From Federal City to State Capital

Following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the newly independent United States were faced with establishing a national capital. Up to this point the Continental Congress had met in several places, most often in Philadelphia and New York City. Congress ...

Fort Franklin

Site just west of here. Built in 1787 by U.S. troops under Captain Heart. First American fort in the region and base for protecting northwestern Pennsylvania's early settlements.

Marker is at the intersection of 13th Street (U.S. 322) and Franklin Avenue, ...

Birthplace of Naval Aviation

On 14 Nov. 1910, off Old Point Comfort across the harbor from here, the U.S. Navy demonstrated that airplanes could be launched from ships. Flying a Curtiss biplane, Eugene Ely took off from a wooden ramp constructed atop the deck ...

The Battles of Trenton, Turning Point of the Revolution

By December of 1776, the Continental Army had withdrawn in disarray from New York, across Central New Jersey and the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. The British were in complacent pursuit, confident that it was only a matter of weeks or ...

Slavery – An “Odious and Disgraceful” Practice

From the onset of European settlement in North America slavery was a recognized institution and integral to the colonial economy. Although Quakers discouraged the practice, settlers of other religious faiths living in the Delaware Valley maintained and relied heavily on ...

The Return of Kirtland's Warbler

The Kirtland's Warbler was first identified in 1851 from a specimen collected on Dr. Jared Kirtland's Ohio farm. The birds originally depended on fire-created young jack pine forests for summer nesting. Such forests in northern Michigan became their prime global ...

7th Illinois Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

7th Illinois Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brigade,

W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division.

This regiment was engaged here at about 10 A.M. April 7, 1862.

Marker is on Cavalry Road ¾ mile west of Hamburg-Savannah Road, on the right ...

7th Illinois Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

7th Illinois Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment occupied this position Sunday night April 6, 1862. It was in Jones Field on Monday.

Marker is on Pittsburg Landing Road, on the ...

Forever Honored Forever Mourned

Forever Honored

Forever Mourned

To The Men And Women Who

Served In The Armed Forces

Marker is on South End Road near Dale Drive, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

7th Illinois Infantry

Sweeny's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

7th Illinois Infantry,

Sweeny's (3d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here at 4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862 in support of McAllister's battery. It then retired to siege guns.

Marker is at ...