Fort McIntosh

Fort McIntosh, 1778-1788, built by General Lachlan McIntosh's continentals of the 8th Pennsylvania and 13th Virginia, veterans of Saratoga, Brandywine, Germantown, and Valley Forge, and Virginia Militia, was the first fort built north of the Ohio by the United States. ...

99th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Corps

(Around the Upper step):99th Pennsylvania Infantry

2nd Brigade

1st Division

3rd Corps

(Front):Fought on this line in the

afternoon of July 2nd

Present at Gettysburg

339 officers and men

Killed and died of wounds

1 officer and 24 men

Wounded 4 officers

and 70 men

Captured or ...

Fish Hall Plantation

This plantation was part of a 1717 Proprietary landgrant of 500 acres to Col. John Barnwell. Later owners included members of the Green, Ellis, and Pope families. Nearby tabby ruins are remains of fire places of slave cabins. Graves of ...

Commanding Officers

Fort McIntosh

Col. John Gibson - 1778

Brig. Gen. Lachlan McIntosh - 1778

Lt. Col. Richard Campbell - 1778

Col. Daniel Brodhead - 1778-1779

Capt. John Clark - 1779 & 1781

Capt. Samuel Dawson - 1779

Capt. Robert Beal - 1779

Capt. Simon Morgan - 1779

Major Richard Taylor ...

Fort McIntosh

1778 — • — 1916

This Marks the Site of

Fort McIntosh

First United States Military Fort

On the north side of the Ohio River

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Erected by

The Fort McIntosh Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

of Beaver County, ...

Franklinia Altamaha

The Franklin Tree (Franklinia Altamaha)

was discovered by John Bartram, the

first Native American Botanist, on

October 1, 1765.It was located about

18 miles south of here in the swamp

lands of the Altamaha River.This tree

was named after Benjamin Franklin and

became famous as the Lost ...

University of Maryland Memorial Chapel

Erected as a memorial

and

dedicated October 12, 1952

to those

University of Maryland

men and women

who gave their lives

in the service of

their country

Marker is at the intersection of Regents Drive and Chapel Drive, on the left when traveling north on Regents Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Historic District of Titusville

Named for the family of settler Joseph Titus, who established two sawmills and a fishery here in the 1700's, Titusville was a major industrial and transportation center in the mid-19th century. Spurred by the construction of the Delaware and Raritan ...

Georgetown - Pride of the Sierra / Growlersburg / E Clampus Vitu

Georgetown

Pride of the Sierras

Georgetown was founded in 1849 by George Phipps, a member of a party of sailors prospecting for gold, who first pitched his tent near the head of what is now known as Empire Canyon. George's town quickly ...

Locomotive Club of Richmond

In 1852, Joseph and Elizabeth Tyree owned this 400 acre tract of land known as "Woodstock." After changing hands several times, the Locomotive Club of Richmond purchased 208 acres of the property and built this clubhouse in 1925. Through the ...