Encampment of Coxey's Army (1894)

In the wake of the economic "Panic of 1893", social reformer Jacob Coxey and his "Army of the Commonwealth," consisting of approximately 500 unemployed workers, marched from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate at the Capitol for unemployment relief. Following ...

108th New York Infantry

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

(Front and around the last step):108th N.Y. Infty

2nd Brig. 3rd Div. 2nd Corps

July 2 & 3. 1863

(Back):108th N.Y. InftyOccupied this position July 2 & 3 1863, supporting Battery I, 1 U.S. Art. during the artillery ...

The Battle of Bladensburg (1814)

The War of 1812

On August 24, 1814, British forces broke camp at Melwood Park and moved northwest to Bladensburg. The Baltimore militia, under the command of General Tobias Sansbury, was positioned west of the Anacostia River along the Bladensburg-Washington Road ...

Lafayette

On March 4-5, 1825, was guest of Fayetteville (named for him 1783), staying at home of Duncan McRae, on site of present courthouse.

Marker is at the intersection of Gillespie Street and Franklin Street, on the right when traveling south on ...

160th Anniversary of St. Peter’s

This tablet is placed

by

Pierre VanCortlandt Chapter,

Daughters of

the American Revolution,

on the 160th Anniversary of

the erection of this church

to commemorate the fact that

George Washington

worshipped in this building

and as a tribute to

the memory of

Lt. Gov. Pierre VanCortlandt

a pioneer member of

this parish

who became a

church ...

Site of McLaurin Massacre

(Last Indian Raid in Frio Canyon)

On April 19, 1881, Catherine "Kate" Ringer McLaurin (Sometimes McLauren) was with her three small children and 14-year old Allen Lease in the garden when a band of Lipan Apaches started to plunder her home. ...

Lincoln Knob Creek Farm

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

lived on this 228 acre farm,

1811-1816. He wrote in 1860

"My earliest recollection is

of the Knob Creek place."

A younger brother was born here.

Marker is on Bardstown Road (U.S. 31E).

Courtesy hmdb.org

French Soldiers of the Revolutionary War

We remember

these French Soldiers who gave

their lives for our independence

in our old St. Peter’s building

years 1781 – 1782

Lieutenant de Mauvis • Jean Bonnair • Jean Joseph Paquay • Alexis Labrue • Joseph Duguin • Georges Mochl • Claude-Pierre Dumageot • ...

The Impregnable Fortress

You are now at the western end of Fort Mulligan. The acute angles at this end of the works were clearly designed to be occupied by several artillery pieces to fend off attacks from the Seneca Road and the ravine ...

Gun Shop & Forge

Iron works set up four mi. W. by Philip Sitton after 1804. Source for manufacture of rifles by Philip Gillespie. Both operated to 1860s.

Marker is at the intersection of South Mills River Road (County Route 1338) and Boylston Highway ...