Pearl Harbor Square

Memorialized By

Bayanihan Club of Union

“Lest We Forget”

December 7, 1941

To honor our service men and women

who sacrificed so much

“The Day Of Infamy”

when 360 Japanese planes descended on Americans

at Pearl Harbor killing 2400 and wounding 1200.

Local Survivors:

John Adams * Edward ...

Patrick Gass

(1771 - 1870)

Enlisted by Meriwether Lewis as a private in the Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1803 - 1806; selected as a Sergeant in August, 1804. His carpentry and soldiering skills earned written commendation from Lewis. Gass later published his ...

Jimmy "Popeye" Thomas

Osceola native Jimmy Thomas split his youth working in cotton fields and playing local juke joints. As a teenager, he joined Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm as lead singer, later performing with the Ike and Tina Turner Review. Settling in ...

Pickett’s Brigade, CSA

“As soon as this advancing brigade reached the summit of the hill it was met by a storm of shot and shell I never saw exceeded except in the famous charge of Pickett’s men at Gettysburg.”

Col. Eppa Hunton

8th Virginia Infantry

“On ...

Mt. Olive Baptist Church

This church was founded in 1882 by 16 charter members, all former slaves or the children of former slaves. It held services in a brush arbor and a cotton gin before building its first sanctuary in 1886 at Main and ...

Philip Berlin

Recognized as the inventor of the first sleeping car in U.S. for use of travelers. The car, "Chambersburg", was operated as early as 1838 between Harrisburg and Chambersburg. He lies buried in graveyard at rear of church.

Marker is at the ...

A Good Place for a Halt

“ . . . Whippany will be a good place for a halt . . . ”

Washington to Rochambeau

On August 27 and 28, 1781, a 5,000-man French Army under General Count Rochambeau encamped on grounds extending northeast from here ...

Thompson's Rifle Battalion: Capt. James Chambers' Company

Recruited in this part of Cumberland (now Franklin) County, Chambers' Company was a unit of the first battalion in the colonies authorized by Congress, in June 1775. From here this company marched about 450 miles to join the siege of ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Invasion & Retreat

After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war north to Pennsylvania. After more than three weeks of marching through the Shenandoah Valley and western Maryland, ...

Smokey Bear Historical Park

This park commemorates Smokey Bear and describes the history and development of this national symbol of forest fire protection. The original Smokey is buried here within sight of the mountain where he was found orphaned by a fire raging in ...