Camp Brandywine

In the Civil War the first camp of this name was at Wilmington Fair Grounds for the First and Second Delaware Regiments. The same name was given this site in September 1862 for a camp of Pennsylvania troops sent to ...

14th New Hampshire Regiment

(Front):

New Hampshire erects this monument to the memory of her brave sons of her 14th Regiment who fell in battle Sept. 19, 1864 upon this field and are here buried in one common grave.

Capts.

W.H. Chaffin.

W.A. Fosgate.

Lieuts.

H.S. Paul.

J.A. Fiske.

(Right):Sergts.

C.C. Wilson.

G.W. Felch.

M.MaGurdy.

A.A. ...

Ellis Preaching House

Nearby to the northeast stood Ellis Preaching House, an early Methodist meetingplace in Sussex County. Francis Asbury, a pioneering Methodist leader and circuit rider, first visited the Ellis family in 1775 and later conducted services at the preaching house on ...

Carson Park Baseball Stadium

Historic Building

The Carson Park Baseball Stadium is a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project constructed in 1936-37. The stadium was built at a cost of $60,000. The sandstone used for the stadium was quarried at Downsville, WI about 25 miles from ...

Early Peanut Crop

One mile northwest Dr. Matthew Harris grew the first commercial crop of peanuts in the United States, according to tradition, in or soon after 1842.

Marker is on South County Drive (U.S. 460) near George Town Road (Virginia Route 615), on ...

General John “Black Jack” Pershing

1860-1948

Spanish American War

Mexican Expedition

General of the Armies

World War I

Attended the dedication of Monument Park as keynote speaker in 1908

Marker is at the intersection of Palisade Avenue and Angioletti Place, on the left when traveling south on Palisade Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Thomas Paine

1737-1809

Author-Soldier

“Common Sense”                     “American Crisis”

  January 10, 1776                   December 19, 1776

Thomas Paine volunteered for the Continental Army. He ...

General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold

General "Hap" Arnold, WW II Commander of the Army Air Forces, is commemorated by the Air Force research and development installation bearing his name. In 1944, he directed long range planning for air research and development to maintain this Nation's ...

Hamilton Park

Hamilton Park

Given in Memory Of

David Boughton Hamilton

1824 – 1898

Manufacturer Banker State Senator

Captain 5th Regiment

Connecticut Voluteers

Public-Spirited Citizen

This land adjacent to Rogers and Brothers Silver

Factory of which he was president from 1878 to

1898 was givn to the City of Waterbury in 1899 ...

John Prince Elton

John Prince Elton

1865 – 1948

Mayor of the City of Waterbury 1903 – 1905

Bequeathed to the city this site on which

was the home of the Elton Family. True to

the tradition of hid forebears, he devoted

his lifetime to the industrial, civic, and

cultural ...