Veedersburg - VanBuren Township War Memorial

1919 - 1991

American Legion

Veedersburg Post 288

In Memory of those from

Veedersburg & Vanburen Twp.

who served, and those who

gave their lives in the

service of their Country.

[Left Side]:

World War I

Lozan R. Bantz • Robert Edwards • Charles Forrest • Alva Gressmire • Frank ...

Howlett Line Park

Following the Battle of Ware Bottom Church on May 20, 1864, Confederate forces began digging the earthworks that would become known as the Howlett Line. Named after the Howlett house, which stood at the northernmost point, the line stretched across ...

Chestnut Spring

In Memoriam

Workers at Mont Alto Furnace

One Half Mile West

1807 1893

Marker is on Mont Alto Road (Pennsylvania Route 233), on the left when traveling west.

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Brigadier General William Thompson

1736 - 1781

The First Colonel of the U.S. Army

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Old Mount Pleasant

Two miles east of here, on a bluff fronting Savannah River, is the site of Mt. Pleasant, a former Uchee Indian town and English trading post. Even before the foundation of Georgia, the spot was a key point on an ...

Jim Thorpe

1886 - 1953

Indian athlete, star of the 1912 Olympics, made his professional baseball debut with Rocky Mount Railroaders, 1909. Ball park was 300 yds. W.

Marker is at the intersection of North Church Street (Business U.S. 301) and Falls Road, on ...

316th Troop Carrier Group

Hqs., 36th., 37th., 44th.,& 45th.

Squadrons

World War II

Nine battle stars

Three Presidential Unit Citations

A living memorial to those who served

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The 14th Corps

On Dec. 5, 1865, Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis` 14th Corps of Gen. Sherman`s army (USA), which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, camped at Jacksonboro. Carlin`s and Morgan`s divisions had marched via ...

Prelude to Gettysburg

One of the great debates of our Country's history and legacy is what scholars call "the two Civil Wars": the first a matter of campaigns, generals, and troop movements and the second focusing on the ways that the great conflict ...

Molly Pitcher

Mary “Ludwig” Hays McCauley, known as “Molly Pitcher,” heroine at Battle of Monmouth, is buried in Old Graveyard just east of here. In this burial ground are graves of many distinguished citizens.

Marker is at the intersection of Hanover Street (Pennsylvania ...