Two Days of Battle at Jonesboro

In this vicinity were fought the engagements that ended the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Confederate forces under Gen. Hardee, endeavoring to defend the remaining R.R. to Atlanta, against outnumbering Federal troops, Aug. 31 & Sept. 1 were forced to withdraw ...

Monocacy Battlefield

has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1973

National Parks Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from Urbana Pike (State Highway 355), on the right when traveling north. ...

Fork Union Academy

First classes of Fork Union Academy were held here October 15, 1898 in the residence of Susie Payne Cooper. Established as a co-educational English and classical school, it became Fork Union Military Academy for boys in 1903. Organized by 10 ...

Father Caspar Rehrl / St. John the Baptist Parish

Father Caspar Rehrl

A priest, missionary, teacher, founder of churches and schools, and organizer of parishes, Father Rehrl was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1809. He became a mission­ary to North America, arriving in the new diocese of Milwaukee in the ...

Clustered Spires of Frederick

John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized Barbara Fritchie and the town of Frederick in his poem about the elderly Frederick resident who supposedly displayed the Union flag as Southern soldiers marched by on September 10, 1862.

On July 9, 1864, Confederate General Jubal ...

1862 Post Office

On June 6, 1862 Memphis surrendered to Federal gunboats. The only resistance by citizens occurred here as a shot was fired at the soldiers hoisting the U.S. flag over the post office.

Marker is at the intersection of Adams Street and ...

Forrest's Early Home

In a house which stood here in antebellum days lived Nathan Bedford Forrest. Born in middle Tennessee, 1821, he spent his early life on a Mississippi plantation.

Following marriage in 1845, he came to Memphis, where his business enterprises made ...

History of the Monocacy River Valley

The earliest inhabitants of the Monocacy River Valley lived here about 12,000 years ago. These Native Americans lived in territorial, semi-nomadic groups dependent upon hunting, fishing, and food gathering.

When European settlers first came to Maryland, they encountered Native Americans who ...

Site of David Park’s Studio

Berkeley History

In the 1940s painter David Park (1911-1960) had a studio in a brick building that once occupied this site. Despite a well-received exhibition of his abstract expressionist works at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1948, Park rejected ...

Worthington-McKinney Ford

11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. July 9, 1864

Confederate troops succeeded in finding their way across the Monocacy River at the foot of this hill. Brig. Gen. John McCausland's 350 cavalrymen came up over the hill and assembled on the front yard of ...