Shirley Place

James Shirley built this raised cottage in 1838, using Federal and Greek Revival detailing. Constructed of local handmade brick, it was home for him, his wife, Mary Ann Christian Shirley, and his mother, Elizabeth Shirley. James was town surveyor in ...

Army of the Mississippi

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

General Albert Sidney Johnston (Killed).

General G.T. Beauregard.

First Corps. Maj. Gen Leonidas Polk.

Second Corps. Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg.

Third Corps. Maj. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee, (wounded).

Reserve Corps. Brig. Gen. John C. Breckinridge.

The Confederate army, known ...

Margaret M. DuPont

Margaret McLeod DuPont was born and raised in Tuscaloosa and graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in Home Economics Education. She worked as a secretary for the Vice President of Reichhold Chemical and as a Stenographer for ...

Bena Depot

Situated at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, Kern County was part of a natural corridor for a railroad running between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The Southern Pacific Railroad began laying track southward from San Francisco through the ...

Cape May Lighthouse

Welcome to the

Cape May Lighthouse

For some 180 years, a lighthouse beacon has stood here at the southern tip of New Jersey, guarding the entrance to Delaware Bay. The present tower was constructed in 1859. Standing 157½ feet tall, it is ...

The Pineries are Gone

A Great Pine Forest

The St. Croix River valley's sandy loam soil is ideal for growing pine. In the 19th century its forests were filled with white pines. Many of them were two to three hundred years old, four to five ...

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park

Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania—this is the bloodiest landscape in North America. No place more vividly reflects the Civil War’s tragic cost in all its forms. A city bombarded, bloodied, and looted. Farms large and small ruined. Refugees by the ...

Ambo Point

You are standing where Perth Amboy’s history began. This is the place called Ompoge, meaning ‘point.’ The Lenni Lenape used these beaches for thousands of years before any European settlers arrived. In 1651, it was deeded by the Lenni Lenape ...

Post Office Oak

From 1825 to 1847

a cache at the foot

of this tree

served as a post office

for incoming and outgoing

wagon trains

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 56) near Union Street, on the left when traveling east.

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First Presbyterian Church of Connecticut Farms

The First Presbyterian

Church of Connecticut

Farms was built in 1730

and burned to the ground

on June 7, 1780 by the

British and Hessian army.

Reverend James Caldwell

was minister.

Marker is on Stuyvesant Avenue (County Route 619), on the right when traveling south.

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