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 ...

Hans Wagner Cabin 1752

(reconstructed)

Hans Wagner, a hunter, trapper and miller, and his teenage son built this cabin in 1752, but left for new land on the Yadkin River, when the Moravians purchased the Wachovia Tract. On November 17, 1753, the first 15 Brothers ...

Presbyterian Cemetery

[Front]:

This cemetery, the oldest in Union, was established ca. 1817 and sometimes called the "village cemetery." In 1818 a Presbyterian "union" church used by other denominations as well moved here from a 1783 site about 2 mi. E. Alexander Macbeth ...

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 ...

This Boulder

This boulder

from the

Battlefield of Gettysburg

presented to

Phil H. Sheridan

Post No 328 G.A.R.

by

Thomas Henry Simpson 1923

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Main Street and 5th Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John H. B. Latrobe House

On an evening in October, 1833, three of Baltimore's most discerning gentlemen were gathered around a table in the back parlor of this house. Fortified with “some old wine and some good cigars,” John Pendleton Kennedy, James H. Miller and ...

Bake Oven 1753

(reconstructed)

The Brothers, tired of eating unleavened "journey cakes" (johnnycakes), began building an oven to bake bread almost immediately upon arrival. Although once found throughout the thirteen colonies, no original oven currently exists; however, there is a photograph taken in the ...

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 ...

Joseph Bailey / Jeremiah Rusk

Civil War 1861 - 1865

(Front):

Joseph Bailey

U.S. Major General

Born: 1825, Penn Township, Morgan County

Awarded the “Thanks of Congress” citation

Jeremiah Rusk

U.S. Brigadier General

Born: 1830, Deerfield Township, Morgan County

W.I.A. 1865

U.S. Sec. of Agri. Governor, Wisconsin

(Rear):

Placed by:

The help of generous donors

to Camp Governor William ...