Woodbridge Township

The first settlers arrived here in the mid-1600s after the land was purchased from the Lenni Lenape People. The township was chartered June 1, 1669 by King Charles II of England. Composed of ten separate towns, it remains the oldest ...

Great Woodbridge Train Wreck of 1951

In memory of the 85 people who perished on February 6, 1951, when a Pennsylvania Railroad Commuter Train derailed ¼ of a mile (1300 feet) south of this station, and in recognition of the Woodbridge residents and those of the ...

Mount Hope Estate & Grubb Mansion

Mount Hope Estate

Has Been Placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

1980

Marker can be reached from Lebanon Road (Pennsylvania Route 72).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Covered Bridge

Built by Arad Copeland

below Beecher Falls in 1879.

Only NYS Queenpost Truss

Bridge. Placed on NYS and

National Register in 1998

Marker is on North Shore Road (County Route 4), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

General Patrick R. Cleburne

City Named for Texas Confederate General Patrick R. Cleburne

1828-1864

Born near Cork, Ireland came to U.S. 1849. Drug clerk in Ohio, became lawyer in Arkansas. Recruited 1st Arkansas Regt. for Confederacy. Elected colonel. Promoted brigadier general March 1862, made major general ...

USS Norfolk Bell

The first Naval vessel to bear the name Norfolk was a brigantine built in 1798 to protect American commerce against armed French vessels in the West Indies.

The second USS Norfolk, Destroyer Leader I, was a submarine "hunter-killer" ship and ...

Glorietta Battlefield

The decisive battle of the Civil War

in New Mexico was fought at the

summit of Glorietta Pass on

March 28, 1862. Union troops

won the battle when a party of

Colorado Volunteers burned

the Confederate supply

wagons, thus destroying

Southern hopes for taking

over ...

James F. Byrnes

1879-1972

Lawmaker

Supreme Court Justice

"Assistant President"

Secretary of State

Peacemaker

Governor

Citizen of Aiken, 1900-1926

He gave a lifetime of service to state, nation, and the world.

Marker is on Park Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Kershaw's Brigade

Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade of McLaw's Division ordered on the afternoon of July 2, 1863 to attack the Union battle line north and east of the Rose Farm 100 yards eastward. Crossed the Emmitsburg Road in ...

Gettysburg Address

Nearby, Nov. 19, 1863, in dedicating the National Cemetery, Abraham Lincoln gave the address which he had written in Washington and revised after his arrival at Gettysburg the evening of November 18.

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on ...