Petticoat Bridge Skirmish

December 23, 1776

On orders from General Washington to pull Hessian troops southward from positions of support near Trenton, 600 Americans, stationed at Mount Holly under Colonel Samuel Griffin, attacked a Hessian outpost here on December 21. When the 3,000 Hessians ...

Stratford World War II Memorial

World War II

1941 – 1945

[ Inside right cloumn ]

Dedicated to all the

Brave men and

women from the

town of stratford

Who served with

Honor in

World War II

[ Inside left cloumn ]

“I pray that our heavenly father may ...

Balcones Fault Aids Colonization of Texas

Curving through the center of Texas from Hill County south and west to Uvalde County is the rugged escarpment-fault called Balcones. The abundance of natural resources associated with this geologic formation affected the pattern of colonization in Texas. The numerous ...

To the Confederate Dead of Gloucester

Erected by their surviving comrades and friends.

Plant the fair column o'er the vacant grave, a soldier;s honors let a soldier have.

1889

Marker can be reached from Gloucester Courthouse Grounds.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Battle of Iron Works Hill

December 23, 1776

A decisive skirmish in the

Revolutionary War.

Colonel Samuel Griffin’s troops were entrenched at this site. They decoyed Colonel (Count) Kurt von Donop’s Hessian soldiers away from Bordentown thus reducing the enemy forces defending Trenton and assuring victory by General ...

Market Square (Marktplatz)

This Square, originally a two-block area which included what is now called the Courthouse Square, has been at the center of Fredericksburg since the city's founding in 1846. The area was still heavily forested when the town's Vereins Kirche was ...

A Renowned Piscator

Dr. James A. Henshall, 1836-1925, author Book of the Black Bass and others, brought fame to Kentucky's South Licking, Elkhorn, and Stoner streams. He came here to practice medicine. During Civil War healed wounds for men in Blue and Gray. ...

First Congregational Church

On January 11, 1860, eight years before Saugatuck was incorporated as a village, a council of area Congregational leaders met in the Pine Grove schoolhouse and organized a church. During the summer the congregation built a church on this site, ...

1st and 2nd Battle of Cynthiana

(Front):1st Battle of CynthianaDuring CSA Col. John H. Morgan’s 1st KY Raid, on July 17, 1862, 875 CSA hit town via the Georgetown Pike. 350 US troops & Home Guard defended town from houses. Morgan attacked across Licking River and ...

Austin State Hospital

While Texas was a frontier state and psychiatry a pioneer venture, the Texas Legislature in 1856 created this hospital for the mentally ill; in 1925, named Austin State Hospital.

Oldest Texas mental hospital.

Construction began in 1857. The institution, then housed in ...