Garrity's Alabama Battery

Maj. Alfred R. Courtney's Artillery Battalion.

Garrity's Alabama Battery.

Two 10-pdr. Parrotts: Two 12-pdr. Napoleons.

Maj. Alfred R. Courtney's Artillery Battalion.

Hindman's (Anderson's) Div., Hardee's Corps.

Nov. 25, 1863, 4 p.m.

Capt. James Garrity, Commanding.

1st Lieut. Philip Bond.

1st Lieut. Maynard A. Hassel.

2nd Lieut. Henry F. Carroll.

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The Route of the Hiawatha- Temporary Trestles

Get the Line Open Quickly!

That was the policy of the Milwaukee Road. To do this in 1907 and 1908, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad built numerous sturdy, but short-lived, wood trestles to prepare the new line for track ...

Grand Battery

Fort Montgomery was built to prevent British ships from sailing up the Hudson River. The centerpiece of the fort’s river defenses was its Grand Battery of six 32-pounder cannons. One of the largest cannons of the Revolutionary War, a 32-pounder ...

Annexation of New Mexico

In this plaza

Gen. S. W. Kearney, U.S.A.

proclaimed the peaceable

annexation of New Mexico.

Aug. 19, 1846.

Marker is at the intersection of East Palace Avenue and Old Santa Fe Trail, on the left when traveling west on East Palace Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Treaty of Coleraine

On June 29, 1796, this Treaty was signed ¼ mile south of here near Indian Agent James Seagrove’s home, a trading post and garrison of Federal troops on the St. Marys River. The meeting included representatives of the United States ...

Battle at Point of Rocks

This [railroad] company was met by the most decided and inveterate opposition, on the part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

Philip E. Thomas, President, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

The proximity of railroad tracks by the canal belies the intense ...

The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

Founded May 1, 1848 at Jefferson College by Daniel Webster Crofts

James Elliott

Naaman Fletcher

Ellis Bailey Gregg

John Templeton McCarty

Samuel Beatty Wilson

Fortiter

Fideliter

Feliciter

Marker is on South College Street (U.S. 19) south of East Beau Street (Pennsylvania Route 136), on the left when ...

Encounter at the Fall Line

John Smith's meeting with the Mannahoacks

In August of 1608, Captain John Smith and his crew explored the lower Rappahannock from the Chesapeake Bay to a point just upstream from this location. Soon after landing, the group was attacked by Mannahoack ...

Death of Boone's Son

In this valley, on 10 Oct. 1773, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cherokee Indians killed Daniel Boone's eldest son, James, and five others in their group of eight settlers en route to Kentucky. Separated from Daniel Boone's main party, the men had ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Water Does the Work!

A powerful man-made jet of water blasted the mountainside…

…washing soil and loose rock downslope to fill in the trestle.

By 1911, the Milwaukee Road filled twenty-two temporary wooden trestles between St. Regis, Montana and Avery, Idaho. On this side of the ...