7th New Jersey Volunteers

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 3 Corps

(Text on several facets at the Monument base)7th N.J Vol's July 2, 1863.

Killed 24, Wounded 77, Missing 13, Total 114.

Here Col. Francine Fell.

First position 300 yds. N.E. of this. Heavily engaged there. Moved here to ...

John B. Gordon Hall

This old academy, built in 1836, was in the line of fire during the Battle of Lafayette in the War Between the States. General Braxton Bragg (CS) who had his headquarters in LaFayette, planned the Battle of Chickamauga under an ...

1918 Diamond Jubilee 1993 Camp Benning / Fort Benning

Side 1:

In October 1918, the Infantry School of Arms was established on 80 acres of land near here. Camp Benning, later Fort Benning, was named in honor of Confederate Infantry General Lewis Benning, a Columbus resident. The camp’s first commander ...

Residence of John A. Roebling

A Bicentennial commemorative site

recognizing America’s

200th year of liberty

Residence, built in 1855,

of John A. Roebling

American developer of wire rope and the suspension bridge. Occupied by his family until after his death in 1869. Thereafter company offices until acquired by the county. ...

Captain Joseph Wadsworth

Captain Joseph Wadsworth

Where You Are Standing

On October 31, 1687

Came Sir Edmund Andros to the

meeting house built on this site,

sent by the British Crown

to revoke Connecticut's Charter

and establish the Dominion of New England.

Captain Joseph Wadsworth, determined to

protect Connecticut's liberties,

stealthily ...

Capt. James Olden Paxson

Born 1835 in Trenton.

He was the son of Stacy A. Paxson, a former New Jersey state treasurer. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined Company D, 48th New York Infantry Volunteers (Die-No-Mores), which was made up of men ...

Dr. John Manners

Born April 8, 1786, in Hunterdon County, N.J.

A graduate of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), he studied at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Department (1812) under Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later he studied ...

Martin J. Crawford

(1820-1883)

On the adjoining lot stood the large columned home of Martin Jenkins Crawford, Lawyer, Member of the General Assembly of Georgia, twice Judge of the Superior Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit, Member United States Congress, and of the provisional Confederate ...

John O. Raum

Born 1824, in Mill Hill, now a part of Trenton.

In 1854, he was the first, with Jesse M. Clark and Randolph H. Moore, to publish a city directory that included all the names, addresses and occupations of the people of ...

James Taylor

Born May 16, 1810 in Staffordshire, England.

Taylor came to the United States in 1829 and settled for a time in Jersey City. He worked in the potteries of Troy, Indiana; Orrsville, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio, and East Liverpool, Ohio, to master ...