Bride Brooke

Bride Brooke

A.D. 1664 – 1647

"It fell out the first winter of our settling there that Jonathan Rudd being to be maried at Saybrooke there falling out at yt tyme a great snow the magistrate intended to goe downe thither was ...

Phippsburg Veterans and Mariners Memorial

"All gave some - some gave all"

In Memory of Those Who Served

Revolutionary War

April 19, 1775 to September 3, 1783

Civil War

April 12, 1861 to May 26, 1865

Spanish American War

April 25, 1898 to August 12, 1898

Phippsburg Honor Roll

Let it be known that

they ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Metamora, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

Marker is on East Partridge Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Stockade Branch

This stream, a branch of Sweetwater Creek, was the prison's water supply. Today's neatly dredged channel is misleading. When the prison was built, the stockade posts slowed the current, turning the stream banks into acres of stagnant swamp.

The prisoners' latrines ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Tazewell / Woodford Counties

Abraham Lincoln

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

1847 - 1859

Marker is at the intersection of North County Highway 3 and County Line Road, on the left when traveling north on North ...

John Leeds Barroll

Publisher Accused of Treason and Exiled

John Leeds Barroll first walked these courthouse grounds, as a prominent Kent County lawyer before becoming a newspaper publisher. He was admitted to the bar in 1852 and served as the county State’s Attorney, 1854–1856, ...

Federal Troops Burn Guntersville During Civil War

January 15, 1865 was perhaps the darkest day in the history of Guntersville. At noon, Forty Federal marines from the gunboat U.S.S. General Grant were sent to burn the town. After the mission was completed, only seven buildings remained standing ...

William Beck Nicholson

“Swish”

Philadelphia A.L., 1936

Chicago N.L., 1939–1948

Philadelphia N.L., 1948–1953

Born Chestertown, Kent County, Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1914. Graduate of Washington College 1936. Feared and respected outfielder with fine arm who played the national game of baseball with great determination. Led National League ...

Baltimore Regional Trail

A House Divided

War on the Chesapeake Bay. During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland’s residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

William Bartram crossed the Chattahoochee (Chata Uche) River January 5, 1778 to Chehaw and Usseta now Columbus.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway and Fourth Street, in the median on Broadway.

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