Pat the Avenger Returns Fire

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

In The Great Strike of 1877, a labor dispute between workers and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company set off a popular uprising. The Philadelphia militia shot into an unarmed crowd on July 21st and then took shelter ...

The Menace of the Iron Horse

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

Between 1865 and 1880, the railroad system grew rapidly, tripling in size and connecting urban areas throughout the country. Generally unchecked, railroad tracks cut through the heart of cities, with little concern for the best interests ...

Founder of Presbyterianism

Five miles west was the home of the Rev. Francis Makemie, founder of Presbyterianism in the United States. About 1684, Makemie established in Maryland the first Presbyterian Church. Later he moved to Accomac and married. He died here in 1708.

Marker ...

Battlefield Landmarks - South and West

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"...the enemy is advancing. Every eye could see the legions, an overwhelming resistless tide of an ocean of armed men sweeping upon us!"

1st Lt. Frank A. Haskell, U.S.A.

Aide to Brig. Gen. John Gibbon

You are standing ...

Birthplace of Governor Wise

Here stood the birthplace of Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876), Governor of Virginia (1856-1860) and general in the Confederate States Army. A talented orator and debator in an age of great orators, Wise was elected to six terms in Congress. He ...

The Baptist Church of Beaufort

Established as a mission of the Euhaw Baptist

Church in 1795, Henry Holcombe, pastor.

With Joseph B. Cook as pastor, the church

was chartered as a Baptist church by the

State of South Carolina on January 27,1804.

At the beginning of the Civil War the ...

To The Memory of General Jackson

To The Memory of General Jackson and his Tennessee Volunteers while camped here 1814. He fought the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and discharged his Volunteers.

Marker is on Gen. Jackson Memorial Dr south of Mallory Cir, on the right when traveling ...

First Pennsylvania Cavalry

First Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):First Pennsylvania Cavalry

1 Brigade 2 Division Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

(Right):

Recruited in Montgomery, Berks, Blair, Cumberland, Juniata, Mifflin, Centre, Clinton, Greene, Fayette, Washington and Allegheny Counties

Participated in 66 engagements among which are the following:

Dranesville, Strasburg, Harrisonburg, Cross ...

The Creek Trail of Tears

Approximately one mile due east of this marker, back down the Old Federal Road, called by frontiersmen and Indians the Three Notched Trail or the Three Chopped Way, stood Fort Mitchell, an early 19th century American fort that in 1836 ...

10,000 Board Feet of Logs

This is a typical load of 10,000 board feet of logs, as harvested during the lumber boom, about 1885. The logs were marked and piled at the river's edge. In the spring, they were floated down the Menominee River to ...