Malvern Hill

Nearby stood the Malvern Hill manor house built for Thomas Cocke in the 17th century. The Marquis de Lafayette camped here in July-August 1781, and elements of the Virginia militia encamped nearby during the War of 1812. During the Civil ...

Howard's March to Buckhead

July 18, 1864. Howard’s 4th A.C. left Crossroads Ch 4:30 A.M., Newton’s div leading, followed by Stanley’s & Wood’s. Just below Mt. Paran Rd. Newton’s column was assailed by Williams’ Kentucky Brigade of Wheeler’s cav., which opposed the Federals all ...

Shirley

The house a short distance south, Shirley was first occupied in 1613 and was known as West-and-Shirley Hundred. In 1664, Edward Hill patented the place, which was left by the third Edward Hill to his sister, Elizabeth Carter, in 1720. ...

Van Sweringen Demonstration House

City of Shaker Heights Landmark

Van Sweringen

Demonstration House

1924

Shaker Heights Landmark Commission

1983

Marker is on Van Aken Boulevard.

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Lancaster’s Richard Outcault

1863–1928

He created the first comic strip ... De Yellow Kid.

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“And Buster Brown too!”

Marker is on West Wheeling Street west of North Broad Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Salem Church

This church, four miles north, was used as a field hospital, June, 1864, following the action an Nance's Shop, where the Union cavalryman Gregg, guarding a wagon train, was attacked by Wade Hampton. Gregg was driven from the field but ...

William Tecumseh Sherman

Lancaster’s native son, Civil War General William

Tecumseh Sherman, was a four star military

genius. He played a major role in the Union

victory during the Civil War as a brilliant commander

and grand strategist who revolutionized war by

incorporating psychological and economic warfare

into his ...

Aviation Tragedy

In the evening hours of December 6, 1953 four F-84D jet aircraft of 128th Fighter Bomber Squadron of the Georgia Air National Guard crashed near this site. They were returning from a routine weekend training flight from the Miami area ...

49th New York Infantry

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):49th

N.Y. Inf'y

3d Brig 2d Div 6th Corps

(Back):Held this

position

July 3d 1863.

Mustered in

Aug. 26th 1861.

Engaged in

30 battles

Mustered out

June 27th 1865.

Marker can be reached from Clapsdale Road, ...

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

33 Liberty Street, York & Sawyer, Architects, 1919-24

Deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lies more than one quarter of the world’s known reserves of gold bullion. These tens of billions of dollars’ worth of gold bars, ...