Bristol

VA - TENN

Landmark Bridge

Between Two States

Erected 1910

Placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior

September 8,1988

Marker in memory of Mattie and Jim Owens

Bristol Historical Association

Marker ...

Barksdale's Brigade

McLaws's Division - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps McLaws's Division

Barksdale's Brigade

13th. 17th. 18th. 21st. Mississippi Infantry

July 2 Arrived about 3 p.m. and formed in line. Advanced at 5 o'clock and took part in the assault on the Peach Orchard ...

Bear Tavern Road

"All our hopes were blasted by

that unhappy affair at Trenton"

— Lord George Germain, British Colonel Secretary

Bear Tavern Road

Historic route of

Continental troops to Trenton where

Washington achieved his famous victory

over Rahl's Hessian Brigade of the

British Army, December 26, 1776

Known in colonial times ...

Berkeley Springs / James Rumsey

Berkeley Springs

Washington first came here, 1748. Fairfax gave the springs to the public. Established as town, 1776. Virginia treated her sick soldiers here. Gen. Washington, Gen Buchanan, Gen. Gates, Charles Carroll and others bought lots 1777.

James Rumsey

Here, 1782-1785, lived James ...

Birthplace of Bristol

The town of Bristol was planned and laid out by Joseph Rhea Anderson in 1852. Development began on this site in 1853 with the erection of Anderson's combined home and business. The building served as the community's first store, post ...

Willett S. Main Building

Stephen V. Shipman, Architect

Believed to be the oldest commercial building facing Capitol Square, this striking edifice is designed in the Italianate Style by Madison master architect Stephen Shipman. The building was constructed of large sandstone ashlar blocks, and features hooded ...

Battery G, 1st N.Y. Light Artillery

(Front):Battery G.

(Ames')

1st N.Y. Light Artillery

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Engaged here with 3d Corps

3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. July 2, 1863.

July 3d, on Cemetery Ridge

with 1st Div. 2d Corps.

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Casualties, 7 wounded.

(Back):Mustered in Sept. 22, 1861.

Principal Engagements.

Fair Oaks - Peach Orchard

Savage's Station - White Oak Swamp

Malvern ...

The Incidental Cause of the Star-Spangled Banner (1814)

Following the Battle of Bladensburg and the sacking and burning of Washington, D.C., during the war of 1812, British troops reentered the town of Upper Marlboro on August 26, 1814. It was at this point that some stragglers were arrested ...

David Zeisberger

Noted Moravian missionary camped near here Oct. 8, 1767, en route from Bethlehem to found missions among the Delaware Indians to the West. He was the first white man to pass through the primeval forests of this region.

Marker is on ...

Bernard R. "Bunny" Berigan

(1908–1942)

This was the hometown of famed jazz trumpeter and band leader, Bunny Berigan. As a child he played in the Fox Lake Juvenile Band directed by his grandfather, John C. Schlitzberg.

In his early teens, he began his professional career ...