Jackson Attacks

The Battle of Chancellorsville

"You can go forward then." With those words "Stonewall" Jackson unleashed one of the most famous and successful attacks of the Civil War. On the afternoon of May 2, 1862, Jackson led 30,000 men of his Second ...

François Joseph Paul de Grasse

This statue, a gift from France is placed here, overlooking the waters where Admiral Comte de Grasse successfully engaged the British Fleet on September 5, 1781. The “Battle of the Capes” prevented crucial reinforcements from reaching Cornwallis, thus hastening his ...

Wood Road & Jacques Ridge

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Wood Road and Jacques Ridge

Built in April 1876 by the Quicksilver Mining Company, Wood Road originally served to connect nearby oak woodlands to the mining operations where voracious wood-fueled furnaces processed cinnabar ore into liquid ...

Junction of Earthworks

Maj. Gen. Hiram G. Berry's division formed the front of the Union defense north of the Orange Turnpike on the morning of May 3. Although virtually all of Berry's entrenchments have disappeared, this small segment of works on the right ...

Fort St. James

English:

Simon Fraser and John Stuart established Fort St. James among the Carrier Indians in 1806. Originally a North West Company post, it passed to the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1821. From the beginning an important centre of trade and cooperation ...

General Comte Jean de Rochambeau Memorial

[front, south face:]

Rochambeau

[back, north face:]

"We have been contemporaries

and

fellow labourers

in the cause

of liberty,

and we have lived

together

as brothers should do,

in harmonious friendship,"

Washington to Rochambeau

February 1, 1784

By the ...

The Jesse Owens Track

James Cleveland (Jesse) Owens, 1913-1980, Ohio State University Track and Field Star, Olympic Champion, Ambassador of Sports, Humanitarian, Friend of Youth.

Jesse Owens' incomparable achievements as an Ohio State and Olympic athlete are legendary.

During the Big Ten Championships in 1935, he ...

Stonewall Jackson's Way

Under Special Order 191, Maj. Gen Thomas J. Jackson led Confederate troops from Frederick to capture Harper's Ferry. On Sept. 11, 1862, Jackson's Second Corps moved by this road from its encampment near Boonsborough to cross the Potomac at Williamsport.

Marker ...

Sgt. James Walton

Salem Flying Artillery, C.S.A.

Here at East Hill Cemetery is buried Sgt. James Walton (1838-1875). A gunner in Capt. Charles B. Griffin's Battery (Salem Flying Artillery), Walton fired one of the last artillery shots by Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of ...

Ranger Smith's Jeep Tour

Opened May, 1975

Operating 25 years in the same corner of what was originally called "The Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera", this popular children's jeep ride was manufactured by Intamin AG of Switzerland.

This "Kiddie Merry Hunting" ride cost about $41,000 in 1975.

Fun ...