Fort Selden State Monument

1865-1891

Fort Selden was established to protect settlers and railroad construction crews in the Mesilla Valley and the Jornada del Muerto from Apaches. The first regular army troops to garrison it were four companies of the black 125th Infantry. General Douglas ...

Site of Placerville Drive In Market

Owned and operated by the

Ray Gier Family

From 1946 to 1955

Owned and operated by the Bing Peterson

and Thomas C. Smith Families

From 1955 to 1967

Marker is on Main Street west of California Highway 49, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Brigade

Third Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps Third Division

First Brigade

Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth

Col. Nathaniel P. Richmond

5th. New York 18th. Pennsylvania

1st. Vermont 1st. (10 Cos.) West Virginia Cavalry

June 30 Arrived at Hanover about noon and was attacked by ...

Battery E, Fourth U.S. Artillery

First Brigade Horse Artillery - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

First Brigade Horse Artillery

Battery E Fourth U.S. Artillery

Four 3 inch Rifles

Lieut. Samuel S. Elder commanding

July 3 Arrived on the field and took position on a hill southwest of Round Top ...

Theobald Wolfe Tone

(1763-98)

An Irish patriot convicted of treason. He died mysteriously in prison in November 1798.

The memorial consists of a ten-foot figure of Wolfe Tone backed by a wall of rough granite columns of varying width and rising to 16 feet in ...

Paxton Riflemen

Under Capt. Matthew Smith and Lt. Michael Simpson, a company of riflemen from Paxton Township marched to Quebec, Canada, to serve with Montgomery in the attack on that city on December 31, 1775.

Marker is on U.S. 22 William Penn Highway ...

Site of Original Raley’s Grocery Store

Site of original

Raley’s Grocery Store

opened on February 16, 1935

by

Thomas P. Raley, Founder of

“Raley’s Super Markets

&

Drug Centers”

Marker is on Main Street west of California Highway 49, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gun from the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa

5 inch / 25 caliber

“Dual Purpose” secondary artillery gun

The U.S.S. Tuscaloosa was equipped with eight such guns, located in single turrets, four on either side of the ship. Developed in the 1920’s, its purpose was for both antiaircraft and surface ...

Battle of Griswoldville The Deployment and Assaults

About 1:30 P.M. Nov. 22, 1864, after halting in Griswoldville to reform his column and report his progress, Brig. Gen. P.J. Phillips began moving his command (1st Division, Georgia Militia and attached units) east to clear the town, intending to ...

French 75 Millimeter Feldhase

This 1916 gun was used by the American Expeditionary Forces in World War 1 as part of a horse drawn caisson. During the war, American forces were loaned guns, planes, and other equipment from the French arsenal.

This gun was moved ...