Hebgen Lake and Quake Lake

By 1898 a 10-foot wide road was built through the Gallatin Canyon to Taylors Fork and the park line. In 1911 a crude, narrow wagon road went to "Yellowstone" (West Yellowstone), 90 miles from the county seat at Bozeman. In ...

Site of British Encampment

August 13,1777

Col. Baum's forces camped here

Marker is on U.S. 22 0.2 miles from North Old State Road, on the left when traveling north.

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Home Where Lt .Colonel Baum Died

A few feet east of this marker stood the house, removed about 1870, in which Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum died. Commander of the enemy forces, he was mortally wounded in the battle of Bennington and died two days later, August ...

Early Toll Road (Berlin, NY)

Elm Street and Green Hollow Road were part of the Eastern Turnpike enacted 1799 to improve existing road from Albany to Mass. line and thence to Boston.

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 38 and U.S. 22, on ...

Home of Big Thunder

Dr. Smith Boughton, leader of 1844-45 anti rent war, liver here: 1838-1888

Marker is on New York Route 43 just from Alps Mountain Rd, on the right when traveling east.

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Battle of Bennington Second Engagement

August 16th 1777

Battle Of Bennington

Second engagement

At this point occurred the defeat of Colonel Breyman, who commanded a force of 600 men sent by General Burgoyne to reinforce Colonel Baum. Seth Warner and his regiment of Vermont rangers ...

Battle of Bennington First Engagement

General John Stark with New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts militia defeated and captured an expeditionary force sent by General Burgoyne and commanded by Colonel Baum.

This was one of the first decisive victories in the War of the Revolution.

Marker ...

Corput's Georgia Battery

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Corput's Georgia Battery

Four 12 Pounder Napoleons.

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.

Stevenson's Division. - Breckinridge's Corps.

Nov.24, 1863, 2 P.M.

Capt. Max Van Den Corput, Commanding.

1st Lieut. M.S. McWhorter.

2nd Lieut. W.S, Hoge.

2nd Lieut. J.E. Stilwell.

2nd Lieut. W.A. Russell.

About 1 A.M. ...

The Bastion That Never Was

When army engineers originally designed the second Fort Smith in 1838, they planned for it to withstand attack. A key feature in achieving this goal was a stone wall about twelve feet high and from two to three feet thick. ...

The Metropolitan Branch and Takoma Park

Geology

This section of the trail is on the border of two physiographic provinces, the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont Region, display traces of two different times on Earth.

The Coastal Plain stretches south and east from where you are standing ...