Gettysburg Campaign

On June 28, 1863, part of General Jubal Early's Confederate Division neared York by this route. Here Early sent Colonel French to York Haven to burn bridges. Ordered to rejoin Lee's army, most of Early's men returned over this road ...

Hannah Cole's Fort

In 1810 Hannah Cole and her nine children crossed the Missouri River and built a cabin on the site of Boonville, thus becomig the first white settlers south of the river.

After repeated Indian trouble in 1814 it was deemed necessary ...

Star of the West, Tent No. Six

An African American women's community service organization chartered 1865. A part of the United Order of Tents, J.R. Giddings and Jollifee Union, founded in 1847 and named for abolitionist Congressman Giddings and his law partner.

Marker is on South Adams ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins and his staff occupied this house, June 28-30, 1863. His brigade, a part of General Ewell's Corps, had entered Mechanicsburg to reconnoiter the approaches to Harrisburg with a view toward a June 30 attack. The ...

Susie Rayos Marmon - Ga-wa goo maa (Early Riser)

1877-1988

Educated at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania under the U.S. policy of acculturating Indian children through school and removal from their homelands, Susie was instrumental in bringing education back to Laguna. A lifelong teacher, oral historian, and storyteller, Susie ...

Joseph T. Rothrock

Conservationist, father of the State Forest idea in Pennsylvania, lived in this house from 1876 until his death in 1922. He pioneered in the development of forest fire control, reforestation, and scientific forestry.

Marker is at the intersection of N. ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Farthest advance of a body of Confederate troops toward Harrisburg. Southern units under General A. G. Jenkins of Ewell's Corps reached Oyster Point on June 28, 1863. On the next day defending militia faced them here in a skirmish in ...

Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard

Baseball Hall Of Famer

Rocky Mount Native

Born near this spot in 1907. Rose to

fame in the Negro Leagues, 1933-50.

Won Negro National League pennant

nine straight years while first baseman

of the Homestead Grays. Ranked

among home run leaders and won

Negro National League ...

Miller-Fish Building

circa 1887

In this block, early settler Charles A Miller owned a hay & grain store, livery stable, and buggy & carriage shop. All fell to the flames of the 1886 fire. Miller was among the first to rebuild, erecting the ...

13th Connecticut Volunteer Regiment

(Front):13th. Regt. Conn. Vols.

(Back):Georgia Landing La. Oct. 27, 1862.

Irish Bend La. Apr. 14, 1863.

Vermillion Bayou La. Apr. 17, 1863.

Siege of Port Hudson May 24, to July 9, 1863.

Cane River La. Apr. 22, 1864.

Mansura La. May 16, 1864.

Winchester Va. Sep. 19, ...