Veterans Memorial / Cpl. Red Cloud Tribute

Korea

Lest We

Forget

In Honor

of all

Veterans,

POWs – MIAs

24th Infantry

"Victory Division"

Designed by Cpl. Donald E. Hahn

34th and 19th Reg.

Tribute to

Cpl. Mitchell Red Cloud Jr.

American Indian

19th Reg.

Medal of Honor

Friendship, Wis.

Red Cloud Post 250

American Legion

Adams - Friendship, Wisconsin

Marker is at the intersection of Main ...

Civil War Hospital

Site of Jefferson General Hospital, the third largest hospital in the United States during the Civil War. Under Dr. Middleton Goldsmith's command it served over 16, 000 patients.

Marker is on East Park Place east of Crestview Court, on the right ...

Carver Memorial Library

Captain George A. Carver was born in 1836. He was, in turn, a ship's carpenter, builder, owner and master. Later Carver helped found a successful New York ship chandlery business.Retiring in 1893, Carver returned to Searsport, living where Moose Point ...

Four Towns Methodist Church

Four Towns received its name because it is near the point where the townships of West Bloomfield, Commerce, Waterford, and White Lake meet. In 1866 a frame schoolhouse was built here, on land donated by Nathan R. Colvin. From that ...

Interpreting Jamestown

In 1934, the National Park Service acquired 1,500 acres of Jamestown Island, including New Towne. Since then, the NPS has used different methods to tell visitors about the town. After archaeologists unearthed numerous structures with brick foundations and cellars, they ...

Defense Strategies

Imagine defending this isolated peninsula during the Civil War. There were threats from within (from thousands of prisoners) and from without (by Confederate soldiers trying to free their comrades or gain territory). What's more, a pro-Southern population surrounding the Point.

To ...

Zion Episcopal Church

Erected 1848

The edifice has been spared modernization and is a perfect replica of a typical English rural parish church of the Tudor-Gothic period.

The altar, communion rail, lectern-pulpit, and prayer desk are handmade of native walnut. The entire structure is put ...

Shipwreck!

Centuries of storms, fogs, shoals, collisions, combat, poor judgement and bad luck have plagued local mariners. Gazing across Point Lookout's waters, we can only wonder how many of their wrecks litter the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac ...

The Chapman-Ruffner House

Boyhood Home of the “Fighting Chapmans”

Immigrant Peter Ruffner built this house about 1739. Before the Civil War, William A. Chapman bought it, and three sons reared here later fought for the Confederacy. For their exploits as members of Col. John ...

A Bustling Civil War Community

By the end of the Civil War in 1865, the military bases at Point Lookout had grown into a small city. Besides the hospitals and prison camp, you could find dockyards, saw mills and warehouses - even a railroad, a ...