Company Street (Fireback Row)

The enlisted men’s encampment consisted of 116 log huts set in a double row for almost a quarter mile down the company street. The only above ground remains of those huts today are the piles of collapsed stone chimneys. Each ...

Memorial Monument

Memorial Monument

Constructed in 1888, one year after the commissioning of the park, this monument honors the three different camps in Redding during the winter of 1778 – 79. This monument is the very first structure erected at the ...

75th Pennslyvania Volunteers

In memoriam

of our

comrades

75th P.V.

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling south.

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The March to the Sea

On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his army [US] into two wings. ...

Lord Fairfax

At sometime prior to the incorporation of Winchester, Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, and at one time a Justice of the County of Frederick, dedicated to the public uses of the square which is bounded by Court House Avenue ...

Steamboating on the Missouri

First Steamboats

Early steamboat trips on the Missouri River tested boats, crews and passengers. Between 1820 and 1900, several hundred steamboats on the Missouri were destroyed by fire or boiler explosions, crushed by ice, or sunk by snags. The first steamboat ...

Camp Guardhouse

Camp Guardhouse

A log hut which was reconstructed about 1890 on the remains of a hut from 1778. The actual purpose of the original structure is in question, although local lore said it was the Guardhouse. The construction and ...

Major General John Reynolds

(Front):Major-General

John F. Reynolds

U.S.V.

(Left):Killed

at

Gettysburg

July 1

MDCCCLXIII

(Right):Born

at

Lancaster, Pa.

September XXI

MDCCCXX

(Back):To his memory

by the

first

Army corps

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling south.

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Lynchburg Defenses

During the Civil War, a line of trenches and

fortified artillery positions extending past

here were built late in 1863 to defend Lynchburg against attack from the north. Brig.

Gen. Francis T. Nicholls was responsible for

ensuring that the local militia, invalids, and

convalescents properly ...

Dirck Swart House

Headquarters Aug. 3 – 14, 1777,

of Gen. Philip Schuyler.

Arnold marched from here to

relief of Fort Stanwix.

Marker is on Hudson Avenue (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling south.

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