Puerto de Luna

Established by the early 1860s, Puerto de Luna is one of southeast New Mexico’s oldest permanent settlements. An important farming and ranching center, the town was the Guadalupe County seat from 1891 until 1903. A strong oral tradition maintains that ...

Pine Level Baptist Church

(Text front)

This church, organized on January 6, 1872 with Rev. M.H. Shuman as its first minister, held services in members' homes until a sanctuary, built in 1906

was built on this site between 1876 and 1881. A second sanctuary, ...

Apache Grove

This area served as a resting place for Apache war parties during the raids of the 1880's. Near here Felix B. Knox, a cattleman and gambler, stayed behind to face Indians while his wife, children, and hired man escaped in ...

George Washington Encampment

1779 – 1912

In this field, General George Washington encamped for a night on a march from Newburg to Morristown in 1779 to meet General Lafayette.

With him was an aide, Lieutenant John Kays of Sussex County, a soldier of the American ...

The Frampton Lines

John Edward Frampton House

(Obverse): Remnants of a large earthwork originally more tha 100 yards long are still visible south,west and northwest of the Frampton House. This battery,constructed in 1861~62 by Confederate troops in the Department of S.C. and Ga., was ...

149th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

149th Reg't Pa. Vol's

July 3rd 1863.

2nd Brigade

3rd Division

1st Corps

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Somerset Hills Airport

Site of the Somerset Hills Airport in operation from 1932 - 1981. An important airmail destination during aviation's pioneer days, it also was a U.S. Army Air Force flight instruction facility from 1941 - 1945

Marker is on Lord Stirling Road, ...

Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1938 that, in cases between citizens of different states, federal courts must apply state common law, not federal "general common law." Under Pennsylvania common law, Harry Tompkins of Hughestown lost ...

General Sullivan’s New York Campaign Trail

Routes of the armies of

General John Sullivan

and

General James Clinton

1779

An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggression of the English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward the dominion of the United States

Marker ...

Pere Marquette Historic Site

Designated as a landmark of the City of Milwaukee in 1972, commemorating the place where Father Marquette, French Jesuit missionary, explorer of the Mississippi Valley and Lake Michigan, camped with two companions on November 23-27, 1674.

Marker is at the ...