Mrs. E. Trabucco Store

Louis Trabucco was born in 1821 and emigrated from Italy in 1847. He opened his first store in Bear Valley in 1856. After becoming successful in his Mariposa mining and business ventures he returned to Italy and married 19 year ...

The Battle of Perryville

The Battle of Perryville was fought on October 8, 1862. It was the climax of a campaign that lasted almost two months and affected the entire state of Kentucky. The campaign started when Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederate army entered Kentucky ...

Second Brigade

Second Division - Eleventh Corps

Army of the Potomac

Eleventh Corps Second Brigade

Second Brigade

Col. Orland Smith

33d. Massachusetts 138th. New York

55th. 73. Ohio Infantry

July 1 Arrived 2 p.m. and went into position on Cemetery Hill in line behind stone walls along Emmitsburg and ...

Crown Forces Baggage Park

When the order came to retreat, the civilian teamsters contracted by the British – many from Canada – began harnessing teams of horses and yoking pairs of bawling oxen in the Baggage Park on the flat directly below you. Wagons ...

Washington – Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

Housatonic Crossing

French General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and thousands of French ground and naval forces arrived in Newport in July of 1780 to assist the Americans in the War for Independence. After wintering in Newport, Rochambeau’s ...

Turner's, Howell's Baker's & Sandtown Ferries

This, the old Sandtown Road was the route of McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee [US], south to the Mitchell house, July 5, 1864.

From Mitchell’s, an old road ran east to the Chattahoochee River at Turner’s Ferry, most of its ...

Bayonets Are For Digging

This covered-way, constructed after June 3, connected the main Confederate line behind you to the low ground in front. A South Carolinian stationed near here recalled:

To guard against the shells that were continually dropping in our midst or outside of ...

Confederate Breastworks

This remarkably preserved stretch of the main Confederate line saw little action. Although the land here was much less wooded in 1864, its occupants appreciated the partial shelter offered by the low ground. The soldiers took advantage of it to ...

Mt. Kemble-Glen Alpin

1847 Gothic Revival villa,

“Mount Kemble,” built for

Henry and Frances Duer

Hoyt on the site of the

house of colonial official

Peter Kemble, reluctant

host to Continental Army.

Renamed “Glen Alpin” by

David H. McAlpin in 1885.

Marker is on Mt. Kemble Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right ...

Battle of Shepherd’s Plantation

On this site was fought the battle of Shepherd's Plantation between Creek Indians and pioneer settlers aided by volunteer soldiers stationed at Forts Ingersol, Jones and McCreary under Major Henry W. Jernigan and Captain Hamilton Garmany.

On a separate plaque ...