Colonel Thomas Hendricks / Elizabeth Trimble Hendricks

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Colonel Thomas Hendricks

Veteran of the War of 1812

Founded this Town in 1821

He built the first cabin and donated one

hundred ...

Cole – Allaire – Boyd House

Oldest dwelling in

Leonia – Circa 1765

Home of noted loyalist,

Sam Cole

prior to and during part of

the Revolution.

Marker is at the intersection of Grand Avenue (County Route 93), on the left when traveling south on Grand Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Durell’s Independent Battery

Durell's

Independent

Battery "D"

Pennsylvania

Artillery

2nd Brigade 2nd Division

9th Corps

Posted 375 yards south

70 degrees east

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Casualties at Antietam

Wounded 3

Recruited in Berks and Bucks Counties

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Battles Participated in

Kelly's Ford - Jackson

Bristoe Station - Wilderness

Second Bull Run - Spotsylvania

Chantilly - Petersburg

South Mountain - The Crater

Antietam - Ream's Station

White ...

Baker's Station

Site of blockhouse built by

Captain John Baker in 1784.

Rendezvous of scouts along

Indian war path from Muskingum

Valley into Virginia. Near by are

buried Captain Baker, John

Wetzel, and others killed by

Indians in 1787.

Marker is on West Virginia Route 2 south of Woodland and ...

Execution of Gabriel

Near here is the early site of the Richmond gallows and “Burial Ground for Negroes.” On 10 Oct. 1800, Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith from Brookfield plantation in Henrico County, was executed there for attempting to lead a mass uprising against ...

Bedford Furnace

First iron furnace in the Juniata region. Famous as a center for making quality charcoal iron. Located on Black Log Creek below its junction with Shade Creek. Completed about 1786.

Marker is on Croghan Pike (Route 522), on the right.

Courtesy ...

Anderson's Brigade

Hood's Division - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Hood's Division

Anderson's Brigade

7th. 8th. 9th. 11th. 59th.

Georgia Infantry

July 2 Reached the Field about 4 p.m. and formed line. The 7th Regiment was sent southward to watch the Union Cavalry. The others ...

Mulberry Bend Scenic Overlook

This short trail leads to two overlooks that offer views of a natural, free-flowing segment of the Missouri River. Here, the river still meanders through the countryside much as it did in Lewis and Clark's day.

At the first overlook, exhibits ...

Mulberry Street Bridge

The linkage of downtown Harrisburg with the emerging Allsion Hill at this location was established in 1891 with the opening of the original Mulberry Street Bridge. Hailed at that time by Harrisburg civic leader J. Horace McFarland as "the day ...

Slavery and Belvoir

Little is known about the slaves and slave life at Belvoir. The manor was constructed at a time when wealthy Virginia farmers used slave labor as a diversified agricultural regime. Slaves also worked as skilled tradesmen in the countryside and ...