Chippawa Battlefield Panel 4

Battle on the Plain

British General Riall was convinced that the greater part of Brown's army was still surrounding Fort Erie. He did not know the Fort had surrendered and he was facing the entire U.S. division. Still, the number of ...

Chippawa Battlefield Panel 3

Advance to Contact

Major General Phineas Riall, the British commander, had repaired the bridge over the Chippawa and ordered his own Regular light infantry, the local Canadians of the 2nd Lincoln Militia and a force of Native Warriors, to clear out ...

Chippawa Battlefield Panel 2

Opening Strikes

At dawn 5 July 1814, parties of Canadian-Militia and British allied Native Warriors scouted the American camp. They began sniping from the bushes on the north side of Street's Creek and this continued throughout the morning. Around noon, General ...

Chippawa Battlefield Panel 1

Background to a Battle

On these fields and the surrounding woods 4,000 American, British, Canadian and Native forces fought the first major battle of the Niagara campaign of 1814. When the last shots died away on Samuel Street's farm, more than ...

Friedensstadt

This stone marks the site of the former Moravian Indian village of Languntoutenunk, or Friedensstadt, or city of Peace. Settled by the Moravian Indians in the spring of 1778. The majority of the members of this Mission had formerly belonged ...

Battle of Chippawa

[Text on the West Side]:

Battle of Chippawa

5 July 1814

In memory of all those who fought on this ground,

many of whom are buried nearby,

and to commemorate the peace that has prevailed

between Canada and the United States

since that time.

This ...

Bank of Chester County

National Register Of Historic Places

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Marker is on North High Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Paoli Massacre

Site of Paoli Massacre

MALVERN

Sept. 20, 1777

Marker is at the intersection of S. Warren Road and Paoli Pike, on the right when traveling north on S. Warren Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Normanskill

Fought north of the creek

Schenectady Militia with

40 Rhode Island troops

dispersed large group of

Tories on August 11, 1777

Marker is on New York Route 146 0.1 miles east of Ostrander Road, on the right when traveling ...

Thomas Anderson Veblen and Kari Bunde Veblen Farmstead / History

Thomas Anderson Veblen and

Kari Bunde Veblen Farmstead

From 1866 to 1893 this farmstead was the home of the Veblen family one of the most prominent Norwegian immigrant families of the nineteenth century.

The most distinguishing trait of the Veblen family was its ...