84 St. Benedict Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

The narrow streets and small building lots of this area mark it as the earliest part of Lincolnville, founded by freed slaves after the Civil War and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. An earlier ...

Sassafras River

Discovered and explored by Capt. John Smith 1607–1609 who named it Tockwough River after the tribe of Indians who inhabited its banks. Tockwough was the original Indian name for Sassafras, a root from which they made a form of bread.

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26th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

(Front):Juy 1, 1863

On Cemetery Hill

July 2 and 3

Effective Strength 516

Killed 46

Wounded 134

Missing 37

26th Reg't.

Wis. Vol. Inf.

(Left):

Chancellorsville

Gettysburg

Wauhatchie

Chatanooga

Atlanta Campaign

To the Sea

Averysboro

Bentonville

(Right):

Mustered in

at Milwaukee

Sept. 17, 1862

Mustered out

June 28, 1865

Killed in Action 128

Died of wounds 56

Died of disease 63

(Back):2d Brig

3d Div

11th Corps

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111 Lincoln Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

Constructed before 1885, this is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Lincolnville, an historic neighborhood founded by freed slaves after the Civil War.

It was home to two generations of the Moran family. Horace Moran was the chef ...

Operation Torch, 1942

The first major amphibious action of World War II was planned near here in the Nansemond Hotel, HDQ. of Amphibious Force U.S. Atlantic fleet. An Army-Navy staff under Adm. H.K. Hewitt met with Gen. G.S. Patton to plan the movement ...

In Support of American Defense

Fort Hunt played a key role in military development and defense. It was used as a major fortification during the Spanish-American War, as a logistical/training support center during peacetime, and as a military installation during WWI and WWII.

By 1917, with ...

Rose Hill

Home of General Thomas Marsh Forman (1758–1845), Aide to General William Alexander, known as Lord Stirling, and a representative in the General Assembly, 1790 and 1800. He served with Major George Armistead, Fort McHenry, 1814. A later owner, William Ward, ...

Stoneman's Raid

On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S Cavalry fought Southern Troops at Howard's Gap. 4 Mi. North, April 22, 1865

Marker is at the intersection of Lynn Road (North Carolina Route 108) and Old Howard Gap Road and ...

Gallberry

Built about 1885. Home of three congressmen, W. H. Kitchin and his sons Wm. W. (governor, 1909-1913) and Claude.

Marker is on Weldon Road (State Road 125) 0.4 miles west of Bryan Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

George S. Haswell III

1946 - 1994

Mariner, master of the batteau Discovery, which departed this harbor August 21, 1992, on the 200th anniversary of Schuyler's Expedition, through her final voyage to Onondaga Lake, July 9th 1994; there he was struck by lightning and died, ...