Wars and Conflicts in White Springs

Although residents living here have always been somewhat insulated, outside influences such as war and conflict have historically influenced the Town of White Springs. The Spanish, French, British, and Americans all fought wars to won the peninsula of Florida. The ...

The Gift of a State Park

High Point State Park

High Point – One of New Jersey’s First State Parks

Like many early parks, High Point was privately owned for many years. During the early 1900s it was the summer estate of Anthony Kuser and his wife, Susie ...

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler

(Center Plaque):

Ferdinand Rudolph

Hassler

October 7, 1770 - November 20, 1843The first superintendent of the United States' survey of the coast, founded in 1807, led America's efforts in establishing the geodetic framework for all land measurement and hydrographic surveys of the young ...

Carter’s Fort

Three miles east in Rye Cove stood Carter’s Fort, built by Thomas Carter in 1784. It was a station on the Old Wilderness Road from North Carolina to Kentucky.

Marker is on Sunbright Highway (County Route 871) just north of County ...

39th New York Infantry (Garibaldi Guards)

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

(Front):39th

New York

Infantry,

(Garibaldi Guards)

3rd Brig. 3d Div.

2d Corps.

(Back)This Regiment at about

7 o'clock P.M. July 2d 1863.

Being ordered to support

General Sickles' line.

Charged and drove the enemy

Recapturing the Guns and

Equipment of Battery I.

5th U.S. Artillery.

A stone tablet marks

the ...

Delaware's Field of Valor

On 3 September 1777 an American light infantry corps under the command of Brigadier General William Maxwell engaged British and Hessian forces here in the Battle of Cooch's Bridge. Maxwell's Corps was composed of soldiers from New Jersey, North Carolina, ...

The Third Battle of Winchester

Thoburn's Attack

As the Nineteenth Corps tried to reorganize its lines, Union Col. Joseph Thoburn's division of the Eighth Army Corps came up from reserve and took position at the edge of the First Woods behind you. Union Gen. Philip Sheridan ...

Burning of the Brig "Peggy Stewart"

Near this spot

which was then the shore of the bay,

the Brig “Peggy Stewart” was burned

by her owner, “Anthony Stewart.”

October 19, 1774

To pacify the indignation of the

citizens roused by the payment of

duties on seventeen boxes of tea

imported in the brig.

—————

Erected in ...

1st Delaware Infantry

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

Position

held by

the 1st Reg.

Del. Vol.

Infantry

2nd Brig. 3rd Div.

2nd Army Corps.

July 2nd

and 3rd

1863.

Erected by the state of

Delaware to commemorate

her sons.

A.D. 1855.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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City of Beacon

Incorporated May 15, 1913

consolidation of Matteawan

and Fishkill Landing

Villages.

Marker is on North Avenue (New York Route 9D), on the right when traveling south.

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