Home of Gilbert W. Knight

Gilbert W. Knight

blacksmith, G.A.R. Vet.,

N.J. 23rd Vol. Reg.

Son, Harry L. Knight

born July 4, 1866,

Burlington Co. Clerk

N.J. Public Utilities Comm.

Marker is at the intersection of Carranza Road and Medford Lakes Road/Chatsworth Road (County Route 532), on the left when traveling north ...

Triangle Fire

On this site, 146 workers lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March, 25 1911. Out of their martyrdom came new concepts of social responsibility and major legislation that helped make American working conditions the finest in ...

Council Bluffs Veterans Plaza

The Glory of their Spirit. When destiny demanded and country called, They in answer left our rolling hills and great river valley, and learned the arts of war. Then, on and beneath restless waves of the deep, in endless skies ...

Munford's Brigade

Stuart's Cavalry Division

C.S.A.

Munford's Brigade,

Stuart's Cavalry Division,

Brig. Gen. Thomas T. Munford, Commanding.

Organization

2nd Virginia Cavalry, 7th Virginia Cavalry,

12th Virginia Cavalry.

(September 16-18, 1862.)

The 2nd and 12th Virginia Cavalry reached the field on September 16th and took position on the extreme right of ...

First National Bank

Moving from a modest first floor site on Logan Street, this “modern banking house” was constructed in 1910 as the first new building of the decade. It features a limestone facade and ionic pilisters [sic - pilasters] in the neo-classical ...

Fort Shirley

Built 1755-56 by George Croghan. First a stockade and then a major link in the frontier fort chain west of the Susquehanna. Base for the Armstrong expedition, 1756. Site on opposite knoll.

Marker is on Croghan Pike, on the right when ...

First Division

Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

First Division

Brig. General John Buford

First Brigade Col. Wm. Gamble

Second Brigade Col. Thos. C. Devin

Reserve Brigade Brig. Gen. Wesley MerrittJune 29 Engaged in picketing scouting and patrolling westerly and northerly to Hagerstown. Finding no Confederate force ...

Bluefields

“Bluefields,” named for the Blue family, was built by 1870. Annie Evans Blue (d.1912) was given this land in 1872 by her father William Evans (1804–1876), Marion District planter, militia general, and state representative. Annie Blue and her husband, John ...

The Battle of Malvern Hill

Couch Defends the Union Right

Although the best known fighting on July 1, 1862, occurred across the road to the west, half of the battlefield is situated here, in front of the West House. Union infantrymen of General Darius Couch’s division ...

Site of Blacksmith Shop

Most necessary in

Colonial Times,

date erected unknown.

Blacksmiths were

Charles Kemble, Gilbert Knight,

Henry Allen, and William Cutts

Marker is at the intersection of Carranza Road and Medford Lakes Road/Chatsworth Road (County Route 532), on the right when traveling north on Carranza Road.

Courtesy ...