Tuscaloosa Formation

The sand clay formation here represents the first prominent Coastal Plain deposits laid upon an ancient floor of granites and gneisses. Southward this formation (Tuscaloosa Upper Cretaceous) becomes more and more deeply buried and contains marine beds. These rocks are ...

Lake Solitude and Taylor Falls

Tayor Steelworkers Historic Greenway

The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Lake Solitude and Taylor Falls

With the depletion of natural resources that provided energy to power the adjacent Iron Works, Lake Solitude was constructed by the Taylor Iron and Steel ...

Battle of Kolb's Farm

June 22, 1864

The extension of the right wing of Federal forces S. of the Dallas Rd. threatening to outflank him, Johnston sent Hood’s Corps [CS] from the right (E. of Kennesaw) to this, the extreme left, with directions to stop ...

Fairfield

Marker front:

In 1639 Roger Ludlow and five companions, after serving in the Pequot War, purchased from the Indians a rich and abundant expanse of land which they called by the Indian name "Uncowaye." Shortly thereafter the name "Fairfield" replaced "Uncowaye." ...

Fairfield Revolutionary War Memorial

1775 1783

In everlasting memory

of the Patriots and Soldiers of

Fairfield who served in the War

of the American Revolution

———

Erected by the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

A.D. 1904

Marker is at the intersection of Beach Road and Sunnieholm Drive, on ...

The Destructive Power of the Patapsco

"[Rainfall] nearly all night with a violent gale of wind. This morning the river begins to rise. The rain pours down furiously all day. The river in a freshet, rising all the time... At night the waters very high, threatening ...

Freeport Railroad

1863-1865

In 1863 a ten mile long short line was built from Brighton Station on the Sacramento Valley RR to this here spot. It was called “Freeport” because it avoided the high charges for landing freight and passengers at the Sacramento ...

25th and 75th Ohio Infantry Regiments

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):Ohio Honors

Her brave sons

25th & 75th

Ohio Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division,

11th Corps

This memorial is erected by

the State of Ohio

(Left):After a Severe Battle

In the open fields beyond

Gettysburg on July 1, 1863,

the 11th Corps withdrew to

Cemetery Hill and at dark

on ...

The Country’s Roll of Honor

Their names are imperishably inscribed

upon the country’s Roll of Honor.

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Within this sacred ground rest the remains of a number of soldiers, of whom there is a record of forty-eight, all enrolled in Washington’s Army during the Revolutionary War, whose achievements ...

134th New York Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):134th

New York

Infantry,

1st Brigade,

2nd Division,

2nd Division,

11th Corps.

(Back):July 1st 1863

This Regiment

was engaged about

one quarter mile

east of Gettysburg

near York Road

July 2d and 3d

held this position

Casualties;

Killed 42,

Wounded 151,

Missing 59.

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling ...