Methodist Church of Asbury

Methodist Historic Site

The Methodist Church of Asbury, New Jersey, by official action of the Northern New Jersey annual Conference of the Methodist Church, is designated a Methodist Historic Site in recognition of the participation of Bishop Francis Asbury in laying ...

Boone County REMC

The Boone County REMC built Indiana's first electric cooperative line to the Clark Woody farm 5 miles west of this site with funds borrowed from the Rural Electrification Administration, July 22, 1935.

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Major James Gibbon

Here stood the home of

Major James Gibbon

1750 + 1835

A soldier of the Revolution

He led the forlorn hope against

Stony Point for which he received

through Congress the thanks of

a grateful Country

Marker is at the intersection of North 5th Street and Main Street ...

Bank of America

The First National Bank Building was designed by E.L. Norberg and built by G.H. Fields & Co. in 1921.

In January 1927, the bank was purchased by Liberty Bank of San Francisco, which then merged with Bank of America Los Angeles ...

Shays Rebellion

Last Battle

of

Shays

Rebellion

was here

Feb. 27,

1787.

Marker is on Sheffield-Egremont Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Battery Bailey

During the Civil War, fortifications were constructed around the perimeter of Washington to defend the city from attack by the Confederate Army. Paramount to survival under siege was protection of the city's water supply. Forts Sumner and Mansfield and a ...

Guillebeau Home and Family Cemetery

[Front]:

One half mile west is the pioneer home of Andre Guillebeau, a member of the original Huguenot group which settled New Bordeaux in 1764, having fled from the persecution in France under the leadership of the Reverend Jean Louis Gibert. ...

Battle at Stones River

December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's ...

Brigadier General Simon Fraser

Born: Invernesshire, Scotland

Died: Saratoga, New York

This memorial commemorates the death and burial October 8, 1777 of General Simon Fraser, a loyal Highlander, trusted soldier, and respected leader of Burgoyne’s advance corps who was mortally wounded during the ...

John C. West Boyhood Home

This farm was the boyhood home of John Carl West (b. 1922), governor of South Carolina 1971-75. West, a graduate of the Citadel and the University of S.C., served as an intelligence officer in World War II, as state senator ...