Monmouth Battlefield

Has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1966

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The Great Raid

In late April 1863, the Confederates launched a major raid from Rockingham County into West Virginia. A primary goal of the raid was the destruction of the Cheat River Bridge of the B&O Railroad near the Northwestern Turnpike crossing the ...

Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson 1824-1863

Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is best known for his leadership of Confederate troops during the American Civil War, and especially for his celebrated Valley Campaign of 1862.

Thomas Jackson was a country boy from (West) Virginia who became a graduate of ...

Images of Death

July 2, 1863 - Second Day

"It was now near nightfall, and the operations of the day were over. ...I commenced the melancholy task of looking up my numerous dead and wounded. It was a sad list."

Brig. Gen. J.B. Kershaw, C.S.A.

Kershaw's ...

Phantom Formation Is Rock Solid In Corridor

Clark Fork Corridor: The Land

Imagine a rock so old and so deep, that in some places, the bottom has never been found! The mountains you have been driving through are made up of such a rock—the Prichard Formation. Dating back ...

South Gate of Stockade

Located at centre of

present State Street in east line

of stockade, which extended north,

through a point nine feet west

of northeast corner of present

State and Ferry Streets.

Watch house was located southwest

of, and near this gate.

Assault during massacre of

February 8-9, 1690, was ...

Native People Sustained Through Many Millennia

Clark Fork Corridor: The People

Native people hunted this area 9,000 years ago for bighorn sheep, elk and long-horned bison. Making “seasonal rounds” to specific locations, they maintained a comfortable lifeway by hunting, fishing and harvesting native plants.

Euro-Americans arrived around 1810. ...

A Station on the Underground Railroad

Tradition says Eliza Harris of Uncle Tom's cabin fame rested here in her flight to Canada

Marker is on Indiana Route 1 0.1 miles north of Balbec Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Port Watson

Port Watson

Founded by Elkanah Watson

About 1805. Mills, Brewery

Rope Walk. Sent Arks, Rafts

Cargoes to Penna. Absorbed

By Cortland in 1867

Marker is on Port Watson Street (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling west.

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Mount Arie (Mount Ararat) Missionary Baptist Church

Bartlett was a small farming community in 1898. Black American laborers arrived each fall for the cotton harvest. Thomas Sanders and Nelson Secret and their families called the Reverend F. E. Garrett of Temple to help them establish Mount Arie ...