Second Battle of Manassas

The center of Lee’s army rested here on August 30, 1862; Jackson was to the north of this road, Longstreet to the south. Late in the afternoon, after Jackson had repulsed Pope’s assaults, Longstreet moved eastward, driving the Union forces ...

The Battle of Long Island

22-29 August 1776

In the summer of 1776 this site saw both the first coast defense of the newborn United States & the opening of the largest battle of the Revolutionary War. On that original Fourth of July, a small American ...

Welker's Battery

Battery H, 1st Missouri Lt. Arty. - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Welker's Battery,

"H" 1st Mo. Lt. Art., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery was in position here from 4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Pittsburg ...

Murphy Brothers

The brothers John Murphy (1824-1892) and Daniel Murphy (1826-1882) reportedly pitched their trading tent near this site late in 1848.

Marker is on Main Street west of Big Trees Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Colonel William Baxter

In grateful remembrance of

the patriot volunteers of

the Pennsylvania Flying Camp

led by

Colonel William Baxter

of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

who with many of his men fell

while defending this height

16 November 1776

and was buried near this spot.

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This rock

stood within the lines of

Fort George

the principal work ...

Hiawatha Bridge

Erected 1968

Named in commemoration of the Indian Sachem Hiawatha of the Iroquois Nation

Marker is on NYS 17 Access Road 0.3 miles east of Southside Drive (New York Route 434), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bennettsville Presbyterian Church

Marker Front:

This church was founded in 1855 by nine members of the Great Pee Dee Presbyterian Church, 5 mi. SE. Rev. Pierpont E. Bishop was its first permanent minister. The first church, a frame building, was dedicated in 1855. Elder ...

Old Bridges at this Location

Hancocks Bridge and the Revolution War

Old Bridges at this Location

The first bridge across Alloways Creek at this location was built by John Hancock and others in 1709 and was known as Hancocks Bridge.

The same year (1709) two other bridges were ...

Battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861

The Battle of Ball’s Bluff was the result of a mistake. The previous evening, Capt. Chase Philbrick, Co. H, 15th Massachusetts, led a small reconnaissance patrol across the river to determine the results of some earlier Confederate troop movements. Philbrick ...

Birthplace of Monroe

In this vicinity stood the Monroe home where James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, was born, April 28, 1758. His father was Spence Monroe and his mother, Elizabeth Jones. He left home at the age of sixteen to ...