Skirmish of Heathcote Hill

Gen. Washington sent 750

men to attack 400 Queen’s

Rangers encamped here in

the pre-dawn Oct. 22, 1776

Marker is at the intersection of Fenimore Road and Cortlandt Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Fenimore Road.

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Clifton

Lee’s Retreat

Generals Grant and Meade used this location for their headquarters during the night. Grant stayed in the house and it was here that he received Lee’s second letter suggesting a peace meeting. He left the next morning for Appomattox ...

California Hot Springs

The first people to use the hot springs were the Bokninuwad Yokuts also called "Hoeynche" who called it "Kahtililkau" hot water. In the late 1870's T.J. and N.B. Witt filed claim to Upper Deer Creek "Hoyen Idik" which included the ...

Eve of Appomattox

Part of Lee’s army passed here, April 8, 1865, retreating westward. The second (Humphrey’s) Corps of Grant’s army passed, in pursuit, in the afternoon of the same day. Grant spent the night here, receiving early in the morning of April ...

Frederick County Courthouse

Witness to War

During the Civil War, the Union and Confederate armies each used the Frederick County Courthouse as a hospital and a prison.

Cornelia McDonald, a local citizen, nursed the wounded here after the First Battle of Kernstown on March 23, ...

The South Fork Dam

You are now standing on what remains of the South Fork Dam. Completed in 1853, the dam was made chiefly of earth. Layers of clay one-foot-thick or less were built up one by one. Each layer was covered with a ...

Samuel Forbes

This Land Was Deeded To

The Church By

Samuel Forbes

As a Burying Ground

In 1823

Names of the 126 Bodies

Who Rest Here Are Recorded

in the

"Book of Rememberance."

Marker can be reached from the intersection of East Canaan Road (U.S. 44) and Lower Road, on the ...

Second Battle of Winchester

June 13-15, 1863 took place during Gen. Lee’s advance to Gettysburg between Confederates under Gen. Ewell and Federals under Gen. Milroy. The Federals occupied positions on the hills north and west of Winchester now called Milroys and Star Forts from ...

Orleans Battalion of Artillery

Within this burial memorial rest some of the gallant defenders of New Orleans, members of the battalion which fought in honor on the plains of Chalemette on January 8 1815 against the British invaders.

Date of construction is unknown.

Restored ...

Third Battle of Winchester

Near here Early, facing east, took his last position on September 19, 1864. About sundown he was attacked and driven from it, retreating south. Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley served in this engagement on the Union side.

Marker is ...