Black Hawk War

Battle Bluff · Battle Hollow · Battle Island

Battle Bluff ? Elv 1139ft

Battle Hollow ?

Severe fighting 1 mile east between Gen. Henry's 300 Ill. militia and 300 Sac Indians Aug. 2 1832.

? Battle Island

Hard fighting opposite. 1200 white soldiers ...

Harriet Jacobs

c.1813~1897

Fugitive slave, writher & abolitionist. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) depicts her early life. Lived in Edenton

Marker is at the intersection of North Broad Street (State Highway 32) and Gale Street, on the right when traveling ...

Butter Factory

First in U.S.-1856

? 200 feet

R. W. Woodhull, Owner

George Gouge, Buttermaker

Marker is at the intersection of NY Rt 207 (New York Route 207) and Maybrook Rd, on the right when traveling east on NY Rt 207.

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Battle of Five Forks

Four miles south is the battlefield of Five Forks. To that point Pickett retired from Dinwiddie Courthouse in the night of March 31, 1865. Sheridan, following, attacked him in the afternoon of April 1, 1865. The Confederates, outnumbered and surrounded, ...

Big Pine Veterans Memorial

Marker 1:

The Big Pine Veterans Memorial was established by the Big Pine Civic Club in the year 2000 to honor all veterans of the Owens Valley. The 80-foot tall pole proudly displays the "Stars and Stripes" with the California State ...

The Battle on the West Bank

Discovering American militia and artillery on the west bank of the Mississippi River, British General Pakenham ordered Lieutenant Colonel William B. Thornton to lead an attack force across the river. Thorton was to capture the American guns and turn them ...

Big Four Depot

Lafayette, Indiana

1902 - Built at Second and South Streets by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad, nicknamed “Big Four” and the lake Erie & Western Railroad; served as a train depot until 1975

1979 - Reopened by City of ...

Five Forks Battlefield

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935.

This site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of the United States.

Marker is on White Oak Road (Virginia Route 613), on the left when ...

The Ambush: August 6, 1777

Sir John Johnson and Joseph Brant prepared an ambush along the military road to Fort Stanwix where it passed through this ravine. When most of the militia had entered their trap, the hidden Mohawk and Seneca warriors attacked. Johnson's Royal ...

The Burial Sites

The Baker-Fancher emigrants buried the bodies of ten men killed during the siege somewhere within the circled wagons of the encampment located west of the current monument in the valley. Most of the Baker-Fancher party died at various locations northeast ...