Champneys' Pink Cluster

In 1802, on his rice plantation in nearby Rantowles,

John Champneys hybridized the first rose in

America. "Champneys' Pink Cluster" was a cross

between the European "Millers' White Musk" rose

(Rosa Moschata) and "Parsons' Pink China" rose

(Old Blush). This ...

Ackerman – Pell House

Built around 1835 in the Greek Revival style, it incorporates parts of a late 18th c. home. John D. Ackerman was a miller and his son, David I., was a blacksmith who built a trip hammer forge on the Saddle ...

Tipton Army Airfield

Fort George G. Meade

Named for Marylander Colonel William D. Tipton, Tipton Army Airfield was constructed in 1960 to replace a smaller airstrip operating since 1938 near the present Post Exchange and Commissary complex.

COL Tipton served in both World Wars. During ...

Peninsula Village Historic District

Listed on the

National Register

of

Historic Places

By the United States

Department of Interior

August 23, 1974

Marker is on Locust Street 0.1 miles south of Main Street (Ohio Route 303), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Tank School and Tank Corps

Fort George G. Meade

When Great Britain introduced tank warfare to the battlefields of World War I, the face of battle changed forever. By providing support to infantry attacks, the usefulness of tanks was proven. For this reason, on January 26, ...

The Appalachian Trail

The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, designated a linear National Park by the 1968 National Trails System Act, is a continuous, marked public footpath extending approximately 2,144 miles from Mount Katahdin, Maine to Springer Mountain, Georgia along the Appalachian Mountain range. ...

Thankful Baptist Church

Thankful Baptist Church was founded on April 26, 1840 under the name “Independent” in an area of Augusta

known as “Pinched Gut”. It was the first daughter church established out of Springfield Baptist Church who emerged from the Silver Bluff ...

Fort Pleasant

Built on lands of Issac Van Meter who took up claim near Old Fields, 1735, and settled there, 1744, in chain of forts which Washington established. For a time it was garrisoned by British regulars. Near it was Battle of ...

Japanese 75mm Field Gun

Model 95 (1935)

Designated for use with the Japanese Cavalry, the Model 95 Field Gun is a horse-drawn gun with split trails, hydropneumatic recoil mechanism and horizontal sliding wedge type breech mechanism. The 75mm gun weighs 2440 pounds and fires a ...

Post Hospital

Fort George G. Meade

When Camp Meade was established in 1917, a detachment of the Medical Department of the Army was one of the first organizations to report for duty. The original hospital occupied a large group of frame buildings in ...