Forty & Eight Boxcar

This car is one of 49 given to the American people by the citizens of France in thanks for aid rendered during and after World War II. Utilized for hauling military cargo during two world wars, they were known for ...

Seaford Hundred

Detached from Northwest Fork Hundred

by Act of General Assembly, 1869.

Northwest Fork Hundred, originally

claimed by Maryland, then embraced

all territory west of Northwest Fork.

Delaware obtained undisputed title in

1775, upon confirmation of Mason and

Dixon Line.

Marker is ...

Capture of Fort Charlotte

July 12, 1775

Less than a mile from this point, close to the Georgia shoreline of Lake Thurmond, lays the remains of Fort Charlotte now 50 feet under water. Named after the wife of King George III, Fort Charlotte was a ...

First Presbyterian Church

Ohio Historical Marker

This congregation was organized January 9, 1820 by 11 charter members. In 1837 the structure was completed on land reserved for religious purposes on the first Maumee plat. A British gun battery stood on the site in ...

Fort Hill

Archaeological study of the flat-top hill across the valley revealed two palisaded Indian villages with extensive house and burial remains, all dating from the Discovery Period.

Marker is on Kingwood Road (Pennsylvania Route 281) 1.5 miles east of Humbert Road, on ...

Edward Redfield

Landscape painter Edward Willis Redfield was born near Bridgeville, Delaware on December 19, 1869. After studying in Philadelphia and Paris he moved to Buck’s County, Pennsylvania, where he became leader of a colony of artists called the New Hope Impressionists. ...

Commander in Chief’s Guards

An Elite Security Force

Always present, Washington’s guard occupied huts here. This special detachment was created to protect the Commander in Chief, his official family, and his equipment, supplies, and papers. Washington required that each life guard, as they called themselves, ...

William Findley

Near the western end of Latrobe was the log house of this antifederalist Congressman, who lived modestly alongside his constituents. A shaper of public opinion in western Pennsylvania, he sympathized with the Whiskey Rebellion but, as tempers mounted in late ...

Site of the Marquee

On this spot General Washington erected his campaign tent (marquee) when he entered Valley Forge December 19, 1777. He occupied this tent until December 24, 1777, when he moved his headquarters to the Potts House at the junction of Valley ...

Rear Admiral Fran McKee

In 1976, Fran McKee became the first woman line officer promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy. A wide range of opportunities for women in the Navy is a result of her personal example and her work on the ...