Civil War Strasburg

Strategic Intersection

The railroad tracks before you follow the route of the Manassas Gap Railroad, which reached Strasburg from Washington, D.C., in 1854. The line was a vital link between the Shenandoah Valley and eastern markets. Strasburg became strategically important because ...

Mule Barn

Originally erected in 1830 at Glendale Plantation, Lucy, Louisiana. Donated by the Lanaux family, moved and reassembled at Destrehan Plantation in 1997.

Dedicated by the River Road Historical Society March 28, 1999.

Marker can be reached from River Road.

Courtesy ...

Imboden's Brigade

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Army of Northern Virginia

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Imboden's Brigade

18th Virginia Cavalry, 62nd. Virginia Infantry

Virginia Partisan Rangers and Virginia Battery

July 3 Command guarding trains.

Reached the field at noon and retired with the trains that night.

No report or details of losses.

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Jug Bridge

An engineering marvel for early America

In 1800, travelers expected to ford rivers or use ferries that were slow and often risky in bad weather. The Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike Company, building the first leg of the National Road in 1805, ...

Shelling of Columbia

Prior to the capture of Columbia by Gen. William T. Sherman, Federal artillery shelled the city on February 16, 1865, from the batteries on this hill and in the road at this end of the Congaree River bridge. Shots were ...

17th British Regiment of Foot

British War Veterans of America, Inc.

New York Branch of the

British Legion

erected this plaque to perpetuate the memories of men of the 17th British Regiment of Foot who died near this spot defending the Stony Point fortification against General Wayne’s American ...

General James Birdseye McPherson

Side A : "General James Birdseye McPherson"

James Birdseye McPherson was born in Hamer's Corners (now Clyde) on November 14, 1828. He left this house at age 13 to work in nearby Green Springs. He attended Norwalk Academy and West Point, ...

Brig. Gen. John Patterson House

About Thirty Feet from this Spot

Stood the House in Which

Brig. Gen. John Patterson

Was Born in 1743 - 4

Member of two Provincial

Congresses from Lenox Mass.

Leader in the War of Independence

Distinguished Jurist and Member of

Congress from Lisle N.Y.

Where He Died in 1808

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Stony Point Battlefield

Stony Point Battlefield

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of the United States.

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1962

Marker can be reached ...

Site of the First Presbyterian Church of Beaver County Pennsylva

The congregation was served by supply ministers from 1784 until the coming of George M. Scott on Sept 14, 1799 he served Mill Creek Church for 40 years and rests in this burial ground

Marker is on Old Mill Creek Church ...