William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

In 1775 took William Bartram to Fort James on the "Petersburg Road" and passed through Lincoln County, parts now covered by Clark Hill Reservoir

Marker is at the intersection of Coach Jimmy Smith Highway (U.S. 378) and Old Petersburg Road ...

Joseph J. "Joe" Buzas

Joseph J. "Joe" Buzas

In Grateful Appreciation

For Bringing

Minor League Baseball

To New Britain In 1983

Marker is at the intersection of John Karbonic Way and South Main Street, on the right when traveling west on John Karbonic Way.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Balcarres Redoubt

Stunned and reeling from fighting in Barber’s Wheat Field, Crown Forces were able to re-form here behind previously constructed defenses. These log-and-earth walls had been built shortly after September 19, 1777. These fortifications are now known as the Balcarres Redoubt, ...

Burial: A Most Disagreeable Task

The treatment of soldiers killed in action depended on which army held the battlefield after the guns fell silent. At South Mountain a few men from each Union regiment were assigned to burial details. To prevent the spread of disease, ...

First Presbyterian Church

Dedicated Jan. 1, 1867

This Carpenter Gothic Church was built at a cost of $12,000.

It is listed as No. 301 of the American Presbyterian & Reformed Historic Sites.

Marker is on South C Street (Nevada Route 341), on the ...

New Britain Spanish-American War Memorial

[ panel 1 ]

In Memoriam

Not a war for conquest or

military glory, but a righte

ous war fought by American vol

unteers to succor the weak and

oppressed against foreign tyr

anny and to give to Cuba and

the Philippines a place among ...

World War II Bombing Ranges

[Front]:

Lake Murray islands, most notably Lunch Island (since 1945 also called Bomb Island or Doolittle Island), Shull Island, and Dreher Island, were used as bombing ranges during World War II. B-25 crews from the Columbia Army Air Base (now Columbiana ...

The Errant Pontoon Bridge: Paces Ferry

July 5, 1864. During Johnston’s retreat from Smyrna, a portion of his wagon-train detoured from the Atlanta-Marietta rd. via Vining’s Station to a pontoon bridge at Pace’s Ferry.

Wheeler’s Cav. escorted the trains; when all were across, the bridge was cut ...

To Elihu Burritt

Peace And

Universal

Brotherhood

[ back ]

1810 1879

To Elihu Burritt

Learned Blacksmith

Scholar Linguist Phil

anthropist to Whose

Love For Humanity

The World Owes the

First International

Peace Congress and

Ocean Penny Postage

This Memorial Is Erect

ed by His Fellow Citizens

MCMXVI

Marker is at the intersection ...

Rev. John Beach, A.M.

1732 1907

Near This Spot

Under a Large Buttonball Tree

Rev. John Beach, A.M.

Missionary of The Society

For the Propagation of the Gospel

Held His First Service

As Rector of Trinity Church

Newtown in September 1732

Marker is at the intersection of Glover Avenue and Main Street (Connecticut ...