107th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry

The

107th Regiment

Pennsylvania Infantry

occupied this position

during a part of July 2nd 1863.

Went into action July 1st

with 255 officers and men

lost during the three days

in killed wounded and missing

165 officers

and men.

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

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 ...

Independence

Side A:

Independence, famed "City of the Trails," was for two decades the starting point of the great western trade and travel routes to Santa Fe, Oregon, and California. Settled mainly by Southerners on land ceded the U.S. by the ...

Camp Blair

During the the American Civil War (1861-1865) one of Michigan's military headquarters was In Jackson. Camp Blair was planned 1863 as a draft rendezvous point and as a center for convalescing troops. Named for incumbent governor Austin Blair, a Jackson ...

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 ...

Union Hospital

Field hospital of the

XX Corps during the

Battle of Bentonville

was located here.

Four hundred Union

soldiers, wounded in

the Battle of Averas-

boro (16 miles west) on

March 16, were brought

here for treatment.

Marker is at the ...

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 ...

Jacksonburg Public Square

On March 30, 1830, a commission appointed to choose Jackson County's seat of government reported: "A territorial road, call the St. Joseph's road, was last winter laid.... Where this road crosses the Grand river... a flourishing village is commenced." Named ...

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 ...