Concord Fight

On the morning of April nineteenth, 1775, while the British held this bridge, the minute-men and militia of Concord and neighboring towns gathered on the hill across the river. There the Concord Adjutant, Joseph Hosmer, demanded, “Will you let them ...

Battle of Clapp's Mill

Battle of Clapp's Mill

On March 2, 1781, the American light troops under Colonel Otho Holland Williams of Maryland and Lieutenant Colonel Henry "Lighthouse Harry" Lee of Virginia engaged the British light troops near Clapp's Mill on Beaver Creek. ...

Grave of British Soldiers

They came three thousand miles and died

to keep the past upon its throne.

Unheard beyond the ocean tide,

their English mother made her moan.

April 19, 1775

Marker is on Monument Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Army of the West

In 1845 General Kearney's

Army of the West

Guided by Kit Carson

followed the Gila River from

New Mexico to the occupation

of California in the Mexican

War, thus opening the

southern snowfree route to

the Pacific Coast.

Marker is on U.S. 70 at milepost 347, on the left ...

Fortified Settlement

About 800 feet south of this point, on the south bank of the Muskingum River is the site of the

Fortified Settlement

Erected in April, 1799, by Nicholas Coburn, Robert Allison, Nathan Kinney, William Davis and their families, and Oliver Dodge, Daniel ...

Battle of Cooch's Bridge

American light infantry and cavalry under General William Maxwell encountered advance guard of British and Hessian troops under Generals Howe, Cornwallis and Knyphausen in this vicinity September 3, 1777. American troops were expert marksmen drafted by General Washington from the ...

Outer Fortifications

The Exterior Line of Richmond's Civil War defenses crossed Brook Road near here. Occasional Union cavalry raids threatened from the north, making this portion of the city's elaborate earthen defenses especially significant. Union troops briefly captured this line on three ...

Architectural History of the Maryland Agricultural College

The College Park Campus began on this hilltop. In 1856, Charles Benedict Calvert of Riversdale gave 420 acres for the founding of Maryland Agricultural College. The original College building was the Barracks, a beautiful six-story gothic structure completed in 1859 ...

Municipal Ferry Terminal

City of New York   Borough of Manhattan

Erected 1908-1909

by the

Department of Docks & Ferries

during the administration of

George B. McClellan

Mayor

Herman A. Metz   Comptroller

Allen N. Spooner

Commissioner

Denis A. Judge   Deputy Commissioner

Field for Flight

"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!!"

Orville Wright, June 7, 1903

Marker can be reached from Wright Brothers National Monument Road.

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