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Marker is on Leonard Wood Drive south of Bundy Street, on the left when traveling south.

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The Post Hospital

In 1904, the U.S. Army built a new Post Hospital at Vancouver Barracks as a part of a nationwide effort to modernize its forces. Unlike the previous one, the hospital was constructed with brick to enhance sanitation and boasted a ...

Eben and Rosaline Peck

Eben and Rosaline Peck erected Madison's first home on this site. April, 1837

Marker can be reached from the intersection of South Webster Street and King Street.

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Firing Steps

Banquetas

After loading their muskets, the soldiers mounted these steps to fire over the parapet at the enemy.

Marker can be reached from South Castillo Drive (State Highway A1A), on the right when traveling north.

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Death of McPherson

The monument in the enclosure was erected by U.S. Army Engineers to mark the site where Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson was killed during the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864.

McPherson rode S. from the Ga. R.R. when he heard ...

McPherson's Last Ride

July 22, 1864. When Gen. McPherson heard the firing to the S.E. while at lunchen (Whiteford Ave. at R.R.), he mounted his horse & sending away most of his staff on various missions, galloped south to this hill.

Here he observed ...

St. Peter's Bastion

Baluarte de San Pedro

During Queen Anne's War (1702) English siege trenches came "within a pistol shot" of this point. English ships blockaded the harbor and 500 soldiers and indians took the town. The Castillo offered the only safety, so 200 ...

Terry's Mill Pond

The flat area S. was the bed of Terry's mill pond - the impounded waters of Sugar Cr. Tom Terry (1823-1861) operated the grist mill that stood 800 yds. downstream. It was burned by Federal troops July 29, 1864 & ...

Philipsburg Manor

Philips Manor was an 18th-century milling, farming and trading complex owned by the Loyalist Philipse family, tenanted by farmers, and operated by enslaved men, women and children.

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

Marker can be reached from the intersection of N Broadway (U.S. ...

11th Corps Headquarters

Army of the Potomac

11th. Corps Headquarters

Major General

Oliver O. Howard

July 1, 2, 3, 4, 1863

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

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