Battle Acre

September 12, 1814

Here General Stricker’s City Brigade inflicted severe losses upon the main body of the British Army. This spirited defense together with that of Fort McHenry the next night saved Baltimore.

Marker is at the intersection of North Point Road ...

Philadelphia Beirut Bombing Memorial

October 23, 1983

241 servicemen killed in the

Beirut, Lebanon terrorist bombing

In Memoriam

to the Philadelphia Marine casualties of

the Beirut Peace Keeping Mission

Cpl. Moses Arnold, Jr. • Sgt. John J. Bonk, Jr. • Cpl. Thomas A. ...

John Beale Bordley

The noted agriculturist purchased land just north of here in 1792 and named it "Como Farm". Here he conducted numerous experiments on crop rotation and maintenance of soil fertility. Bordley planned new devices for seeding and reaping wheat. His works ...

New Purchase Boundary

(Treaty of St. Mary's)

In October 1818, Purchasing Commissioners Lewis Cass, Benjamin Parke and Governor Jonathan Jennings acquired Indian claims on the land shown on this marker. About one-third of modern Indiana, was involved in this transaction.

Marker is on Indiana Route ...

Osborne's Hill

Osborne's Hill

From this ridge General Howe directed

the movements of the British Army

during the Battle of Brandywine,

September 11, 1777.

__________

Erected by

The Pennsylvania Historical Commission

and the Chester and Delaware County

Historical Societies

1915

Marker is ...

U.S. Branch Bank

1805

First home & domicile of

Ursuline Nuns

on arrival from France

1727

Marker is at the intersection of Chartres Street and Bienville Street on Chartres Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church

This church, one of the Nation’s most historic, traces its beginnings to a small group of Scottish stonemasons meeting in a carpenter’s shop on the grounds of the White House during its construction in 1793.

Many prominent Americans, including 17 ...

Fossil Beds

Fossil bones of zebras, beaver, otter, pelicans and other water birds are found in sediments left from a 3,400,000 year old pond on the bluff across the river.

Lava flows, pouring out over the plains on this side, met and dammed ...

Brander's Battery - Pegram's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Artillery Reserve

Pegram's Battalion Brander's Battery

The Letcher Artillery

Two Napoleons, Two 10 pounder Parrotts

July 1 In position at first on the ridge west of Herr's Tavern but moved later to a hill east ...

NYC Bomb and Forgery Squad Explosion Memorial

This plaque is dedicated to the memory of detectives

Joseph J. Lynch and Ferdinand A. Socha

Bomb and Forgery Squad

Who were killed in the line of duty while examining a time bomb taken from the British Pavilion of the World's Fair in ...