Lander-Stewart Mansion

Circa 1880

The town's only brownstone, built in grandeous manner to resemble those of East Side Manhattan. Exotic woods, marble, tile and glass brought back from Stewart's European travels line its interior. The front doors are hand carved cypress from Lebanon. ...

Long Range Artillery Duel

This recreated gun battery marks the center of the Union lines. Between February and April 1862, eleven gun batteries were erected on Tybee Island. A battery was not located on this site, but the cannon on the left is an ...

Quarterpath Road

James Bray owned land nearby in Middle Plantation by the 1650s, and Quarterpath Road probably began as a horse path to one of Bray’s quarters or farm units. Over the years, the road was improved; it extended to Col. Lewis ...

Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade, First Corps

(Front):Cooper's

Battery B

First Pennsylvania Light Artillery,

(Penn'a Reserve Vol. Corps.)

Artillery Brigade, First Corps.

Present at Gettysburg, 114 Officers and Men.

Killed 3 Wounded 9.

Ammunition expended: (4 guns) 1050 Rounds.

(Left):Positions:July 1, 1863: Battery arrived at 12 m; Took position and was engaged ...

Great Circle Earthworks

The Great Circle Earthworks,

one remnant of the largest complex of geometric earthen enclosures ever built. The Newark Earthworks, situated on a high terrace between the South Fork of the Licking River and Raccoon Creek, once covered more than four square ...

Birthplace of “The Greatest Show on Earth”

At this site, March 20, 1871, the first P.T. Barnum Circus was loaded on rail cars and transported to Brooklyn, NY where it made its initial performance on April 10, 1871. The circus was conceived and organized in Delavan by ...

Gen. J. E. B. Stuart’s Cavalry

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry on his raid around the Federal army, Oct. 19, 1862, crossed the National Road here after crossing the Potomac River at McCoy’s Ferry three miles south of this point.

Marker is at the intersection of National Pike ...

Arthur S. Fairchild

This Plaque Expresses Appreciation

and Perpetuates the Memory of

Arthur S. Fairchild

Long time friend and president of

St. Thomas who on December 27, 1946

donated the major portion of

Magens Bay Beach and 56 acres of

land in perpetuity to the municipality

of St. Thomas and ...

Historic Sugartown

Village of

Sugartown

~ c.1790 ~

Historic District

National Register of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of Spring Road and Sugartown Road, on the left when traveling east on Spring Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Army Headquarters

Gen. George McClellan used the Pry House as the headquarters for the Union Army of the Potomac. Officers brought some of the Pry furniture out on the lawn. There eyewitnesses described a “small redan built of fence rails” with telescopes ...