Lightburne Hall

Built in 1852 by Major Alvan Lightburne as his private residence. This 24 room Greek Revival plantation home is one of Northwest Missouri’s largest surviving antebellum mansions. Union soldiers camped on the grounds during the Civil War. Restored in the ...

Last Confederate Bivouac

A Confederate force under General Bradley T. Johnson camped here July 31, 1864, after raiding and burning Chambersburg. They were the last Confederates to camp on Pennsylvania soil.

Marker is at the intersection of Great Cove Road (U.S. 522) and Confederate ...

Mount Salem Church

Circa 1864

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on County Route 579, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Marshall House

As part of a natural reorganization, the U.S. Army returned the headquarters of the Department of the Columbia from Portland, Oregon to Fort Vancouver in 1878. As a result, the Army funded construction of several new buildings on Officers Row, ...

Last Confederate Bivouac

General Bradley T. Johnson

of the

Confederate Army

encamped 20 rods west

of this marker at

the Patterson home

July 31, 1864

after the burning of

Chambersburg

This was the last

Confederate bivouac

north of the

Mason and Dixon line.

Dedicated by

the Pittsburgh Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Mount Pleasant General Store

This property, comprising the Mount Pleasant General Store and a smokehouse at the rear, is on the National and State Registers. The smokehouse was constructed in the early 1830's, and the store was erected around 1840. Both were built by ...

Sara Spencer Washington

A Virginia entrepreneur who headed north in 1911, opened Arctic Avenue Beauty Salon in Atlantic City. She expanded by teaching beauty culture door-to-door with products of the day, some self-styled. Madame Washington, as she would later be called, patented a ...

Designed for Defense

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

...[The Creek] had erected a breast-work, of greatest compactness and strength-from five to eight feet high, and prepared with double rows of port-holes very artfully arranged...an army could not approach it without being exposed to a ...

Colonel Charles Young

1864-1922

Colonel Charles Young, cavalryman, military intelligence officer, Huachuca commander, and paragon of honor.

An American Legend

Charles Young was the third black graduate of the United States Military Academy, class of 1889. Young enjoyed a diverse military career as ...

Charge!

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Having maintained for a few minutes a very obstinate contest, muzzle to muzzle, through the port-holes, in which many of the enemy's balls were welded to the bayonets of our musquets, our troops succeeded in gaining ...