Federal Artillery

Union batteries (26

guns) formed a line

here, March 19. These

guns covered retreating

Federals during the

Confederate charges

and finally halted

the advance of the

Confederate Right Wing.

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

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Fred'ck Staring

Fred'ck Staring

Known as Frederick Starns

on VA Frontier; Lost sons &

grandsons in Revolutionary War

1777-80; Patriarch of old

Southern family Starn(e)s

Marker is on Park Place west of Park Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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Battle of Appomattox Station

Lee's Retreat

April 8, 1865

Union cavalry arrived early in the evening and captured three of Lee’s four supply trains. Advancing toward Appomattox Court House, they encountered the surplus Confederate wagons and artillery train. After a brief conflict, numerous wagons ...

Furman University

This plaque commemorates the 50th anniversary of Furman University's relocation from this site to the current campus north of Greenville on Poinsett Highway. From 1851 to 1958, Furman University was located atop this bluff above the Reedy River Falls, and ...

Federal Earthworks

Constructed by First

Michigan Engineers and

others, March 19, 1865.

Occupied by Federals

throughout the battle.

Works begin 75 yards

behind this marker.

Marker is on Mill Creek Church Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Founding of Nashville

On Monday, April 24, 1780, two pioneers, James Robertson and John Donelson, shook hands upon the completion of a reunion at the site on which you now stand.

Each man, one by land, the other by water, played out in a ...

The First Telegraph Line (1844)

In 1844, the first magnetic telegraph line was being constructed between Washington and Baltimore by its inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse. The line followed the railroad tracks from Washington, through Bladensburg, and on to Baltimore. Congress had appropriated $30,000 in ...

Site of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Hempst

Erected Oct. 1925

Site of the

First Reformed

Protestant Dutch

Church

of New Hempstead

Organized Jan. 12, 1750

First consistory Chosen Apr. 22 1750

First Stone Laid Jun. 11 1751

Dedicated Sep. 8 1751

Rebuilt in 1826

Name changed to

First Reformed

Protestant Dutch Church

in Clarkstown May 6 1840

Building destroyed ...

Grand Army of the Republic

Albert Woolson

(Front):Memorial to the

Grand Army of the Republic

(Left):Senior Vice Commander in Chief

of the G.A.R.

Albert Woolson of Duluth, Minnesota

the last survivor

(Right):Dedicated on September 12, 1956

by National Auxiliary to

Sons of Union Veterans

of the Civil War 1861-1865

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the ...

Confederate Cemetery

The remains of 360

Confederates who fell

in the Battle of

Bentonville lie here.

They were moved to

this plot from other

parts of the battle-

field in 1893. the

monument was erected

at that time.

Marker is on Harper House Road east of Mill Creek Church Road, on the ...