Mrs. Henderson's Legacy

Roads to Diversity

As you look up the hill, you can see Peter C. L’Enfant’s 1791 plan for Washington ended up here in front of you at Boundary Avenue, now Florida Avenue. Back then, when people walked or rode in ...

In Commemoration

1732 ---- 1932

In Commemoration Of

The Two Hundredth Birthday Of

George Washington

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Rochambeau

Established a Camp Here

June 28 To July 1, 1781

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Soldiers Commanded By

Lafayette

Camped At This Spot

Placed by Mary Silliman Chapter

N.S.D.A.R.

Marker is at the intersection of Church Hill Road (U.S. ...

Turner's, Howell's Baker's & Sandtown Ferries

This, the old Sandtown Road was the route of McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee [US], south to the Mitchell house, July 5, 1864.

From Mitchell’s, an old road ran east to the Chattahoochee River at Turner’s Ferry, most of its ...

World War II Roll of Honor

City of Meriden

World War II Roll of Honor

[ The memorial consists of twelve bronze tablets. 5,280 names are listed. A small plaque labeled “Omissions” lists 102 additional names. ]

[ The 144 names listed below have a ...

Bayonets Are For Digging

This covered-way, constructed after June 3, connected the main Confederate line behind you to the low ground in front. A South Carolinian stationed near here recalled:

To guard against the shells that were continually dropping in our midst or outside of ...

Concordia Hall and Jewish Life in Little Rock

Site of the first Jewish house of worship in Arkansas

From 1882 to 1887, an ornate two-story space on the second floor of this building served as the social hall for the Concordia Association – an organization established in 1864 to ...

Confederate Breastworks

This remarkably preserved stretch of the main Confederate line saw little action. Although the land here was much less wooded in 1864, its occupants appreciated the partial shelter offered by the low ground. The soldiers took advantage of it to ...

Soldiers' Reaction to Lincoln's Emancipation

Whether a soldier was Union or Confederate in his loyalties during the Civil War, there was not a unified reaction to Abraham Lincoln’s preliminary or official Emancipation Proclamation. The individual reaction varied on either side of this struggle, both north ...

Main Crown Forces Hospital

Burgoyne’s retreating army was forces to leave its sick and wounded to the care of the Americans. The main British medical facilities were located on the flat area below and to your right.

Marker can be reached from Park Tour Road, ...

Cemetery / Command Officer’s Quarters

The two mounds of stones inside the square formed by the granite posts, were thought to be the camp cemetery. Accordingly, a memorial marker was erected to mark the site in 1902.

Archaeology work has proven this site to be ...