Helm American Legion Post 182 Veterans Memorial

In tribute to all veterans who

so loyally served their country

Flag flying today in memory of

____________

and these men who gave their lives

in service of their country

World War II

Albertson, Henry • Bazin, Lawrence

Blessant, Lewis • Blackett, George

Blackett, William • Bolser, Myron

Chapman, Lloyd ...

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 ...

Old Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church

Dedicated Year 1767

Services in this building were attended by General George Washington at times when he stayed nearby. This building was also used as an Army Hospital by French General Rochambeau before and after The Battle of Yorktown Virginia 1781-2.

This ...

City Point and Hopewell

City Point is five miles northeast. There Governor Sir Thomas Dale made a settlement in 1613. In April, 1781, the British General Phillips landed there. Grant had his base of operations there in the siege of Petersburg, 1864-1865. Lincoln was ...

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 Richmond-Petersburg Railroad Bridge

The expansion of railroads in the 1830s fueled the growth of iron works like Tredegar, and by the Civil War, five railroads had come into Richmond. The Richmond-Petersburg was the first railroad bridge in the city. It was built by ...

Rum Point

1 ½

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miles

A landing on Mattawoman Creek used from December, 1861 to March, 1862 to unload supplies for a brigade of New Jersey troops encamped nearby.

Marker is at the intersection of Chicamuxen Road (Maryland Route 224) and Stump Neck Road, on ...

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" ...

Washington Park

Dedicated by Wright Wire Company, 1919, to its employees and their families, for their recreation and pleasure.

George Washington, Father of his country – first President of the United States – traveled over this spot in June 1775 on his ...