Nowhere To Go

For nearly two weeks, from June 3 to June 12, the soldiers endured the agony of trench warfare. One Virginian recalled:

Thousands of men cramped up in a narrow trench, unable to go out, or to get up, or to stretch ...

Fault Scarp

Measuring the Rise of the Range

A fault scarp provides visual evidence of displacement of adjoining blocks of the earth's crust along a fault. near the base of Rockchuck Peak, the scarp shows nearly 60 feet of movement, mostly in the ...

A Revolutionary Winter

Morristown National Historical Park commemorates the suffering of the Continental Army during the terrible winter encampment of 1779-1780. It commemorates also the ability and leadership of George Washington.

The main part of Washington’s army camped in Jockey Hollow during that ...

Colonial Industrial Quarter

1741 - 1800

“They have carried the mechanical Arts to greater Perfection here than in any Place which I have seen.”

John Adams to Abigail Adams

April, 1777

Early Industrial History

By 1745, only four years after they founded Bethlehem (1741), the Moravians, a modern ...

Sacramento Valley National Cemetery

Dedicated to the memory of

all the patriotic men and women

who answered their country’s call to service.

George W. Bush

President of the Untied States

R. James Nicholson

Secretary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

William F. Tuerk

Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs

National Cemetery Administration

[Second Plaque:]

From The Bivouac of ...

The Cathedral Group

Viewed from this perspective, Teewinot Mountain, the Grand Teton, and Mount Owen comprise the Cathedral Group."These peaks have been called the Cathedral Group...more evident here than in many of the great cathedrals of men is the Gothic note. It is ...

Camp Ford

On this site during the Civil War was located Camp Ford the largest prisoner of war compound for Union troops west of Mississippi river named in honor of Col. John S. "Rip" Ford who originally established a training camp here ...

The Grand Parade

A focal point of the sprawling “log cabin city” at Jockey Hollow was the Grand Parade. Each day, guard details assembled here for inspection, and General Orders from Washington’s headquarters were distributed. This was also the site of formal military ...

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Housatonic Crossing

French General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War for Independence. After wintering in Newport, Rochambeau’s ...

Crown Forces Artillery Park

When Burgoyne ordered his army into retreat, the Crown Forces Artillery Park – located on the flat area below and to your right – became a scene of frantic activity. The artillery equipment assembled there – larger field guns and ...