Last Confederate Bivouac

General Bradley T. Johnson

of the

Confederate Army

encamped 20 rods west

of this marker at

the Patterson home

July 31, 1864

after the burning of

Chambersburg

This was the last

Confederate bivouac

north of the

Mason and Dixon line.

Dedicated by

the Pittsburgh Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Gunnar Wennerberg

Swedish Poet, Composer, Educator and Statesman

[In Swedish and English, English version follows]:

Oh God, who rulest fate of nations,

Almighty thou in every land;

Who holdest life and death’s privations.

Within the hollow of thy hand,

Whatever punishment thou wieldest

For Svea’s ...

While the Long Roll Was Beating

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

I never had such emotions as while the long roll was beating...It was not fear, it was not anxiety or concern of the fate of those who were so soon to fall but it was a ...

A Bloody Contest

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Any officer or soldiers who flies before the enemy-shall suffer death.

With these harsh words, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson marched his soldiers 52 miles from the Coosa River to Horseshoe Bend and a bloody contest with the ...

New Brunswick Inn Site

Under the rooftree of the Inn

which occupied this site

General Washington tarried

when in New Brunswick

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On the adjoining square

upon the arrival of the express rider

the Declaration of Independence

was acclaimed by all loyal citizens

on July 9, 1776

New Brunswick was the third town

in which ...

Sunbury

Home of Many Famous Persons

Many famous persons lived in the town of Sunbury. Among them was Dr. Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was also the home of Richard Howley and Nathan Brownson, later governors of Georgia; ...

Rhinelander Building

These five Greek Revival columns were retained from the original facade of the 19th century Rhinelander Building, which formerly stood on this site.

Marker can be reached from Madison Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bahia Espiritu Santo Mission

Menendez, Spanish Governor of Florida, after building fort at St. Augustine (1565) came to this site in 1567 and persuaded the Indian Chief Tocobago and his 1500 braves who lived here, to accept Christianity. Menendez erected a blockhouse for ...

Mohegan Bluffs

Elevation 163 Ft.

1590 A war party of 40 Mohegan Indians

was driven over these bluffs by

Block Island Indians - The Manisseans.

Along this shore many

vessels were wrecked

S. Ann Hope • S.S. Leyden

Mars • Spartan

John Davis • Munago

S.S. Meteor • Lightburne

Luckenbach • Sch. ...

Oroville Carnegie Library

Built 1912

has been placed on

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

In 1911, Andrew Carnegie, Scottish industrialist, businessman, and major philanthropist, endowed upon City of Oroville $10,000 for the construction of a public library building. The building was ...