Confederate Cemetery

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Stonewall Cemetery is located on part of a plot given as a burial site by Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin when he founded Griffin in 1840. Several hundred Confederate and one Union soldier, casualties of the Battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro, ...

The Orphan Brigade

At Bear Creek Station (Hampton), on Sept. 4, 1864, Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Lewis famous “Orphan Brigade” (2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th Kentucky Infantry) was relieved from assignment to Bate’s division, Hardee’s corps. Army of Tennessee [CS], in which ...

Orange Veterans Monument

Amerigion Legion Post 127

In Memory Of

The Veterans Of

The War of Independence

War of 1812

Civil War

Spanish American War

World War I

World War II

Korean War

Vietnam War

Marker is at the intersection of Orange Center Road and Meetinghouse Lane, on the right when traveling south on ...

Battle of Lake George

Sept. 8, 1755

Right of Monument:

Defeat would have

opened the road to

Albany to the French

Back of Monument:

1903

The Society of Colonial Wars

erected this monument to commemorate

the victory of the colonial forces

under General William ...

Trenches and Tunnels / Army Discipline

Trenches and Tunnels

It was common for forts of this period to have rifle pits or trenches outside the walls as a line of first defense. Fort Cumberland was likely no exception. However, the excavations most people refer to apparently had ...

National Tube Works

Incorporated 1869, the works began production here, 1872. By 1901, when it became a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, this was the world's largest pipe producer. Major advances in inspection techniques originated here. Plant operations ceased in 1987.

Marker is on Lysle ...

Helen Richey

(1909-1947)

In 1934 this McKeesport native became the 1st woman to pilot a commercial airliner. Discriminated against because she was a woman, she resigned within a year and went on to become the 1st woman licensed instructor by the Civil Aeronautics ...

John De La Howe Forest

John de la Howe Forest

has been designated a

Resigtered

Natural Landmark

This site possesses exceptional value

as an illustration of the nation's natural

heritage and contributes to a better

understanding of man's environment.

Marker is on Tomb Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hopkins Corners

Hopkins Corners

Homestead of Addison J. Hopkins was in this area in the 1800's. Descendant of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Mayflower Compact and Joseph Hopkins of Cape Cod one of Carmel's original settlers.

Placed here by Richard C. Hopkins ...

First Court of Giles County

Giles County was formed from Montgomery, Monroe (now in West Virginia), and Tazewell Counties in 1806. It was named for William Branch Giles, United States senator from Virginia and later governor. North of here, the first court of Giles County ...