S. S. Cape May

Ship’s Bell

from

S. S. Cape Map

Built 1943 Retired 1969

Length 417’9” Beam 60’

Draft 27’6” Crew 49

Presented to the city by U. S. Maritime Administration in 1974

Served in European war zone in World War II

Later served in peacetime commerce

Plaque courtesy of Cape May ...

Portland Civil War Monument

1861 - 1865

More than four thousand men

were enrolled from Portland

in the army and navy for the

War of the Rebellion

More than three hundred were

killed in battle or

died in service.

Honor and grateful remembrance

to the dead, equal honor to those

who, daring to ...

Alpha and Omega

One mile north of here were the towns of Alpha and Omega, named by gold miners in the early 1850’s. The tremendous hydraulic diggings, visible from near this point, engulfed most of the original townsites. Alpha was the birthplace of ...

5th New Hampshire Infantry

1st Brigade, 1st Division

(Text Displayed on Plaques, presented counterclockwise)

(First Plaque):Here July 2, 1863, from 5 p.m. till 7

the 5th N.H. Vols. stood and fought.

Total engaged 182.

Killed or mortally wounded 31.

Total killed and wounded 81.

(Second Plaque):

Killed or Mortally Wounded

2nd Lieut. Ruel ...

Cap’t John Huyler’s Farm

In 1776, a 180 acre farm here was owned by Loyalist John Ackerson. It extended from the Tenakill to the Hudson, bordered on the north by the road used by British invaders that year. Seized as enemy property, it was ...

Fleischman Family Chapel

Dedicated to the Fleischman Family, whose family members have served as officers of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society over four generations covering three centuries. Their untiring and devoted service to the Society has been a mitzvah benefiting this beautiful historic ...

13th Pennsylvania Reservers

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):Bucktails

(Right):13th Pennsylvania Reservers

(1st Rifles) 42d Infantry

1st Brigade 3d Division 5th Corps

Mustered in May 28 - June 11 1861

Mustered out June 11 1864

Recruited in Tioga, Perry, Cameron, Warren, Carbon,

Elk, Chester, McLean and Clearfield CountiesPresent at Gettysburg 30 officers ...

Chaplains Hill

(Left)

These Chaplains of the United States

Army Gave Their Lives In The World War

April 6, 1917 - Nov. 11, 1918

[Two Columns 23 Names]

" Greater love hath no man than this, that

a man lay down his life ...

The Upper Mississippi

From Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois, the upper Mississippi River flows through America's heartland for over 1100 miles. Its currents have borne the Indian's canoe, the explorer's dugout, and the trader's packet. Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, and Zebulon Pike ...

Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Site of the first

Cumberland Presbyterian

Church. Used as

a hospital during

the battle of Prairie

Grove 1862 marked

by Prairie Grove

Chapter U.D.C. 1930.

Marker is at the intersection of West Buchanan Street (U.S. 72) and Katie Smith Street, on the right when traveling west ...