Battle of Cold Harbor

Flag of Truce

On 5 June 1864, two hot days after Gen. Robert E. Lee's bloody repulse of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's frontal assault, Federal Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman met Confederate Maj. Thomas J. Wooten nearby on Cold Harbor Road to ...

Chatsworth School

Chatsworth School was built circa 1915 as a one-room schoolhouse for the black children of the Antioch Community. Chatsworth was one of approximately twenty black schools in Henrico County supervised by the visionary educator, Virginia E. Randolph. The Rosenwald Fund ...

Battle of Savage's Station

On 25 June 1862 began the Seven Days' Battles as Gen. Robert E. Lee engaged Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, prompting McClellan to withdraw to the James River. Just north of here at 9:00 A.M. on ...

Company F, 1st United States Sharpshooters

Company F.

First Regiment

United States Sharpshooters

First Sergt. Henry E. Kinsman

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Enlisted 177

Killed and died of wounds 32

Died of disease 12

Wounded 45

Vermont

Marker is on Boonsboro Pike (State Highway 34), on the right when traveling east.

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Barter Theatre

The Barter Theatre building was constructed about 1830 as a church, which was remodeled several times. Among the oldest theaters in America, the building hosted its first performance in 1876. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Robert Porterfield, an ...

Gamble Mansion and Plantation

[Marker Front]:

At the close of the Seminole War in 1842, this frontier was opened to settlement. Major Robert Gamble and other sugar planters soon located along the rich Manatee River valley, and by 1845 a dozen plantations were producing for ...

Historic Bell From St. Dominic's Church at Iowa Hill

Bell was originally erected

there in 1860. It was place

here in October 1988.

Marker is on Oak Street near Auburn Street.

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Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park

Historical Significance

Dug by hand, mostly be Irish immigrants, the 66 mile D & R Canal was completed in 1834. 75 feet wide and 8 feet deep, the canal originally had 14 locks to raise and lower boat traffic.

Seven Days Battles

Savage's Station

Here, facing west, stretched the Union line in the afternoon of June 29, 1862. Brook's brigade was south of the road with Gorman's and Burn's brigades to the north. In a furious conflict Burn's line was broken but was ...

Jones' Battalion, Reserve Artillery

C.S.A.

Jones' Battalion, Reserve Artillery,

Major H.P. Jones, Commanding.

Organization.

Morris (Virginia) Artillery, Orange (Virginia) Artillery,

Turner's (Virginia) Battery, Wimbish's (Virginia) Battery,

(September 17, 1862.)

Jones' artillery battalion occupied the ridge north of this point and was actively engaged early in the day, but was soon withdrawn ...