44th National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic

From September 19 to 24 1910, about 45 years after the last shot of the Civil War was fired, the 44th National Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Encampment(convention) was held in Atlantic City. The G.A.R., a Union (Northern) Civil ...

Battle of Harpers Ferry / Jackson Arrives

(Upper Panel): Battle of Harpers Ferry

Invasion rocked the United States during the second year of the American Civil War. In September 1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee launched his army into Maryland - the North. Lee's first target became ...

490th Bombardment Group

Dedicated

to the

officers and men

of the

490th Bombardment Group

who were

Killed in Action

Killed in Line of Duty

Missing in Action

848 B.S. • 849 B.S.

850 B.S. • 851 B.S.

and All Service Units

Their Sacrifice Was

Not in Vain

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Baird's Division, Palmer's Corps

Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird.

Baird's Division, Palmer's Corps

Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird.

Nov. 25, 1863, 5 P.M.

1st Brigade, Brig. Gen. John B. Turchin.

2nd Brigade, Col. Ferdinand Van Derveer.

3rd Brigade, Col. E. H. Phelps.

3rd Brigade, Col. William H. Hayes

On the 23rg of November this ...

384th Bomb Group (H)

In Memoriam

384th Bomb Group (H)

U.S. 8th Air Force

1942 - 1946

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Battle of Harpers Ferry

Invasion rocked the United States during the second year of the American Civil War. In September 1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee launched his army into Maryland - the North. Lee's first target became Harpers Ferry. He ordered "Stonewall" Jackson ...

Built Here In Old Sharon

Built here in Old Sharon were covered keel boats for a proposed expedition by Aaron Burr to annex the American southwest from Spanish America. Suspicions were aroused against him and he was tried for treason but was acquitted.

Marker is at ...

Edmundsbury

A brick Chapel of Ease for St. Bartholomew's Parish was built here in 1785 in a town laid out in 1740 and named for Landgrave Edmund Bellinger. The vestry reported the chapel unfit for use in 1786, and in 1810 ...

Cahaba Project

"Slagheap Village"

A total of 243 houses and 44 duplex units were constructed from 1936 - 1938 at an overall cost of $2,661,981.26. Cahaba residents rented from the government until 1947, when the houses and duplexes were sold to individuals at ...

Zabriskie-Christie House

Built 1818 by Garret H. Zabriskie on land his father Henry purchased in the 18th century. Garret ‘s farm consisted of 219 acres. It began on Schraalenburg Road and ran westward for one mile. Later owned by son John G. ...