Confederate Stronghold

In the afternoon of July 1st, 1863, after Union troops retreated south to Cemetery Hill, this 2½ story brick house was occupied by Confederate sharpshooters. Catherine Sweney and daughter, Lizzie, residents of the house, fled to safety.

The house was strategically ...

This Flame of Freedom

This Flame of Freedom Donated

To the Town of North Castle

by

North Castle Post 1097

American Legion

In Memory of Those Who Perished

In the Service of Their Country

In All the Wars

Erected by Town of North Castle And

Dedicated on the 30th Day of May ...

Cedarock Historical Farm

Welcome to Cedarock Historical Farm. The farm was settled in 1830 by John and Polly Garrett. The farm was 115 acres in size (85 improved and 30 unimproved acres). Please enjoy your visit and come back to see us.

Marker can ...

History of Taft

As Taft’s first 100 years is being celebrated in 2010, let’s look back to see from where we came. Taft got its start when the railroad laid tracks to Taft and beyond. Siding Number Two was where it all started ...

Pyle's Defeat

February 1781

Near this location, mounted Loyalists from Chatham and southern Orange counties led by Col. John Pyle, and on their way to join Gen. Cornwallis in Hillsborough, were defeated by units of Gen. Greene's American Army led by Col. Henry ...

Banking Crisis of 1819

[Marker Front]:

To provide direction and stability to the economy, Congress created the nation's largest lending agency in 1816, the Second Bank of the United States. Branch banks were established around the country, two of them in Ohio-Chillicothe and Cincinnati. The ...

An Inspiring Commander in Chief

The Battle of Monmouth

26 June 1778

The Commander in Chief was every where, his Presence gave Spirit and Confidence and his command and authority soon brought every thing into order and Regularity."

Major General Nathanael Greene, 2 July 1778

For hours, through a ...

Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, S.T.B.

Here rest the bones of

Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, S.T.B.

who, as a true shepherd, tended this congregation

with the Gospel of Christ for 35 years.

His spirit joyfully escaped its shell,

which collapsed here on the

23rd of May, 1815, in the 62nd year of ...

The John Martin Shuford Gravesite

Buried here is Loyalist John Martin Shuford who died June 22, 1780 of wounds received in the Battle of Ramsour's Mill. His grave was originally marked with an old headstone and footstone. In 1997 the Lincoln County Historical Association and ...

Storming the Fort

... The men nobly responded to their officers' call and pour over the edge of the ditch into the dry moat, and then, scrambling up the bank, some on hands and knees, some stepping on their bayonets thrust into the ...