Major General Alexander Webb

Alexander Stewart Webb

Brevet Major General U.S. Army

1835 - 1911

Commanded 69th, 71st, 72nd, and 106th

Pennsylvania Infantry (Philadelphia

Brigade) which resisted Longstreet's

Assault - July 3, 1863

Cadet U.S.M.A. July 1, 1851, Brevet Second Lieutenant Forth U.S. Artillery July 1, 1855, Second Lieutenant Second Artillery ...

Barton L. Weller

May 27, 1991

This gazebo is presented to the citizens of

Monroe by the Weller Foundation, Incorporated

in memory of

Barton L. Weller (1916 – 1990)

Mr. Weller, founder of Vitramon, Incorporated

and the Weller Foundation, was a long time

supporter of area organizations, students ...

Big Buckhead Church

This church, near Buckhead Creek, from which it derives its name, was probably organized before the Revolution by Matthew Moore, Baptist minister whose loyalist sympathies led him to leave with the British. Buckhead Church was reconstituted Sept. 11, 1787 with ...

Second Brigade

Second Division - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps Second Division

Second Brigade

Brig. Gen. Alexander S. Webb

69th. 71st. 72d. 106th. Penna. Infantry.

July 2 The 69th Penna. took position along the advanced line of the stone wall at the left of the ...

Brewster Cemetery

Founded in 1870 by Israel Swihart, the cemetery was named for his wife, Mary Brewster Swihart. Those buried here include three civil war veterans, and several children who succumbed to the harsh conditions of life on the Great Plains. The ...

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 ...

Big Meadows Lodge

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

April 28, 1997

Marker is on Skyline Drive, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Queen’s Bridge

To the casual observer, there is little to indicate the historical significance of this particular bridge crossing. Yet for at least 240 years it has been an important point in the Raritan Valley and has figured in many events that ...

Battle of Bound Brook

At dawn on April 13, 1777 Hessian Captain Ewald’s assault over the stone bridge across the Bound Brook was pinned down by “murderous fire” from American soldiers stationed in the Half Moon Battery.

Advancing North along present day Easton Avenue, ...

Van Buren

(Front):

Van Buren, settled as the seat of Ripley County, organized, 1833, became the seat of Carter County when it was organized from parts of Ripley and Shannon counties, 1859.

Nearby Big Spring State Park, 4582 acres of Ozark grandeur, founded 1924, ...