Saratoga Monument Association

This monument was erected under the auspices of the Saratoga Monument Association to commemorate the surrender of General Burgoyne to General Gates on the17th of October, 1777.

The first presidents of the association, were Hamilton Fish and Horatio Seymour. The ...

Battle of Petersburg

25 April 1781

On 25 Apr. 1781, American Brig. Gen. Peter Muhlenberg’s Virginia militia fell back west from Blandford, under heavy British fire, to a prepared line of defense here along the crest of this hill. This second line of Virginia ...

Battle of Petersburg

25 April 1781

On 25 Apr. 1781, American Brig. Gen. Peter Muhlenberg formed his first line of 500 Virginia militia here to meet the British. The line extended along East Street from the Appomattox River to present-day Washington Street and consisted ...

“Lest We Forget That Peace Has a Price”

In memorial to our Marines of the Multi-National Peacekeeping Force, Lebanon – 1983.

West Virginia — Semper Fidelis

Cpl. Mecot Camara, Hinton • Lcpl. Russell Cyzick, Star City • HM2 Marion E. Kees, Martinsburg • Lcpl. David Cosner, Elkins • Cpl. Timothy ...

Battle of Petersburg

25 April 1781

To the west stood East Hill (Bollingbrook), home of the widow Mary Marshall Tabb Bolling. After the 25 Apr. 1781 Battle of Petersburg, British Maj. Gen. William Phillips and Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold located their headquarters at the ...

Skirmish at Dinkins' Mill

(Front text)

Following the battle of Boykin’s Mill on April 18, 1865, Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter advanced south to Middleton’s Depot, on the Wilmington & Manchester R.R. below Stateburg. Here, on April 19, they attacked ...

The 16th & 23d Corps March to Decatur

July 19, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., having camped on N. Fork Peachtree Cr., moved S. on old Shallowford Rd. to this point where it joined Schofield's 23d, which had marched S.E. from Goodwin's Crossing (Brookhaven), along roads now designated Briarwood ...

Dr. Chapmon Powell’s “Medicine House” and W.J. Houston Plantatio

About 1826, Dr. Chapmon Powell erected a log cabin beside the Shallowford Trail near this site. His Indian patients called it the “Medicine House.” His cabin had been relocated onto this site by 1863 when Powell’s son-in-law, Washington Jackson Houston ...

Powell Patent

1664

This marks the northwest

point of this early grant.

Marker is on 9J, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Resting Place of Seven Signers of the Declaration of Independenc

In the Burial Ground of this Church

rest the remains of Seven Signers of the

Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin             Benjamin Rush MD

Obit 1796                     ...