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China Burma India Hump Aircrews

In memory of those United States

and Allied personnel who flew the

Himalayas in the China Burma India theater in World War II

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Gettysburg Campaign

On June 26, 1863, Gen. R.S. Ewell, with orders to take Harrisburg, marched his army by this road toward Carlisle, which he reached next day. On June 29, he was ordered to rejoin Lee's army at Cashtown.

Marker is on ...

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Battle of Plum Run Bend

On May 10, 1862, Confederates defeated the Union navy in one of only two Civil War gunboat fleet engagements on the Mississippi River, ramming and sinking two Union ironclads, Cincinnati and Mound City. A reinforced Union armada routed the outnumbered ...

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Darbytown Road / Pioneer Baptist Church

The Battle of Darbytown Road, 7 Oct. 1864, was the last large Confederate offensive north of the James River. Gen. Robert E. Lee personally supervised the operation. Attacking from the west astride the Darbytown Road, Lee’s infantry shattered the right ...

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Gettysburg Campaign

Here on June 22, 1863, the First N.Y. Cavalry attacked the Southern advance force of cavalry under Gen. A.G. Jenkins. Here died the first Union soldier killed in action in Pennsylvania. Corporal William H. Rihl of Philadelphia serving in a ...

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In Honor of Nathaniel Haraden

In Honor Of

An Intrepid Son of Gloucester

Nathaniel Haraden

Sailing Master of The

U.S. Frigate Constitution

Commended for Gallantry in Action

At the Seige of Tripoli, August 3, 1804

Placed by the City of Gloucester - 1932

Marker is at the intersection of Western Avenue (Massachusetts Route ...

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Nearby On This Tract of Land Called Mount Vernon

Stood the home of Colonial Patriot

John Wallace, Junior

February 15, 1755 - May 1811

Founder

of

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania - 1797

The town laid out in 1797 was named Waynesburg until 1831.

The plot included the original "settlement" which came to be

called Wallacetown in honor of John ...

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Milford Korea - Vietnam Monument

[ southeast side ]

“We mourn the fallen,

We grieve for the missing,

We celebrate the return of

Our valiant men and women”

[ northeast side ]

Vietnam

1961 – 1973

[ southwest side ]

Korea

1950 – ...

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John Wallace, Jr.

Laid out the present town in 1797 and named it Waynesburg in honor of General Anthony Wayne. In 1831, name changed to Waynesboro. Stone portion of the Wallace house still stands about 200 yards southeast of here.

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Gettysburg Campaign

Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate troops occupied Waynesboro June 23, 1863. Next day they marched by Mont Alto to Greenwood, or Black Gap, where, June 25, they were ordered by Gen. Ewell to march to York.

Marker is at the intersection ...

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