Camp of 1st and 2nd Battalions, 11th Illinois Cavalry

Prentiss' Division

U. S.

Camp of

1st and 2d Battalions,

11th Illinois Cavalry

Prentiss' (6th) Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road 0.3 miles east of Eastern Corinth Road, on the right when traveling east.

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If it's Summer, Bring a Sweater

Daly City summers are virtually rain-free, but don't expect sunny skies.

Daly City is usually blanketed with heavy fog and swept by brisk sea breezes from mid-May to mid-September. But while Daly City shivers, the summer fog and sea breezes ...

Venable's Tenn. Infantry

Stewart's Brigade -- Clark's Division -- Polk's Corps

C. S.

Army of the Mississippi.

Venable's (5th) Tennessee Infantry,

Stewart's (2d) Brig., Clark's (1st) Div.,

Polk's Corps.

This regiment was engaged here Monday April 7, 1862 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road 0.4 ...

Fairview

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Here at Thornton Beach, the ground is not as solid as it seems. The ground itself is made up of a semi-consolidate sedimentary rock from here to Mussel Rock. It doesn't hold together well, which makes the coastline very unstable.

17th Kentucky Infantry

Lauman's Brigade -- Hurlbut's Division

U. S.

17th Kentucky Infantry,

Lauman's (3d) Brig., Hurlbut's (4th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 6, 1862. It formed first facing west and in a short time changed ...

Life at the Light

There have been words written to the effect that the lighthouse keepers and their families had a very lonely life; however, we did not have this experience. In fact, just the opposite would be more apt to apply. The lighthouse ...

The First Public Park in Kansas

North Esplanade Park and Historic District

North Esplanade Historic District

In the plat of the Town of Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, filed December 20, 1854, in the Surveyor General's Office at Fort Leavenworth, the proprietors of the town donated to the public "the ...

Blue Mountain Forts

In 1763-64, from a line of six loghouse stations to the north, settlers were defended by the Paxton Rangers – volunteers paid by Pennsylvania’s Provincial government. Fort Hunter was on the Susquehanna just north of Blue Mountain, and the other ...

First Settler

"Green Meadows," to the west, was the home of Adam Miller (1703-1783), one of the first Europeans to settle in the valley. The property remained in the Miller (originally Mueller) family from the 1740s through 1936.

Marker is on Stuart Avenue ...