Bedford

Hunter’s Raid

On the evening of June 15, 1864, the lead element of Union Gen. David Hunter’s 18,000-man army arrived here and cam near Avenel. The main force arrived the following morning and started destroying the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad tracks, ...

1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion

ELKO Engineers

Service Time 5-43 to 7-46

Richmond - Elko - New Guinea

Biak - Luzon - Japan

Dedicated 9-16-94

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Nicholas Bertoli Building

Erected 1842 by Samuel Holden and John Cuminger, builders for Nicholas Bertoli, grocer.

Occupied as the Pacific Concert Salon, 1855-1876.

Owned by the family of Jean Louis Tissot, 1876-1897.

Its granite columns are typical of the 1840’s Greek Revival.

The ...

Sheepshead Bay Veterans Memorial

For God and Country

In memory of those who served in the Armed Forces of our country. Bill Brown Post No. 507 American Legion

Marker is on Jerome Avenue.

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Pry’s Mill Bridge

This two-arch bridge was built over the Little Antietam Creek by George Burgan for $1,650 in 1858. Its cutwaters, the upstream pier bulwarks designed to divide the current and break up ice flows and log jams, are unique in that ...

Cartledge Creek Baptist Church

Originally Dockery's Meeting House, about 1774. Baptist State Convention, 1833, voted here to found Wake Forest Institute. About 4 miles North

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Avenue (Business U.S. 74) and Cartledge Creek (North Carolina Road 1005), on the ...

Hess’s Mill Bridge

This two-arch bridge was built by John Weaver in 1832. It is unique in that one arch is so much larger than the other. The smaller arch may have accommodated the millrace which was located on that side of the ...

Site of the Campbell County Court House

Where, in June 1867 the widow of Captain T.C. Glover called a reunion of the survivors of Company A, 21st Georgia, C.S.A. who agreed to hold annual meetings.

Marker is on Fairburn Campbellton Road near Cochran Road SW, on the right. ...

Respite at Smithsburg

“An Oasis in the Desert”

Gettysburg Campaign

Following a night of harassing the Confederate wagon train retreating from Gettysburg, Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick’s Union cavalry division arrived here about 9 a.m. on July 5, 1963, escorting 1,360 prisoners. Wet, tired, hungry, and ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Invasion & Retreat

After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through the ...