1st Maryland Battalion

Point reached by

First Md

Battalion C.S.A.

July 3rd

1863

Marker is at the intersection of Geary Avenue and Slocum Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Geary Avenue.

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Buccleuch

Built about 1735 and occupied until 1774 by Anthony White whose wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Morris, and whose son was General Anthony White.

Owned and occupied from 1774 by General William Burton of the British Army.

Owned by the Commissioners ...

Defense of Edisto Bridge

Occupying Rifle Pits and manning a small

battery in defense of the Edisto River

Bridge, at this point less than six

hundred Confederates temporarily

halted the advance of the right wing

of the Federal Army commanded by

Gen.W.T. Sherman. On Feb. 12, 1865,

the defenders ...

Battlefield Archaeology

The Battle of Monmouth – 28 June 1778

Where Was Molly Hays during the Battle of Monmouth?

Documents and Archaeology provides clues.

During the Battle, Commander-in-Chief George Washington watched approvingly as Captain Francis Proctor’s artillery company cannonaded the British. Joseph Plumb Martin noted ...

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

In Search of the Nomination for the

Presidency Addressed a Rally in the

Town Hall of Meriden – March 7, 1860

" – and that government of the people,

by the people and for the people,

Shal not ...

Twin Bridges

Two rudimentary bridges were built to cross the Tockhockonetcong (now the Paulinskill) as Jonathan Hampton ordered the construction of the Military Road in 1756. An essential supply line to the frontier fortification in the Delaware Valley, the Military Road was ...

Bishop James Osgood Andrew

James Osgood Andrew was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, on May 5, 1794, about 400 yards N.E. of this marker, the son of Rev. John Andrew and Mary Cosby Andrew. He was licensed to preach in the Ellam Methodist Episcopal ...

Yellow Frame Presbyterian Church

In 1887, bordering "The Great Road" (Rt. 94) where Warren and Sussex Counties meet at an elevation 880 feet, a church and manse were erected as the third location of this Presbyterian congregation, built in the Victorian Queen Anne style ...

Franklin Street Burying Grounds

Reconsecration

of the

Franklin Street

Burying Grounds

The first Jewish

Cemetery in Virginia

Founded 1791

Commemorating

the 300th anniversary

of the first permanent

Jewish settlement

in the United States

This memorial erected by

Congregation Beth Ahabah

Richmond, Virginia

Unveiling April 24, 1955

Rededication services

under auspices

Richmond Tercentenary Committee

of the

Richmond Jewish Community Council

Marker is at the intersection of ...

To The Mormon Battalion

Which, under command of Col. Cooke, in the course of their 2,000 mile infantry march to the Pacific coast, arrived and raised the first American flag in Tucson.

December 16, 1846

Marker is on South 6th Avenue, on the right when traveling ...