Fort Mercer at Red Bank / Fort Mercer is Alerted

[Fort Mercer at Red Bank Side]:

Late in September 1777, Philadelphia was captured by British General William Howe, with a serious disadvantage. Extensive American river defenses blocked the shipping of food and supplies to the British army and citizens of Philadelphia. ...

Presbyterian Congregation of Blooming Grove

1758 Land Deeded

to Presbyterian Congregation of Blooming Grove. The original building was torn down in 1823.

Materials sold and the present

church built.

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 94 and Old Dominion Road on State Route 94. ...

T.S.C. Lowe's Observation Flight

On June 18, 1861, T.S.C. Lowe made a tethered observation flight with his gas-filled balloon Enterprise from a spot on the National Mall in front of where the National Air and Space Museum now stands. During this flight, he sent ...

Battle of the Rocks Monument

On this historic ground

the American Patriots

bravely sustained the cause of

Liberty

against the British Invaders

July 12, 1779

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Erected by the D.A.R. of Norwalk

1894.

Marker is at the intersection of France Street and Adams Avenue, on the left when traveling north on France Street.

Courtesy ...

Jamestown Branch Jail

California’s gold country was in the midst of a second gold rush when the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors approved construction of a Jamestown Branch Jail. It was designed by Sonora architect C.W. Ayers and built by A.S. Thomas for ...

Burning of Norwalk

From the summit

of this hill

Maj. Gen. William Tryon

witnessed

the Burning of Norwalk

by the British troops under his command

during the engagement of

July 11 & 12, 1779.

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Erected by Norwalk Chapter

Daughters of the American

Revolution

1904

Marker is on East Avenue, on the right when traveling north. ...

Birthplace of Naval Aviation

On Nov. 14, 1910, man proved that planes could fly from ships when a Curtiss Bi-Plan piloted by E. B. Ely took off from the deck of the cruiser U.S.S. Birhingham, at anchor off Old Point Comfort, flew two miles ...

Battle of Red Bank

This monument was erected on the 22 Oct 1829 to transmit positively a grateful remembrance of the patriotism & gallantry of Lieuit Colonel Christopher Greene who with 400 men defeated the Hessian army of 2000 troops then in the British ...

Cherokee County WW I Rememberence

In Memory of the Boys

of Cherokee County who lost their lives

in the World War, 1917 - 1918

Arthur Burgess • Grier Ellis • Richard Callman • Jay Bee Godfrey •

Albert Grant • Broadus Hames • John G. Hamrick ...

Bibb's Crossroads

First Shots

The Battle of Trevilian Station

A 9,300-man Union cavalry force under Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, on a raid to destroy parts of the Virginia Central Railroad, camped a few miles east on June 10, 1864. The next morning, Gen. Wesley ...