Sickles' Excelsior Brigade

E Pluribus Unum

(Top Banner Plaque):2nd. Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps.

Col. W.R. Brewster, Commanding.

Position, July 2, 1863, 3 to 6 p.m.

July 3rd, supported left centre.(Unit Plaques at base)

70th New York Infantry

(1st Excelsior)On the afternoon of the 2nd of July 1863, the ...

Lebsch Confectionery

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad arrived in 1882, starting a stampede of commercial enterprise. The development of Williams as a community is indicated in part, by this ice cream and confectionery store built by Albert Lebsch in 1914. For a ...

Fort Robinson

In March, 1874, the U.S. Government authorized the establishment of a military camp at the Red Cloud Indian Agency on the White River. Home of some 13,000 Indians, many of whom were hostile, the Agency was one of the most ...

Clark's Battery

Battery B 1st New Jersey Light Artillery

(Front):Clark's Battery

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Battery B

1st New Jersey

Light Artillery

3d Corps

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Fought here from

2 Until 7 O'Clock

on July 2, 1863.

Firing 1300 rounds

of ammunition

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Losses, killed 1,

wounded 16, missing 3.

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Erected by the State

of New Jersey 1888.

(Back):Mustered in

Sept. 3, 1861,

mustered out

June 16, ...

Rittenhouse Haberdashery

In 1901, a 60-mile long railroad spur line to the Grand Canyon secured Williams the title "Gateway to the Grand Canyon." Train tickets at that time cost $3.95 serving world travelers and locals alike, this pre-1910 structure was home to ...

The James Rumsey Bridge / The Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg

(West Facing Side):The James Rumsey Bridge

Named in honor of the inventor James Rumsey, who made successful public demonstrations of his steamboat on the Potomac River on December 3 and 11, 1787. Opened and dedicated on July 15, 1939..

(East Facing Side):The ...

Battle of Wauhatchie

2½ mi. Here 3 brigades of hood's Division, Confederate Army of Tennessee under Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins, made a night attack against Geary's Division of the XII Corps, guarding the recently opened "Cracker Line" to Bridgeport, Ala. The attack was ...

Brown's Ferry

About 3.3 miles north, near the route of the Great War and Trading Path, John Brown, a Cherokee half-breed, established a ferry and tavern in 1800. It was much used by drovers going to and from markets. Legends say that ...

Riverton Bridge

These stone obelisks are all that’s left of the original four that once stood on the corners of the stone arch bridge spanning the American River from 1900 to 1930.

This monument erected by Caltrans District 3 History Committee and the ...

Babbitt-Polson Building

The wood framed 1894 Polson Bros. General Store burned down in the 1901 fire and was replaced by this brick building in 1907. The Babbitt and Polson families were pioneer merchants in the area. In 1930 the building was stuccoed ...