Black’s and White’s Station

Confederate Detour

In June 1864, to deny Gen. Robert E. Lee the use of the South Side R.R. and the Richmond and Danville R.R., Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson and Gen. August V. Kautz south of Petersburg ...

Fredericksburg 1778

From September 20 to November 28, 1778 George Washington, his generals and army of 13,000 were located in or around Fredericksburg, with the John Kane house serving as headquarters. From here emanated George Washington’s strategy of “observing and containing” the ...

173d Airborne Brigade (Sep)

1963 - 1971

In commemoration of all Sky Soldiers whose valor and sacrifice in defense of South Vietnam must never be forgotten.

"All gave some - Some gave all"

[Renderings of military insignia:]

Combat Infantryman Badge -

173rd Airborne Bde. -

Paratrooper ...

Caesar’s Invasion of Britain

The first Roman invasion of Britain led by Julius Caesar landed near here LV BC.

Marker can be reached from The Beach north of Cambridge Road.

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The Great Barbecue

A section of the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War was stationed on the western slopes of Quaker Hill from September 16, to November 28, 1778.

The Great Barbecue Barbecue

Occurred on the hillside across this road.

October 17, 1778

It ...

Enoch Crosby

American spy, taken with

recruits for British Army,

confined here after mock

trial by Committee of Safety

was allowed to escape.

Marker is on Main Street (New York Route 52), on the right when traveling west.

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New Haven Common Burial Ground

From the settlement of New Haven

1638 to 1796

the adjoining ground was occupied

as a common place of burial.

Then a new burying ground was opened

and divided into family lots

and city squares.

In 1813 this church was placed

over the monuments of several

whose names are ...

Blackman-Bosworth Store

The Blackman-Bosworth Store building was built 1827-28 by David Blackman on lot #14. It originally stood next to the James Westfall log house that had been used as an early courthouse. Slaves built the store building, supervised by bricklayer J.W. ...

Blackman-Strader

Judson Blackman, son of businessman David Blackman who owned the store across the street, started construction on this brick home in 1861, but it was not completed until after the Civil War. The brick for the house was made on ...

Old Stockbridge Grist Mill

In 1640 Isaac Stedman dammed up First Herring Brook and beside the pond thus formed, constructed the first water driven grist mill in the old colony. The mill owned and operated by the Stockbridge and Clapp families until 1922 was ...