Geary’s Refused Line

July 20, 1864. Geary’s 20th A.C. div. [US] was massed on this ridge (Candy’s, Ireland’s & Jones’ brigades) in parallel lines on old Collier Rd., its front 400 yds. Eastward. A reconnoissance in force, there was no deployment & being ...

Hospitals in Frederick

Caring for the Wounded

In this building, soldiers who died in one of the many area hospitals following the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Moncacy were embalmed and prepared for interment at nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery or for shipment ...

Frederick

A Town becomes a City

Frederick Town was founded in 1745 when Daniel Dulany the Elder carved out an eastern portion of his 7,000 acre parcel patented as "Tasker's Chance." The town was then laid out in an orderly grid with ...

Here the Battle of Oriskany Was Fought

[Tablet on South Side of Monument]

Here the Battle of Oriskany was fought

On the sixth day of August, A.D. 1777

Here British invasion was checked and thwarted

Here General Nicholas Herkimer, intrepid leader

Of the American forces tho' mortally wounded

Kept command of the fight, ...

Hotel Zinzendorf

Opening in May 1892, the Hotel Zinzendorf was a resort hotel developed by the West End Hotel and Land Company. The hotel was a venture by local business leaders to add tourism to a booming industrial, and largely tobacco-based, economy. ...

Site of Gjerpen Evangelical Lutheran Church

Site

Gjerpen Evangelical

Lutheran Church

Founded 1850

Pastors

H. A. Stub 1850 - 1852

J. A. Otteson 1852 - 1860

L. M. Biorn 1862 - 1872

A. O. Alfsen 1872 - 1917

A. O. White 1917 - 1930

E. A. Fretheim 1931 - 1940

Martin Trygstad 1940 - 1945

Norman Berntson 1946 ...

The Great Hinckley Fire

This Monument is erected by The State of Minnesota under an Act of the Legislature Approved April 7th, A. D. 1899 To the Memory of Four Hundred and Eighteen Men Women and Children who perished in the Great Hinckley Forest ...

Confederate Chaplains

Rev. Edward Hudson – Rev. John Hudson

Brothers, teachers, Presbyterian ministers. Came to Texas from Arkansas, 1856. Worked and lived in this county. Both are buried in Round Rock Cemetery.

In the Civil War, Rev. Edward Hudson in March 1862 joined ...

Ill-Fated Brothers - Hosea and Ethan Grosh

Nevada Centennial Marker No.19

Two well-educated brothers, Hosea and Ethan Grosh, discovered silver here in 1856 but both died in 1857 before their ore was assayed. Had they lived they might have gone on to locate the Comstock Lode. Their cabin ...

Paces Ferry United Methodist Church

Established 1877

On 29 September 1877 William Brown donated one acre of land at the intersection of Paces Ferry and Mount Paran Roads for the purpose of establishing and building a church. Pleasant Hill Methodist Church was first served by circuit ...