Indian Field Creek

The ground to the south along this creek was the home of the Chiskiack Indians, a small tribe whose leader was a "werowance," or petty chief, under Powhatan. As the English began to settle this area, about 1630, the Chiskiacks ...

United States Post Office

This Property Has Been

Placed On The

National Register

Of Historic Places

By The United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on North Beach Street north of Bay Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Catherine Furnace

Underground Railroad for Union Soldiers

Built in 1846, Catherine Furnace was one of three Page County furnaces in operation during the Civil War. The 30-foot-tall main stack is nearly all that remains of the cold blast furnace and once-huge operation here, ...

Westside Flume & Lumber Company

1889 - 1962

May 31, 1889 Henry J. Crocker, Wellington Gregg, Thomas Bullock and Charles Gardner formed the Westside Flume and Lumber Company, for a total cost of 361,000.00 dollars. The mill was built, and by the end of the ...

Ringfield Plantation

The land across this creek was first granted to Captain Robert Felgate in 1630. Sixty years later it was acquired by Joseph Ring, a prosperous planter and one of the trustees of the Town of York when it was founded ...

Lasting Friendship

by J. Hester

John O. Meusebach, German settler and founder of Fredericksburg, and Penatuka Comanche chief, Santanna share a peace pipe on May 7, 1847, at the signing of the treaty between the People of Fredericksburg and the Comanche Nation. The ...

The Naval Battle of Fort Montgomery

When Sir Henry Clinton’s British troops reached Forts Clinton and Montgomery on October 6, 1777, some of his ships began moving upriver to support them. First came two galleys, the Dependence and the Crane, which were rowed into position. Four ...

First Brigade

First Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps First Division

First Brigade

Brig. Gen. Alfred T.A. Torbert

1st. 2d. 3d. 15th. New Jersey Infantry

July 2 Arrived at 4 p.m. from Manchester Md. a distance by the route taken of about 35 miles ...

Evesham Friends Meeting House

Oldest Friends Meeting House

in Burlington County – Used

as barracks for General Clinton’s

troops in June 1778

Built 1760 Addition 1798

Marker is at the intersection of Moorestown - Mount Laurel Road and Hainesport Road, on the left when traveling east on Moorestown - ...

Building a Fort

Early in the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress realized that the Hudson River was critical to the American Cause. If the British controlled the river, they could divide the rebellious colonies. Therefore, the Americans began work on Fort Montgomery in ...