Ferry Lane

Oct. 1777 Burgoyne’s Brunswick

troops marched through this

lane to Vandenburgh Ferry and

prison camp at Cambridge, Mass.

Marker is at the intersection of Hudson Avenue (U.S. 4) and Ferry Lane, on the left when traveling south on Hudson Avenue.

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Battery I, First Ohio Artillery

Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps

Battery I First Ohio Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Captain Hubert Dilger commanding

July 1 Arrived at Gettysburg before noon and went into position west of the Carlisle Road. Engaged with two Confederate batteries. A Confederate rifled battery having ...

Middle Fort Ditch Construction

Archaeologists cite three reasons why “Fort” Ancient is not a fortification. First, there is no evidence that a large number of people lived inside the earthworks, definitely not the thousands needed to defend such a large area. Second, there are ...

Fifth New York Independent Battery

(Taft's)

(Front):Fifth New York

Independent Battery,

(Taft's)

2d Brigade, Artillery Reserve.

(Back):This battery

held this position from

5 p.m. July 2d to

5th, 1863.

—————

Casualties.

1 killed, 2 wounded.

Marker can be reached from Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling south.

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Battle of Kolb's Farm

June 22, 1864

The 14th Kentucky (2d Division, 23d A.C.,) together with the 123d N. Y. (1st Division, 20th A.C.,) [US] were posted as skirmishers East of the Kolb farmstead.

The stubborn resistance by the 14th Ky., and the 123d N.Y., disrupted ...

Original site of St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

The first Episcopal service in Lufkin was held in 1893 by the Rev. George L. Crocket for the W.G. Barron and R.B. Shearer families. St. Mary's Mission was established in 1895 by the Rev. C.M. Beckwith, but the congregation did ...

Battery G, Fourth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery G Fourth U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. Eugene A. Bancroft Commanding

July 1 Arrived at Gettysburg about 11 a.m. Advanced and took position two sections on Barlow's Knoll the left section detached ...

First Minnesota Volunteers

(Front):

First Minnesota Volunteers

(Left):

"All time is the millenium of their glory."

(Right):

These dead shall not have died in vain.

(Back):The surviving members

First Regiment

Minnesota Infanty.

To the memory

of their late associates

who

"died on the field of honor"

at Gettysburg

July 1863.

Marker can be reached from Taneytown Road (State ...

The Myth of the Mound Builders

Throughout the 19th Century scholars believed there were three great New World civilizations; Inca, Aztec, and Mound Builders. They believed that the American Indians had destroyed the Mound Builders. While early scholars could not accept the idea of Indians constructing ...

History of Rocheport

1804...

Land Before the Town

Prior to its settlement, American Indians used the area we now call Rocheport. The closeness to the river, fertile soils, both salt and freshwater springs, and the protection given by the huge bluffs, rock overhangs and caves ...