Fort Couch - General Couch - Fort Washington

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Fort Couch was built as part of the emergency fortifications erected to defend Harrisburg and nearby bridges across the Susquehanna River during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania by Confederate forces. Fort Couch was built as an advance position ...

The Seven Ranges

This marker stands in the westernmost of the Seven Ranges of Townships, Northwest Territory, surveyed by the National Government in 1785-87. These Ranges constitute the first employment of the rectangular system in the surveying of national lands. A full township ...

Army of the Potomac

July 1, 1863

First Corps marched from Marsh Run, Eleventh Corps from Emmittsburg to Gettysburg. Second Corps from Uniontown via Taneytown to near Gettysburg. Third Corps from Bridgeport via Emmitsburg to the field of Gettysburg. Fifth Corps from Union Mills via ...

17th Maine Infantry

Position of 17th Maine Infty. July 3, 1863.

Losing here killed 2. Wounded 10.

This regt. fought July 2 in the Wheatfield

as shown by monument there losing 120.

Marker is at the intersection of Hancock Avenue and Pleasonton Avenue, on the left when ...

Scholz Garten

German immigrant August Scholz (1825-1891) opened Scholz’s Hall at this site in 1866. About the turn of the century, this building replaced the original hall. A German social club, the Austin Saengerrunde, purchased the property in 1908 and added the ...

Armenian Genocide

April 24, 1915, in memory of one and one half million Armenians, victims of the first genocide of the twentieth century.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of E. 14th Ave. and Grant St..

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Great Trail

The Great Trail of the Minquas or Susquehanna Indians from the Susquehanna to the Schuylkill crossed the present road about this point. It was the path prior to 1670 for their conquest of the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Indians and for ...

Four Corners – A Common Bond

This is the only place in the United States marking the common corner of four states – Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.

Who established this corner?

The four corners monument was established and perpetuated by U.S. Government Surveyors and Astronomers beginning ...

Departure of the Wyandot Indians

Ohio Historical Marker

[Front side of marker]: "Departure of the Wyandot Indians"

The 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs opened much of northwest Ohio to white settlement. In return, the U.S. Government granted the Wyandot Nation permanent use of the Grand Reserve at ...

New Hampshire - Berdan's Sharpshooters

2d Brigade, 1st Division

New Hampshire.

Cos. E, 1st Reg, F & G, 2nd Reg.

Berdan's U.S. Sharpshooters.

2d Brig, 1st Div, 3d Corps.

July 3, 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Hancock Avenue and Pleasonton Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Hancock ...