Fort McIntosh

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Visible here are remains of stone fireplace hearths and a portion of the original footer for the south wall of the fort. Artifacts found here included USA buttons and artillery projectiles, suggesting this may have been officers' ...

Headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia

C.S.A.

In this field was located

headquarters of the Army of

Northern Virginia

July 1. 2. 3. 4. 1863

"My headquarters were in tents in an

apple orchard back of the Seminary

along the Chambersburg Pike"

Robt. E. Lee

Marker is on Chambersburg Pike (U.S. 30), on the right ...

The Double File Trail (Round Rock)

As the Delaware Indians moved from their home in the “Redlands” of East Texas in 1828 to near present Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. They laid out this trace. It was named Double File Trail because two horsemen could ride side by ...

North Branford

North Branford

This region was opened for settlement in the 1690's as the Third Division of the Town of Branford, originally called by the Indian name Totoket. The North or Second Ecclesiastical Society (1725) and the Third Society (1745), later named ...

Mount Pleasant Press - The J. Horace McFarland Company

Located in this building at Mulberry and Crescent Streets was what became known as the "Switchboard of America," the printing business and national clearinghouse operation of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948), one of Harrisburg's most famous national figures during the first ...

Fort Murray

By the summer of 1775, British control over the Colony of Virginia was in peril and Dunmore looked to Norfolk, the most heavily populated town in Virginia and the largest seaport between New York and Charleston. The occupation of Norfolk ...

121st Pennsylvania Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):121st Penna. Infantry

July 1st 1863

Occupied this position the extreme left of

the Union line. July 2nd & 3rd on Cemetery Ridge.

Present at Gettysburg 11 officers 286 men.

Killed and died of wounds 20 men

Wounded 5 officers 33 men

Captured and ...

Post Oak Island Lodge #181, A.F. & A.M.

Settled as early as the 1840s, Post Oak Island was one of this area’s earliest communities. There, on September 15, 1855, I.J. Kidd, T. Gatlin, P.A. Middleton, M. Gardner and A.S. Harper established a Masonic lodge. On February 2, 1856, ...

Battle of Wytheville

St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery

On July 13, 1863, Union Colonel John T. Toland led 872 officers and men of

the 34th Regiment Mounted Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Camp Piatt,

West Virginia, into Southwest Virginia to attack the railroads, telegraphs, and salt and ...

80th New York Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):Ulster Guard

20th N.Y. State Militia

80th N.Y. Infantry.

1st Brig. 3d Div. 1st Corps.

Organized 1851 at Kingston. N.Y.

as 20th N.Y.S.M.

Apr. 28, 1861 entered U.S. service for 3 months.

Sept. 5, 1861 re-entered service for 3 years.

Sept. 5, 1864 re-enlisted as ...