Morris County Court House

1827

One of the finest examples

of public buildings in the

Federal style in New Jersey.

Original Court House on the

Green built in 1755.

Morris County Heritage Commission

Marker is on Washington Street (County Route 510), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Elihu Root

New York, Home of Distinguished Americans

February 15, 1845 - February 7, 1937

Secretary of State in the Cabinet of

President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905-09

Secretary of War, 1899-1904

Senator from New York, 1909-1915

lived in a house on this site ...

Fields of Fire

At the end of 1863, more than fifty cannon stood ready to defend Fortress Rosecrans. Five, including one 8-inch siege howitzer, were assigned to Lunette Palmer.

The lunettes of Fortress Rosecrans were primarily artillery platforms. The ground in front of the ...

Fort Peachtree, War of 1812

One of a line of forts hastily constructed during the War of 1812 to control the Creek Indians who were in alliance with the British, of the Chattahoochee River and Peachtree Creek, and overlooked the Creek trading-post town of Standing ...

General Grierson’s March

This road marks the entrance into Eufaula of Federal Troops on April 29, 1865. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia on April 9. General Benjamin H. Grierson was advancing with four thousand cavalry from Mobile and was then about at ...

Arville L. Funk

1929-1990

Civil War cannon has been dedicated

to the memory of Arville L. Funk:

historian, author, lawyer, teacher,

civic and church leader

This six-pound field gun is similar to those used by General John Hunt Morgan’s Raiders and the Harrison County Home Guard. One cannon ...

Bell Predates the Civil War

In loving memory

David J. Dukes, M.D.

July 16, 1927 — June 15, 1991

Remembered for his love of music, church, sailing, family, and his fellow man.

The bell predates the Civil War and may have been in the First Methodist Church around the ...

Gen. Henry Knox Trail

Through this place passed

General Henry Knox

in the winter of

1775 – 1776

to deliver to

General George Washington

at Cambridge

the train of artillery

from Fort Ticonderoga used

to force the British Army

to evacuate Boston.

Erected by the Commonwealth

of Massachusetts 1927

Marker is at the intersection of Boston Post ...

Armistead and Hancock

Friends and fellow officers in the United States Army prior to 1861, the fate of Civil War made them foes on the battlefield at Gettysburg. Confederate Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead and Union Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock were both ...

Confederate Hospital

Confederate Hospital

1861 - 1865

“Sanctuary for valiant

and courageous men”

Built for a river tavern 1836

Placed by

Barbour County Chapter

United Daughter of the

Confederacy.

Marker is at the intersection of Riverside Drive and Front Street, on the right when traveling north on Riverside Drive.

Courtesy ...