Buffalo Soldier Field

This athletic field is named in honor of the men of the Ninth and Tenth U.S. Cavalry Regiments, detachments of which once served at West Point. These Regiments of Horse Cavalry were first created by the Army Reorganization Act ...

Lure of the Chesapeake

Canvasback ducks float quietly on the water

The hunter waits

Flocks of ducks appear in the sky, cup their wings and drop down to the waiting canvasbacks

The hunter's ploy has worked

For it was not real canvasbacks that lured the ducks but ...

First National Sunday School Convention

This site marks the location of the first National Sunday School Convention October 1832 in the Chatham Street Chapel-Theatre.

This 150th anniversary honors the millions of children and youth whose lives have been nurtured by the educational ministry by the ...

In Memory of Citizens Killed / In Memory of Thirteenth Cavalry

Pancho Villa Raid of 1916

[Side A:]

In Memory

Citizens Killed – March 9, 1916

W. A. Davidson • Harry Davis • James T. Dean • Dr. H. M. Hart • Bessie James • C.C. Miller • C.D. Miller • J. J. Moore • ...

Village of Montchanin

Settled at the triangular intersection of three roads in the early 19th century by workers from the nearby DuPont Black Powder Mills, this village consisted initially of only 2.4 acres. The Wilmington and Northern Railroad established tracks through the vicinity ...

Samuel Hartford

Soldier of 1812

When a lad of 14 he went as a substitute for his brother in law that his sister and her 7 little ones might not be deprived of a husband and father’s care.

Served as Private in N. Y. ...

Piedmont First United Methodist Church

Beginning as a Methodist mission in the 1850's, the Piedmont First United Methodist Church was organized in 1867 as the Cross Plains Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by Wilson Johnson and a small band of local Methodist. In 1868 a small ...

Field Hospitals - Second Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Second Corps

The Division Hospitals of the Second Corps were located July 2nd at the Granite School House but were soon removed to near Rock Creek west of the creek and six hundred yards southeast ...

First Presbyterian Church

The First Presbyterian Church of Piedmont was organized March 18, 1890, with seventeen charter members, by Rev. B. F. Bedinger, Presbyterian evangelist. Rev. J. E. McLean was the first minister. First elders were C. W. McMahon and Stephen Ferguson; first ...

Field Hospitals - Twelfth Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Twelfth Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Twelfth Corps were located July 2nd at the Bushman House one hundred and sixty yards east. These hospitals cared for about 1200 wounded and were in operation ...