Battle of Hanging Rock

About 2.5 miles south is Hanging Rock, where Maj. Davie surprised a British force, Aug. 1, 1780, and killed or wounded most of them. There also, Aug. 6, 1780, Col. Hill, Col. Irwin, and Maj. Davie, all under Gen. Sumter, ...

154th New York State Volunteer Infantry

(front):

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 11th Corps

"The Hardtack Regiment"

Anchor of the Buschbeck Line

Near Dowdall's Tavern

Battle of Chancellorsville

May 2, 1863

(back):

590 present for duty

240 killed, wounded, and captured

Dedicated to the memory of the regiment

by its descendants

May 1996

Marker is on Germanna Highway (State ...

SATAN Tracking Antenna

The primary function of the SATAN tracking antenna was to receive radio signals in the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) range of 136 to 137 megahertz from orbiting unmanned spacecraft.

In service from 1964 until 1979 the SATAN Antenna supported the ...

Menomineeville, Seat of Justice

In 1823, James Doty...

was appointed by President Monroe as a district judge for the northern and western Michigan Territory, which included what is now the state of Wisconsin. Doty set up the region's new court in an empty log building.

Three ...

Battle of Bennington

Second Engagement

At this point occurred the defeat of Colonel

Breyman, who commanded a force of 600 men sent

by General Burgoyne to reinforce Colonel Baum.

Colonel Seth Warner and his regiment of Vermont

Rangers "Green Mountain Boys" distinguished

themselves ...

Santa Anna's Surrender Ratified

Gen. Vicente Filasola, Second in Command of Mexican armies in Texas War for Independence, fled from area of his nation's defeat at San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. Filasola's aim was to go to Mexico with his army.

After he had ...

Battle of Bennington

First Engagement

General John Stark with New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts Militia defeated and captured an expeditionary force sent by General Burgoyne and commanded by Colonel Baum. This was one of the first decisive victories in the War of the Revolution.

Marker ...

El Senator Mine

(El Senador Mine)

This mine was opened in 1863 and worked intermittently until March 1926. In 1915 a reduction plant, which included the first Herreschoff furnace and electric dust collector ever used in the recovery of quicksilver, was erected. The mine ...

Buford Battleground

[Front]

In order that all may continue to share the sentiments of that group of patriotic citizens of Lancaster County who erected a monument here on June 2, 1860 the inscriptions of this memorial are the same as those on ...

Tidewater Connection Locks

In 1854 the Tidewater Connection Locks linked the canal basin to the Jame River tidewater below Richmond. The system contained five granite locks, each measuring 15 x 100 feet. This resulted in a flight of water stairs that lowered boats ...