Silver Spring in the Civil War

On July 11-12, 1864, General Jubal Early's 20,000 Confederate troops marched down Georgia Avenue (formerly Seventh Street Turnpike), in their attack on Fort Stevens in the District of Columbia (1). Francis Preston Blair's vacant home (2) "Silver Spring" (currently the ...

The Pennsylvania Military Museum / 28th Infantry Division Shrine

(Left Wing):

The Pennsylvania Military Museum

The Pennsylvania Military Museum honors the Commonwealth's military men and women past and present. It preserves the history of their significant service to the state and the nation through exhibits, programs, and military commemorative events.

The museum ...

Federal Grain Inspection Service

United States Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

Federal Grain Inspection ServiceDuring December 1977, a series of devastating grain elevator explosions resulted in the death of thirteen USDA employees working for the Federal Grain Inspection Service. On this ...

Rockville Baptist Church and Cemetery

In 1823, the deacons of the Bethel Baptist Church church acquired a half-acre lot at this site to erect a church and provide a burial ground. The original church was replaced in 1864, but a half century later, the Baptists ...

Good Hope Church

Oldest Presbyterian Church

in continuous existence

in Anderson County.

Organized in 1789.

First pastor, Rev. John Simpson.

Congregation worshipped at three

sites nears Generostee Creek,

three miles west of Iva.

Old cemetery at third site.

Sanctuary built in Iva in 1909,

200 yards west of marker.

Marker is on Lowndesville Highway ...

Jordan's Point

Weyanoke Indians, part of the Powhatan Chiefdom, occupied Jordan's Point, around two miles north on the James River, when English colonists arrived in 1607. There, about 1620, Samuel Jordan settled; the place was called Jordan's Journey. By 1625, his widow ...

Prettyman House

104 West Jefferson Street

For many African Americans emancipation from slavery meant transitioning from a household slave to a paid domestic servant.

The Johnson-Prettyman family lived in this 1841 house for five generations. During their ownership they transitioned from owning slaves to ...

History at Prince George Courthouse

Lord Cornwallis, going toward the James in pursuit of Lafayette, passed here, May 24, 1781. A part of Grant's army passed here on the way to Petersburg, June, 1864. The place was occupied by Union troops in 1864-65.

Marker is at ...

Site of St. Joseph's College

On this site St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first U.S. native to be canonized, founded an academy for girls in 1809. A high school was later added and in 1902 St. Joseph's College was chartered as a three year institution ...

World War I Veterans Memorial Park

Harrison Park

World War I

Veterans Memorial Park

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Dedicated May 30, 1919

by

The Town of Wallingford

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Re-Dedicated

November 10, 1991

by

Boy Scout Troop 2

and

Town Veteran Organizations

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Cedar Lane and Kovacs Place, on the left when traveling east.

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