Ambush at Half-Way Swamp

During the American Revolution, December 1780, over 750 recently arrived British fusiliers were marching from Nelson’s Ferry on the Santee River. Major McLeroth’s British troops from Moncks Corner joined them as an escort to Camden. General Marion’s Brigade was hiding ...

Builder of the Nation

This steam locomotive was presented to the City of Winder and Barrow County in 1959 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company. It was placed here as a permanent exhibit in memory of the important service engines of this type ...

Big Bull Falls • Birthplace of Wausau

In the early 1800s, timber supplies were coming to an end in the eastern United States. The Westward Expansion—the settlement of the prairies and mountainous regions west of the Mississippi—was driving the hunger for more timber with which to build ...

13th New Jersey Infantry

September 17, 1862

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Engaged in this position, facing west, from 11.20 a.m. to about 12 noon.

Marker is on Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

13th New Jersey Infantry

September 17, 1862

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Center of regiment at 10.20 a.m. facing west. Part of the right wing was across the road.

Marker is at the intersection of Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike and Cornfield Avenue, on the right ...

Crisis in Tapp Field

Battle of the Wilderness

Here on the morning of May 6, 1864, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his army faced perhaps their greatest crisis. Soon after dawn, hundreds of disorganized Confederates tumbled from the woods to your left, driven by ...

Widow Tapp’s Field

Battle of the Wilderness

Few families of modest means became so famous. In this field lived widow Catherine Tapp, who with other family members eked out an existence from the poor soil. The Tapps occupied a lopsided log cabin about 300 ...

Ferries In Virginia/TheHatton Ferry/Heritage

Ferries In Virginia

The James, York, Rappahannock and smaller rivers were the primary means of commercial transportation in Virginia until the advent of railroads in the mid-1800’s. In most locations ferries provided the only way to cross these rivers. As early ...

Wisconsin's First Home-Built Flying Machine

On June 23, 1911, near this location, Wausau native John Schwister became a pio­neer of Wisconsin aviation. Research indicates that on this date Schwister flew the state's first home-built airplane capable of sustained, powered flight. Constructed of wooden ribs covered ...

House of Pierre Van Cortlandt

General George Washington

with his aides

slept in this house many nights

while making Peekskill

their headquarters in 1776, 1777 & 1778.

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It was the house of

Pierre Van Cortlandt,

member of Colonial Assembly,

member of the 2nd., 3rd., and 4th.

Provincial Congress,

President of the Committee

of Public Safety,

a framer ...