The History of Memorial Boulevard

The History of

Memorial Boulevard

In 1919, after the "Great War", Bristol was growing and needed a new high school. Albert F. Rockwell took the initiative and made a remarkable offer to the city. He would give 12 acres in Dunbar Meadows ...

Old Presbyterian Burial Ground

Hackettstown, New Jersey

Established 1763

Burial place for earlier settlers

Revolutionary War patriots

and their families

Dedicated 1999

Hackettstown Historical Society

Marker by Cochran Funeral Home

Marker is on Main Street (New Jersey Route 46), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Grand Trunk Western, Wood Caboose No. 77915

This caboose of the Grand Trunk of Canada was of the 1894 design and was transferred to the Grand Trunk Western.

Early car department records indicate that it was rebuilt in 1925.

This all-wood caboose was used by the conductor ...

Ben Lomond

Pringle House Hospital

On July 21, 1861, as elements of the Stonewall Brigade marched to the Manassas battlefield on the road behind you, officers converted the Pringle house (also called Ben Lomond) into a temporary field hospital. Soon wounded Confederates flooded ...

Corrick's Ford Battle

1861 - 1865

Corrick's Ford

Battle

engagement between

Federal troops under

Gen. T.A. Morris

and

Confederate troops under

Gen. R.S. Garnett,

one mile south,

July 13, 1861.

Garnett, mortally wounded

in this action, was the first

general to fall during the war.

Marker is at the intersection of 1st Street (U.S. 219) and Walnut ...

Delavan’s Historic Brick Street

Dusty and rutted in dry spells, muddy and miserable in wet, Delavan’s main street, Walworth Avenue, remained unpaved from the 1830’s until the second decade of the 20th century. In 1911, Delavan’s City Council voted to pave the three block ...

The Battle of Pocotaligo

(Front Side): The Battle of Pocotaligo, the largest action of a three-day expedition intended to disrupt the Charleston & Savannah Railroad, took place nearby on October 22, 1862. With 2000 Confederates under Col. W.S. Walker defending the area between Charleston ...

Trevilian Station Battle

In June 1864, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan led a Union cavalry raid against the Virginia Central Railroad here, which Maj. Gen. Wade Hampton and Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee defended during a two-day battle. On 11 June, the first day, ...

Lt. and Mrs. Robert Wilson

Site of the home of

Lt. and Mrs. Robert Wilson

Gen. and Mrs. George Washington

were entertained here in November 1780

and at other times while the armies

were encamped at Morristown

Site marked in 1964 by

Gen. William Maxwell Chapter, D.A.R.

Peggy Warne Chapter, D.A.R.

Jockey Hollow Chapter, ...

Battle of James City

Opening Battle of the Bristoe Station Campaign

On October 10, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, anticipating an offensive that became known as the Bristoe Station Campaign, sent a division of Confederate horsemen led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart north from Madison ...