Florida

Settled early 1700’s and originally called Brooklands renamed Florida - from the Latin word, Floridus, which means covered with flowers.

Marker is on North Main St (New York Route 17A) 0.1 miles east of Meadow Road (County Route 25), on ...

Home of John Dickinson

"The Penman of the Revolution." Member of Delaware colonial and state assemblies. Member of Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and Philadelphia Federal Constitutional Convention. Signer for Delaware of Articles of Confederation and Federal Constitution. Governor of Delaware and President of Second ...

Site of Civil War Hospital

This area was on a route used by Federal and Confederate troops as they made maneuvers between the Northern and Southern states. As they traveled thru, their sick and wounded were often left here for treatment. Dr. James Carson Weir, ...

Confederate Enlistment Station

Red Boiling Springs served as a station during the early part of the war between the states. The 30th TN. Infantry regiment was officially organized Oct. 22nd 1861 with the following companies enrolled here.

Co. A, Co. B were men from ...

Old First Parish Burying Ground

1630 - 1930

Original plot given by the first settler, Richard Tarr, who was buried here in 1732. Here lie most of the early settlers and many of the officers and soldiers of the French and Indian, Revolutionary and 1812 Wars.

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Battle of Tompkinsville

First Kentucky Raid

At this site Confederate Colonel John Hunt Morgan began his famous "First Kentucky Raid." His objective was the destruction of the Union force in and around Tompkinsville. Riding through the night, Morgan and his raiders left Celina, Tennessee ...

Dover Light Infantry

Kent County, Delaware Militia

The Light Infantry Company of Dover, a part of the 1st Battalion of Kent County, mustered in on 2 April

1776. Each militia volunteer was uniformly armed,

equipped, and wore a standard military coat of green

faced with red lapels, ...

Fell Leads The Way

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Lincoln’s good friend Jesse Fell had more to do with shaping early events in Livingston County and Pontiac than any other man. He named the county and, in 1837, was instrumental in having the county seat located ...

Danforth Homestead

1630 - 1930

Site of homestead of Captain Jonathan Danforth, pioneer of Billerica and famous surveyor. "He rode

the circuit, chain'd great towns and farms to good behavior; and by well worked stations he fixed their bounds for many generations. "

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Morgan's First Raid

July 9, 1862, Morgan's Raiders, coming from Tenn. on first raid into Ky., attacked force of 9th Pa. Cav. at USA garrison. Raiders captured 30 of retreating enemy and destroyed tents and stores. They took 20 wagons, 50 mules, 40 ...