Swampscott Vietnam Veterans Honor Roll

1961 1975

Abram, Francis A., Jr. • Abram, James A. • Ackerman, David C. • Allison, George K. • Anderson, Ty J. • Anthony, William S. • Antoniello, Mathew, Jr. • Armstrong, James W. • Arsenault, Dennis P. • Bagnell, Dana ...

Pocahontas

The Revolutionary War

Positions in the Battle of Petersburg

On 25 April 1781, this part of the community of Pocahontas served as the rear guard staging area for American Major General Frederick von Steuben’s Virginia militia in their defense of Petersburg against ...

Lincoln Speech Memorial

(Monument's Right Side Plaque):

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil ...

Clifton A. F. Sprague, Vice Admiral, USN

Born 8 January 1896 - Died 11 April 1955

[Front]:

Awards

Navy Cross for the 25 October 1944 action off Samar. Admiral Sprague was aboard the escort carrier, USS Fanshaw Bay during this engagement.

Legion of Merit Medal for his command of the USS ...

Cannon Replica Project

These Napoleon 12-Poind Light Field Cannons are replicas created by Mountain View High School students during the 1990 to 1992 school years in Vancouver, Washington. They are the property of the City of Vancouver, which supplied materials. This community project ...

Union Artillery 12 Pound Howitzers

At the time of the Battle of Fort Pillow, these two northern embrasures or openings in the parapet were fortified with 12 pound howitzers. This type of artillery was extremely effective in hilly country such as is found around Fort ...

Chief Pontiac

Birthplace

and

Park

of Chief

Pontiac

1712 --- 1769

Marker is on East River Drive 0.3 miles east of North Clinton Street (Ohio Route 15).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Captain George Vancouver Monument

Boat of Discovery

[Panel 1]:Captain George Vancouver Monument

October 31, 1792

Lt. William Broughton

Named This Area

For His Captain

Dedicated

October 31, 1992

[Panel 2]:Boat of Discovery

“…The real story of George Vancouver and other explorers of the Pacific Northwest is not in one great voyage. It is ...

Captain George Vancouver Monument Plaza

1792 Discovery

[Panel 1]:

Capt. George Vancouver, from King’s Lynn, England, at age 35 and with orders from the British Admiralty to explore and chart the West Coast of America, charted hundreds of miles of coast line from California to Alaska. His ...

The Last Battle of the French and Indian War and Public Memory

[Top half of Marker]

Erected 1898 by the Piqua Chapter,

of the Daughters of the American

Revolution in commemoration of

the last Battle of the French and

Indian War, fought near this spot,

1763.

[Bottom half of Marker]

This monument ...