Ward's Battery - Poague's Battalion

Pender's Division - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Pender's Division

Poague's Battalion Ward's Battery

The Madison (Miss.) Light Artillery

Three Napoleons, one 12-pounder Howitzer

July 2 Late in the evening the Napoleons were placed in position about 400 yards eastward from this point.

July ...

Kingsbury Grade

Dagget Pass Trail, named for C.D. Dagget, who acquired land at its foot in 1854, was earlier called Georgetown Trail. Replaced in 1860 by the wagon road built by Kingsbury and McDonald, for which they received a Territorial Franchise in ...

Baltimore City Courthouse

This “noble pile” as it was described at the dedication of January 8, 1900, is the third courthouse built on Monument Square. When Calvert Street was leveled in 1784, the original courthouse—site of the May 1774 Stamp Act Protest and ...

Ridgebury – George Washington Slept Here

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Ridgebury, "The New Patent," was one of the last land purchases made by the Proprietors. Tradition says that the First Congregational Church in Ridgebury had its beginnings in the "New Patent Meeting House" as early as 1738. In ...

The Livery Stable and the First Catholic Church

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Whitlock's Livery, later the Sperry Livery stable, was across the street from the firehouse. Whitlock ran a stage to the Branchville station before the branch line was built in 1870. The livery stable also boarded horses, including those ...

Brooke's Battery - Poague's Battalion

Pender's Division - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Pender's Division

Poague's Battalion Brooke's Battery

Two Napoleons, Two 12 pounder Howitzers

July 2 Late in the evening the Napoleons were placed in position about 400 yards eastward from this point.

July 3 The Napoleons ...

Posey's Brigade

Anderson's Division - Hill's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Anderson's Division

Posey's Brigade

12th. 16th. 19th. 48th. Mississippi Infantry

July 2 Arrived and took position here in the morning. Through some misunderstanding of orders instead of the Brigade advancing in compact ranks in ...

Joseph Emerson Brown

Born April 15, 1821 in Pickens District, South Carolina, he grew up in Union County, Georgia. He taught to pay for his education and while teaching in Canton he read law at night, being admitted to the bar in August, ...

Ambush Started Here

The militia column, on its way to the relief of Fort Stanwix, marched into this ravine, August 6, 1777, and were ambushed by Loyalists and British. The attackers came out of hiding in woods on the west, the south and ...

A Tribute to Our Unsung Heroes

The heroes walk program was established by Mayor William Donald Schaefer in 1986, to honor those persons who have unselfishly given their time, labor and talents to help improve the quality of life in our community without ever seeking reward ...