Heroes of the American Revolution

To the memory of the Heroes of the

American Revolution

1771 – 1783

buried in this churchyard

Maj. Gen. Seth Pomeroy • Col. James Thompson • Col. Samuel Drake • Lieut. Col. Gilbert Drake • Capt. Jasper Drake • Capt. Joshua Drake • Capt. ...

First Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1800. The original building, begun in 1816, rebuilt on same walls after fire of 1831, stands one block east.

Marker is at the intersection of Green Street and Bow Street / Maiden Lane, on the left when ...

Battle of Petersburg

25 April 1781

About midday on 25 April 1781, Maj. Gen. William Phillips discovered that the right flank of the American militia, on the edge of Blandford was vulnerable to attack from the south and rear. He ordered Lt. Col. John ...

Site of St. Peter’s Church

This stone and tablet has been erected by the Cornelia Beekman Chapter Jr. Sons and Daughters of the Revolution November 28, 1914, with the consent of the rector, wardens and the vestrymen of St. Peter’s Church, to mark the place ...

First Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1800. The original building, begun in 1816, rebuilt on same walls after fire of 1831, stands one block west.

Marker is at the intersection of Person Street and Bow Street, on the right when traveling west on ...

Thrift School

1884-1909

One of the oldest surviving one-room schoolhouses in Prince George’s County, Thrift School was built in 1884. It replaced an earlier school from 1869 located on the same site. The School Commissioners, having acquired the one-acre tract from the Bryan ...

Main Confederate Line

The Confederate Left

Wing, part of a long

hook-shaped line de-

signed to trap the

Union forces, extended

across the road here

on March 19. This

sector, occupied by

Maj. Gen. R. F. Hoke’s

Division, was evacuated

on March 20. ...

Battle of Petersburg

25 April 1781

On 24 Apr. 1781, Maj. Gen. William Phillips’s force of 2,500 British regulars landed at City Point, 12 miles to the east on the James River, as part of a major campaign to disrupt the American force’s main ...

The Lenape Village of Pelouesse

A Lenape village called Pelouesse was identified in 1715 across the Musconetcong River from Hampton, New Jersey. The name of the village, Pelouesse, as pronounced by the colonial Americans, derived from the Lenape words yapei, meaning "on the stream bank" ...

First Union Attack

Brig. Gen. W. P. Carlin’s

Division attacked the

Confederate line above

the road here on March

19. Repulsed, they threw

up works but were

driven out by the Con-

federate charge.

Marker is on Harper House Road, on the right when traveling east.

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