British Army Crossing

On the morning of March 2nd, 1779, the British Command of Lieut.-Col. Prevost reached the west bank of the creek here after an all night march from Hudson's Ferry. The bridge had been destroyed by Col. Leonard Marbury's Dragons guarding ...

Ross' Battery

2nd Michigan Light Artillery - Hurlbut's Division

U.S.

Ross' Battery,

2d Michigan Lt. Art., Hurlbut's (4th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, of 6 Parrott Guns, became engaged at south side of this field, about 9 a.m. April 6, 1862. After a short engagement ...

Harriet Ross Tubman

Abolitionist - American Hero

Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery

in 1849. She fled to Philadelphia where, as a

conductor on the Underground Railroad, she

made 19 sorties into the South, liberating

over 300 slaves. Ms. Tubman also served

as a ...

Holy Cross Parish

Father Gabriel Richard received this triangular plot of land by way of a grant from President John Quincy Adams on April 1, 1825. This area, known as Catholic Point, contains, among other buildings a church, a rectory, a convent, the ...

Monroe’s Crossroads

Gen. Kilpatrick's Union cavalry repulsed Gen. Hampton's Confederate cavalry there, March 10, 1865, ten miles north. Now in Fort Bragg area.

Marker is at the intersection of Fayetteville Road (U.S. 401) and Vass Road (County Road 1300), on the right when ...

An Ideal Crossing

The Potomac River is calm and narrow here, making it an ideal location for a ferry crossing. In 1791 Edwards Ferry began to operate here, connecting Maryland farmers to the Goose Creek Canal in Virginia and to the Leesburg markets. ...

Mt. Ephraim Crossroads

Sharpshooters Hold the Line

You are looking at Sugarloaf Mountain, where the running cavalry fight that began in the late afternoon on September 9, 1862, in Barnesville came to a halt. By the next morning, the 7th and 9th Virginia Cavalry ...

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Civil War Nurses

1861–1865. In response to Governor Morton’s call of October 1861, eighty Sisters of the Holy Cross under the leadership of Mother Angela served as military nurses. The Sisters became the forerunners of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1862 ...

Potomac Crossings

Here Lee turned east to the Potomac, crossing at White's Ford, September 6, 1862, in his invasion of Maryland. Jubal A. Early, returning from his Washington raid, crossed the river at White’s Ford, July 14, 1864.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Canadian Cross of Sacrifice

WW I / WW II / Korea

[Panel 1]:

Erected by the Government of Canada in honour of the citizens of the United States who served in the Canadian Army and gave their lives in the Great War, 1914-1918.

[Panel 2]:

In honour of ...