This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road

Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route. Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the Village of Rye.

Remove not ...

Battle of Santa Clara

On January 2, 1847, somewhere hereabouts was fought the last northern battle of the Mexican War. The official casualty report: “Dead none, Wounded none, Missing but one on the American side and he came up shortly afterwards stating that he ...

The Stratford Cliffs

Approximately 17 million years ago, during the Miocene Epoch, these 150-foot-high cliffs along the Potomac River formed the ancient seashore. Rich Miocene fossil deposits, which exist in the 1 1/2 -mile-long series of Horsehead, Stratford and Nomini Cliffs, can only ...

First Blood in Saunders Field

The Battle of the Wilderness

"The regiment melted away like snow. Men disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them."

-Captain Porter Parley

140th New York Infantry

Shortly after noon on May 5, the battleline of the 140th New York burst from the woods ...

Site of First Wendy's Restaurant

Dave Thomas realized his boyhood dream when he opened his first hamburger restaurant on this site on November 15, 1969. Thomas changed the image of fast food by serving fresh, not frozen hamburgers, hot off the grill with a choice ...

Site of Rose Hill

Estate of General Horatio Gates (1728-1806) • Victor of the Battle of Saratoga 1777

Major General Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko (1746-1817)

Colonel of Engineers in the Continental Army (1776-1784) - designer of the fortifications at West Point - veteran of the Northern and the ...

Church of the Holy Cross

The National Register

of Historic Places

South Carolina

Department of Archives

And History

Church Of The

Holy Cross

Marker is on North Kings Highway (South Carolina Route 261), on the right when traveling north.

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Ancient Indian Fishing Grounds

Wyam Falls

Before a network of dams controlled the Columbia River it was a raging torrent. Here at Wyam Falls, known today as Celilo Falls, a vertical drop of more than 20 feet and sheer basalt bluffs on either shore forced ...

93rd New York Infantry

(Front):93d

New York

Infantry.

Head-quarter Guard,

Army of the Potomac,

July 2d and 3d, 1863.

(Back):Mustered in Nov. 7th, 1861.

Mustered out June 29th, 1865.

Battles,

While in 2d. Brig, 3d. Div, 2d. Corps,

Wilderness - Petersburg

Spottsylvania - Deep Bottom

Po River - Poplar Spring Church

North Anna - Boydton Road

Cold Harbor ...

Father Rocco Petrarca

The Italian Community gratefully remembers

Father Rocco Petrarca

Pastor of

St. John the Baptist Church

from 1913 to 1948

“Flos Memoriae Lapide Perennior”

Marker is at the intersection of Hamlet Street and Cedar Alley, on the left when traveling south on Hamlet Street.

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