Fortress West Point

Elevations in Feet

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49th Pennsylvania Infantry

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps

(Front):

49th Penna. Infantry

3rd Brig. 1st Div. 6th Corps

(Left):

This regiment made a continuous march from Manchester, MD, arriving on the field the afternoon of July 2. Occupied this position in reserve from the morning of the ...

The College of William and Mary in Virginia

A charter was granted by King William and Queen Mary in 1693, by fostering “good arts and sciences,” and by educating the youth in “good letters and manners,” the College has maintained its original mission as “a place of universal ...

Indian School at the College of William & Mary

Using funds from the estate of British scientist Robert Boyle, the College of William & Mary established a school to educate young Indian men in 1697, just four years after the college’s founding. To encourage enrollment, in 1711 Lt. Gov. ...

First Presbyterian Church

Demopolis, Alabama

Side A

Charter members 1839:

John B. Cook (first elder)

Mary S. Cook

Elmira Gaither

Eleanor L. Lucy

Mariah S. Tillinghast

Benajah P. Whitlow

Eliza A. Whitlow

Ira Patterson

Sarah Young

First resident pastor (1846-53);

The Rev. William ...

Free School

1630 - 1930

A free school for Chebacco

parish was opened in an

upper room of this house in

1695 by the appointed master,

Nathaniel Rust, Junior. The town

gave "Six acres of pasture land

for the benefit of the school

and one-quarter acre for

Mr. Rust's house."

Marker is ...

The War Ford

Located .2 mi. east on the Big Pigeon River is a strategic crossing used by the Cherokees. In Aug. 1782, Gen. Charles McDowell of Burke Co., North Carolina, raised an army of five hundred mounted militia from Morgan District to ...

Shipyard of 1668

1630 - 1930

In 1668 the town granted the

adjacent acre of land "To the

inhabitants of Ipswich for a yard

to build vessels and to employ

workmen for that end."

The shipbuilding industry has

continued uninterruptedly in

Essex since that date.

Marker is on Main Street (Massachusetts Route ...

Fenn's Bridge

On Nov. 27, 1864, the Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps) of Gen. Sherman’s army [US] moved from Sandersville toward Louisville on its destructive March to the Sea. The 20th Corps (Williams) and Carlin’s division, 14th Corps (Davis), moved to ...

Donato (Dan) Persico, Chief T/M

Submarine Combat World War II

United States USS Squalus 192

Donato (Dan) Persico, Chief T/M

A Survivor of the Submarine U.S.S. Squalus, which sank on May 23, 1939 off the coast of Portsmouth, NH. A faulty main induction valve ...