Telfair Hospital for Females

In her will, Mary Telfair (1791-1875) provided for the establishment of a women’s hospital and also named the first president (Louise Gilmer) and six directresses to manage it. Originally located at the southwest corner of Drayton and New Houston (now ...

Battle of Springfield

This point marks the farthest advance of the Confederates into the city. After finally routing the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia, Confederates were forming along Walnut Street for the final assault into the city when drums along Jordan Creek to the ...

Campaign of 1781

About a mile to the east, August 13, 1781, Lafayette, then commanding American forces in Virginia, placed in camp his militia, consisting of Campbell's, Stevens' and Lawson's brigades. Wayne was at Westover; Muhlenberg and Febiger were in camp on the ...

93rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

Third Brigade, Third Division

(Front):3rd Brig.

93rd Reg't Pa Vols

July 2nd and 3rd 1884

Erected by

the surviving members

of the Regiment

Oct. 30th 1864.

(Back):

93. Regiment Penn. Volunteers formed line of battle at this point under the immediate direction of Maj-Gen. John Sedgwick commander of the ...

Campaign of 1781

Lafayette's Encampment

On 13 August 1781, the Marquis de Lafayette encamped his army in King William County. He placed his militia four miles east between the Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers and stationed his light infantry - commanded by Gen. John Peter ...

Pluck and Good Fortune

“I won’t die here in this creek… [I’m] getting out of here.” - Pinkie Adair, homesteader and camp cook

During the 1910 Fires, perseverance often meant the difference between life and death. At 26 years old, Ione “Pinkie” Adair could ride, ...

Upper Springfield Meeting House and Cemetery

Historical Site

This Site was placed in the National

and New Jersey State Historical Registers

in 1979.

The Meeting House, situated at the

intersection of two Indian Trails, is one

of the oldest in Burlington County.

Early Quakers worshipped here and

are resting in the Burial Grounds.

Marker is ...

Texan Capture of Mexican Dispatches

The San Jacinto Campaign in Southwest Harris County

After the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, Gen. Sam Houston led the Texan Army in retreat from Gonzales. The Mexican army under Gen. Santa Anna followed eastward from San ...

Mattaponi Indians

Two miles east is the Mattaponi Indian reservation, home of descendants of the great chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas. The reservation is situated on the Mattaponi River and is one of the oldest Indian reservations in the United States, existing ...

Federal Artillery Positions

August 29 and 30, 1862

Federal Artillery Positions

From the John Dogan House northward to this point, Union batteries occupied this ridge throughout the Second Battle of Manassas. At one time on August 30 more than thirty guns were firing from this ...