Ridge Baptist Church UDC Memorial

April 3, 1953

Erected in memory of the Confederate veterans of this locality by the Chesterfield Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The original Ridge Baptist Church building was used as a hospital during the War Between the States.

Marker ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

McLean / Logan Counties

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District

1847 - 1859

Marker is on 2500th Street west of 2300th Avenue (County Road N 500 E), on the left when traveling west.

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Gouldborough Plantation

(Later Goldberrry)

Just east of here was the seat of the Waring family, members of which served the colony and our fledgling nation in elected and appointed offices and as officers in the county militia and the Continental Line. Thomas Waring ...

Fort Lowry-Camp Byron

Located two miles N.E. on Rappahannock River at Lowry’s Point was a Confederate eight gun “water battery” constructed in 1861. Here at Dunnsville was located Camp Byron, home of Company F (Essex Light Dragoons), Ninth Cavalry, C.S.A.; the company moved ...

Richardson's Battery - Eshleman's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Artillery Reserve

Eshleman's Battalion Richardson's Battery

Two Napoleons and One 12 pounder Howitzer

July 3 The Napoleons took position before daylight north of the Peach Orchard but moved at dawn further northward and west ...

Norcom's Battery - Eshleman's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Artillery Reserve

Eshleman's Battalion Norcom's Battery

Two Napoleons and One 12 pounder Howitzer

July 3 The Napoleons advanced before daylight into position 150 yards north of Peach Orchard near the Emmitsburg road but their ...

Boyd – Parker

Torture tree and burial mound. Western limit Sullivan's expedition 1779. Seneca village town Little Beards Town.

Marker is on Cuylerville Road (Alternate U.S. 20) 0.4 miles east of Canandaigua Street, on the right when traveling east.

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The Polar Bears

Monument and Burial Site

In the summer of 1918, President Woodrow Wilson, at the urging of Britain and France, sent an infantry regiment to north Russia to fight the Bolsheviks in hopes of persuading Russia to rejoin the war against Germany. ...

Mormon Cabin

Replica

Members of the “Mormon Battalion,” returning from the war with Mexico, were enlisted by Sutter and Marshall to help construct Sutter’s Mill.

The Mormon members of the sawmill crew built a cabin near the mill during the winter of 1847. Earlier ...

Auxiliary Battery

Fort Marcy, Virginia

An extensive line of rifle trenches connected the advance works of Fort Ethan Allen and Fort Marcy and extended to the west bank of the Potomac River. Auxiliary batteries for the field guns, strategically placed, provided additional strength ...