Helderbergs

The name means clear

mountains. They have been

called "the key to the

geology of North America"

Marker is on Thacher Park Road (County Route 157), on the right when traveling west.

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Balscadden House

W. B. Yeats

Poet

Lived Here • 1880-1883

“I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”

Marker is on Balscadden Road, on the left when traveling west.

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Second Battle of Hagerstown

Custer Captures the Town

Six days had passed since the Federals had failed in their first attempt to seize Hagerstown as they pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate army retreating to Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg. On Sunday morning, July ...

Site of the First Jewish Synagogue Owned by a Congregation on th

Site of the first Jewish Synagogue owned by a congregation on the Pacific Coast on 7th Street between L and Capital Avenue

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Tank, Combat, 90MM Gun

M48

The M48 Tank was designed in 1954. The tank

weight is 45 tons. It has an aircooled 810 hp

engine and carries a crew of four. Armament

consists of two machine guns in addition to

the 90mm gun which has a maximum effective

range of ...

First Battle of Hagerstown

Vicious Fighting in the Streets

Combat raged here in the town square and in adjoining city blocks for six hours on Monday, July 6, 1863. Holding Hagerstown was crucial to Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreat to Virginia after the Battle of ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Invasion & Retreat

After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through the ...

Seven Days’ Battles

Gaines’s Mill

Half a mile south is Boatswain Creek. The battle that was begun at Gaines’s Mill by A. P. Hill, following Porter’s rear guard, culminated at the Union position on Boatswain Creek. There A. P. Hill and Longstreet, moving eastward, ...

Blountsville

On Nov. 18, 1864, Blair’s 17th Corps of the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman’s army [US], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (12 mi. NW ...

Claremont Public Improvements

John Galen Howard, Architect

City of Berkeley Landmark

designated in 1984

Claremont, a 1905 subdivision, was originally part of the 125-acre Edson Adams ranch. Early advertisements for the tract enticed families to leave the noisy, crowded city behind and head for “sunshine and ...