Freedom Began Here

Trail to Freedom

”The soldier assured me that I was now a free man…I never would be a slave no more.”

- John Washington, a Fredericksburg slave

”Our camps are now flooeded with negroes, with packs on their backs and bound for freedom. ...

Chapman-Taft House

97 Elm Street

Chapman-Taft House

Erected by Charles & Sarah Chapman

in 1861. Bought in 1873

by Dr. Cincinnatus A. Taft leading

Hartford physician & Mark Twain's

family doctor. Members of the

Taft family resided here

for nearly forty years.

Restored in 1979 by

Raynald B. Cantin, Esq

Park level created ...

Scion of the Charter Oak

Scion of the Charter Oak

Planted 19 October 1871 by

First Company Governor's Foot Guard

White Oak (Quercus atba L)

In the earliest days the great oak served both as a council tree and agricultural guide for Native Americans. The annual spring planting of ...

Loyal Patriots of Valley Forge

In Honor of All Loyal Patriots

Who Served under the Command of

General George Washington

In the Winter Encampment at

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

December 19, 1777 - June 19, 1778

and in Honor of

Donald G. Cronan, Founder of the Society

Marker can be reached from Pennsylvania Route ...

Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

Women’s Heritage Trail

Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, a working farm run by the Morris County Park Commission, is open to the public for self-guided tours April through October. The former owner of the farm, Caroline Foster, gave the property to the ...

Bound for Freedom

Trail to Freedom

“Fredericksburg is a captured town, the enemy took possession of the Stafford Hills … and their guns have frowned down upon us ever since… The Federal army has abolished slavery wherever it has gone.”

— Jane Beale,

a Fredericksburg Citizen

“I ...

36th Indiana Infantry

Ammen's Brigade -- Nelson's Division

(front of monument)

36th

Regiment

Infantry,

Commanded by

Col. William Grose,

10th Brigade--Col. Jacob Ammen--

4th Division--Gen. Nelson--

Army of the Ohio.

Indiana.

(back of monument)

36th Infantry,

Commanded by Col. William Grose.

This regiment arrived on the battlefield at 5.30 p.m., April 6, 1862; was ordered by Maj. ...

Longleaf Pine Planting

In the early years of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s sojourn in Meriwether County, he observed that no great effort was made to replace trees on cut-over or burnt areas not suitable for agriculture.

As a demonstration of replacement, together with erosion and ...

Washington Confederate Cemetery

The State of Maryland has provided this cemetery, and erected this monument, to perpetuate the memory of the Confederate dead, who fell in the Battles of Antietam and South Mountain.

The State of Virginia, has contributed toward the burial of her ...

First Reliable Test of Milk Quality

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

A milestone in modern dairying was the development of a simple and accurate measure of the butterfat content of milk. University of Wisconsin biochemist Stephen M. Babcock in 1890 developed the test that made him ...