Battery K, 1st N.Y. Light Artillery

(11th New York Ind. Battery Attached)

(Front):Battery K.

1st N.Y. Light Artillery.

(11th New York Ind. Battery Attached)

Artillery Reserve.

(Back):

Battery K, (Fitzhugh's), Held this position July 3rd 1863 and assisted in repulsing Pickett's Charge. Casualties, wounded 7.

Organized at Fort Plain, N.Y. Mustered in Oct. ...

Arthur Dobbs

Royal Governor 1754–65, author, member Irish Parliament, promoter of search for Northwest Passage, is buried at Saint Philips Church.

Marker is on River Road SE south of U.S. 17, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Prison Ship Martyrs Monument

[Engraved into the limestone at the base of the tower]:

1776

The

Prison

Ship

Martyrs

Monument

1908

[Plaque on monument's opposite side from engraving]:

In memory of the 11,500 patriotic American Sailors and Soldiers who endured untold suffering, and died on the British prison ships, anchored in Wallabout during ...

Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg

Three Sport Letterman, All American 1919

Coach at Northwestern University 23 years

Helped organize first NCAA Basketball Tournament

University of Kansas Athletic Director 1950-1964

Manager of the 1960 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team, Chairman for 13 years

NCAA Basketball Tournament Chairman

Inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall ...

The Washington Artillery Park

[Panel 1]:

On and near this site since 1718 has centered the military activities of both regular and citizen soldiers of France, Spain, the Confederacy and the United States. On either side were the redoubts forming the “Great Battery” which ...

Benjamin Smith Barton

1766 - 1815

Physician, professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of first American botany textbook. In 1803, he taught natural history to Meriwether Lewis in preparation for Lewis & Clark Expecition, 1803 - 1806. He lived ...

Batteries F & K, Third U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Batteries F& K Third U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. John C. Turnbull Commanding

July 1 Took position on crest of hill near General Meade's ...

Hon. Lieut. Colonel Stuart

Of the Second Bat-

alion of the Queens

Guards, was killed

at this spot by

Captain John Smith

of the First Mary-

land Regiment.

[ Left Side of Monument: ]

Col. Stuart’s sword

was unburied here

in 1866.

[ Right Side of Monument: ]

Erected by the

G.B.G. Co. in honor

of a brave ...

Hasty Additions in Wartime

When World War II began in Europe in 1939, the U.S. Army numbered 175,000 men. By the time of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the army had swelled to over 1.5 million. To accommodate this influx, temporary wooden “mobilization” building ...

Barracks, School, Headquarters

This barracks was built for the enlisted men at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground. After the proving ground moved to Aberdeen, Maryland, in 1919, it became the Fort Hancock School and later Headquarters for the 7th Coast Artillery Regiment.

Sandy Hook ...