Site of the Birth Place of Rev. Anthony Foucher

The first American Priest

of the West.

July 22, 1741 —— June 12, 1812

Marker is on South River Road west of County Route 300 W, on the left when traveling west.

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The Battle of Tippecanoe

November 7, 1811

Here, on this site, military forces commanded by General William Henry Harrison, engaged in battle with the Indians of the Wabash country led by The Prophet, brother of the great Indian leader, Tecumseh. This battle destroyed forever the ...

Elizabeth Main Street

A visit to Elizabeth’s Main Street reveals some older building still used for day-to-day business, but it might surprise you to learn that many of these stores have been features of the Elizabeth scene for far more than a century!

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The Battle of Gaines’ Mill - 1862

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

All the visible remains along the trail date from the June 1864, Battle of Cold Harbor, but this ground figured prominently in the Seven Days campaign of 1862 as well.

On June 27, 1862, General Thomas ...

Hillsboro Service Memorial

World War - I

Orel A. Smith, Born 1898, 32nd Co. 6th Marine Vol., Killed In Action, Nov. 2, 1918 • Lieut. W. E. G. Cooper, Born March 29, 1888, Killed In Action at Chateau Thierry, July 20, 1918 • Claude ...

Federal Artillery Battery

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

Under the cover of night, Union artillerists left their horses at the foot of the hill behind you and dragged six rifled cannon up the slope by hand. The guns were then placed side by ...

The Bloody Eighth

Cold Harbor Battlefield Park Walking Trail

The 8th New York Heavy Artillery joined the Army of the Potomac midway through the Overland Campaign in an effort to offset the Federal casualties suffered at the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. The ...

Loomis Observatory

Elias Loomis and Charles Augustus Young worked in this Observatory, built in 1838, the third to be erected in the United States, the second oldest standing (1926).

Marker is on College Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Preparation For Battle

On June 2, 1864, the night before the grand assault at Cold Harbor, Union staff officers passed among the battle lines issuing orders. One officer, Major Horace Porter, was in this vicinity when he witnessed a scene of foreboding. Porter ...

Battle of Cross Keys

Slaughter of the 8th New York Infantry

On June 8, 1862, during the Battle of Cross keys, Gen. Isaac R. Trimble’s Confederate brigade of a little more than 1,500 men occupied this line, a masked position behind a split-rail fence in ...