The Battle of Payne’s Farm

The Worm Fence

“We gained a slight rise in the land behind an old worm fence. The enemy had fallen back under cover of a piece of woods well in our front. Soon they came out in splendid battle array, with ...

Bristol Vietnam Conflict Monument

[ front ]

In Memory Of

Those Who Made The

Supreme Sacrifice

[ back ]

Made The Supreme Sacrifice

Pelletier, Lawrence Joseph • Wade, Melvin A. • Levesque, Roland Philip • Thibeault, Gilbert • Jacob, Robert Michael • Nestico, Philip Frank • Ryder, Aldo Eugene • ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

Baptism of Fire

“[It was] … as warm a contest as this regiment was ever engaged in. … It seemed as if the enemy was throwing minie-balls upon us by the bucket-full, when the battle got fairly under way.” — Member ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

Stalemate at the Crossroads

“Gen. [Edward] Johnson … cheered us on to the fight with ‘Hurrah for North Carolina, go it North Carolina—give it to them boys!’ … The Federals were as thick as black birds in our front.” — Capt. ...

Huffman Prairie Flying Field

Huffman Prairie Flying Field, a unit of the Dayton Heritage National Historic Park, is the site where Wilbur and Orville Wright flew and perfected the world's first practical airplane, the 1905 Wright Flyer III, after their first flights in Kitty ...

Abraham Lincoln & Family Moved to Illinois

In the late winter of 1830 a few weeks after his 21st birthday Abraham Lincoln passed this way with his father's family entering the State of Illinois for the first time.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Illinois ...

Site of a Twin Blockhouse

Built about 1828 - used as a place of defense against the Indians and known as Moore's Fort in honor of its builder and owner, John Henry Moore, 1800-1880, noted Indian fighter and commander of the Texans at the Battle ...

Burdell Frame House

This two-story, clapboard structure, known as the Burdell Frame House, was built in 1874 for Mary Burdell’s cousin, Mary Joynsen.

Originally a rectangle building, it has been modified with a projecting, two story addition on the end facing the parking lot, ...

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

Unexpected Encounter

“There was a sudden commotion in the train ahead and several of the ambulances turned and came back in confusion. General [George H.] Steuart promptly ordered them back to their places, faced the brigade into line to the left ...

Dedicated to the Memory of Our Fallen Comrades

Dedicated to the Memory

Of Our Fallen Comrades

And Presented to the City of Bristol By

Harold F. Emmett Post No. 994

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Of The United States.

July 17, 1926

Marker is at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard and Mellen Street, on ...