cost of $3,500. In 1865, its members decorated the first Christmas tree to be placed in a church ...

Southern Pacific Train Depot

1903

The railroad reached Tucson in March of 1880. Richard Grid had a railroad spike crafted of solid silver from the Toughnut Mine. It was presented to the President of the Southern Pacific Railroad as an inducement to bring a railroad ...

Duffy’s Cut Mass Grave

Nearby is the mass grave of fifty-seven Irish immigrant workers who died in August, 1832, of cholera. They had recently arrived in the United States and were employed by a construction contractor, named Duffy, for the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. ...

Old Pocotaligo Road, March From The Sea

(front): This was a major road in the northern part of old Beaufort District for many years, appearing in Mill's Atlas of 1825. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman used this route from Savannah, Georgia, to North Carolina in February of 1865 ...