Bloody Hill

Wilson's Creek

Fierce changes and countercharges led to heavy casualties on Bloody Hill. Considering the numbers of troops engaged, it was one of the bloodiest fights in the war.

Union artillery batteries on this hill dueled with opposing batteries in the valley ...

Mt. La Grange – Barn Bluff

This bold bluff was a landmark for French explorers who named it Mt. La Grange for its resemblance to a large barn.

Some 10,000 years ago meltwater from the glaciers carved a deep channel in this area. Barn Bluff became an ...

Seven Days Battles

Gaines’s Mill

On this hill, facing north, Sykes’s division was posted in the afternoon of June 27, 1862, holding the eastern end of the Union line. Here Jackson attacked, while to the west A. P. Hill and Longstreet renewed their assaults. ...

Lubec Veterans Honor Roll

Lest We Forget

[Honor Roll of Veterans]

Revolutionary War • Civil War

World War I • World War II

Korean War • Vietnam War

Peace Time Service

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Pleasant Street, on the left when traveling west on Main ...

The Oblong

This marker denotes the western boundary of Connecticut under an agreement reached in 1683 between Governor Thomas Dongan of New York and Governor Robert Treat of Connecticut.

Later the Treaty of Dover signed on May 14, 1731 moved the western border ...

Guibor's Battery

Wilson's Creek

From this spot one can imagine the challenge which faced the Confederate army. Further up the hill in front of you, over 4,000 Union soldiers and 10 pieces of artillery were positioned to repulse any Southern effort to regain ...

Ante-Bellum Cotton Mills 1840

About one mile west of here is the site of the Globe Cotton Factory which was erected on Cypress Creek in 1840, By 1857 its operations included three cotton mills, a flour mill, and two corn mills, all powered by ...

Kemper's (Va) Brigade

C.S.A.

From noon, September 15, 1862, until driven from position late in the afternoon of the 17th, the right of the infantry line of the Army of Northern Virginia, held by Kemper's Virginia Brigade, was 265 yards due east of this ...

Historic Cold Harbor Road

In this location ran the original road from Mechanicsville to Cold Harbor. The bridge that crossed Beaver Dam Creek was destroyed by Union troops prior to the June 26, 1862, battle.

Marker can be reached from Cold Harbor Road (Virginia Route ...

Bingham Canyon

Bingham Canyon was named for Erastus Bingham and sons, Sanford and Thomas, Utah Pioneers of 1847, who in 1848 took up grazing land in this vicinity, first for private herds and later as a community enterprise. They built a small ...