Henry Hill Walking Tour

Retracing the Battle

On the tour route you follow in the footsteps of charging Union and Confederate troops, and stand where they loaded cannon or braced for a bayonet assault. Terrain and tree lines have changed little since that day. As ...

New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired

The New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired was founded on granted land in 1903 by the new territorial governor. The teacher and later regent was the blind daughter of lawman Pat Garrett, Elizabeth Garrett, who solicited the ...

Marblehead Soldiers Memorial

[ north side ]

In Memory of Our Country's Defenders

1776 – 1812 – 1861

Erected by the Citizens of Marblehead

Dedicated July 4, 1876

Our Patriots Who

Fell In Defense Of

The Union

1861 • M. Hennessy • S.J. Goodwin • W. Blaney • J.H. Collyer ...

Witmer's Tavern

One of the best surviving structures of its type. Original east end built about 1725 by Benjamin Witmer, agent for the London Land Company. Passed on to his son, tavern-keeper John Witmer. Enlarged by Henry Witmer, 1773. Family was prominent ...

Fraternizing at the Ford

The Rappahannock River During the Civil War

The Rappahannock River served as a barrier separating the Union and Confederate Armies during the winter of 1862-63. Places where the water level, the river bottom, and the steepness of the banks were favorable ...

Jonathan Wright Homestead

circa 1815

Jonathan Wright (1782-1855) and his wife Mary Bateman Wright (1787-1866) moved with their five children from Menallen, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1814 and built this Federal style house. Using skills acquired from his father, Joel Wright, a surveyor who ...

Maynard Block

Site of the Historic

Maynard Block

Here was the Heart

of the City

A large building housed the

post office & stock exchange

dry goods & drug stores

meat & grocery markets

French modiste hair dresser

barber shop & doctors offices

Maynard Station Tavern

Marker is on North Main ...

Isaac Long Barn

The United Brethren in Christ, and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, trace their origin to the joint efforts of Rev. Philip w. Otterbein of the German Reformed Church and Martin Boehm, a Mennonite preacher, as a revival held here about ...

Harveysburg / The Harveysburg School

Side A: Harveysburg

The Quaker village of Harveysburg was founded in 1829 on land originally a part of Colonel Abraham Buford's Revolutionary War Land Grant. Levi Lukens, a Virginia Quaker, purchased the 1000 - acre survey in 1812 and sold a ...

Ephrata Cloister

Surviving buildings of the famous Ephrata community of Seventh Day Baptists, founded by Conrad Beissel, 1732. Turn to the right here to see this State historic shrine.

Marker is at the intersection of PA 272 and US 332, on the right ...