British Strategy

Major general Edward Pakenham’s final plan was to charge Major General Jackson’s position before daylight, to reduce the effectiveness of American artillery fire. The plan was complicated and depended on split-second timing and coordination.

The British attack force was divided into ...

Mrs. Martha McFarlane McGee-Bell

1735 - 1820

Loyal Whig – Enthusiastic Patriot

Revolutionary Heroine

We are indebted to E. W. Caruthers

for the eventfull story of her life.

Marker is on Old Battleground Road 0.2 miles south of New Garden Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Brassfield Station

A Path Both Traveled

(Preface): The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ...

Fire House Number 2

Fort Hancock’s soldiers doubled as firefighters. This firehouse was built close to Barracks Row so the soldiers who lived there could quickly get to the fire fighting equipment.

Fort Hancock was in operation from 1895 to 1974.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Alessandro Fabbri, Lieutenant, U.S.N.R.F.

1877 - 1922

A resident and lover of Mount Desert Island who commanded the United States Naval Radio Station upon this site from its establishment on August 28, 1917 until December 12, 1919.

At the end of the World War he was ...

Robert Edwin Peary

Discoverer of the North Pole - April 6, 1909

Rear Admiral, USN; Civil Engineer, Explorer, Scientist

(1856-1920)

Invenium Viam Avt Facium

Erected by the National Geographic Society.

Dedicated April 6, 1922, by the President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States, ...

Broadhead Massacre

Around the spring nearby, was perpetrated, on April 20, 1781, the massacre of 20 Indians by Col. Daniel Broadhead's army of 300. This slaying was committed following destruction, the same day, of the two villages, Goschachgunk, (Coshocton) and Indaochaic, formerly ...

Brig. Gen. Edward Stevens

On this spot

Brig. Gen. Edward Stevens

was wounded while making a

gallant stand with his

Virginia Troops

Marker is on Guilford Courthouse Auto Tour Road, on the left when traveling west.

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Kindergarten Building

This structure was built in 1940 by Henry Ford to serve as a kindergarten for the children of Ways Station-Richmond Hill during the Ford era. The building included a kitchen and two large classrooms to accommodate children aged three years ...

Gunning Bedford, Jr.

1747-1812. Member of Continental Congress and of Annapolis Convention. A framer of United States Constitution, which Delaware was first to ratify. Appointed First District Judge of Delaware by President Washington. Purchased this property 1793 as country home, naming it "Lombardy". ...