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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y8_setting-the-trap-jackson-arrives_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
(Upper Panel): Setting the TrapConfederate Major General "Stonewall" Jackson faced three enemies - the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, its formidable position on Bolivar Heights, and time. On the second day of the battle, although pummeled by a C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y7_flag-talk_Millville-WV.html
Accurate communication was crucial to winning the Battle of Harpers Ferry. Rivers, mountains, and miles of distance separated Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson from his mountaintop commanders. With telegraph messaging impossible and courier …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y6_battle-of-harpers-ferry_Millville-WV.html
Invasion rocked the United States during the second year of the American Civil War. In September 1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee launched his army into Maryland - the North. Lee's first target became Harpers Ferry. He ordered "Stonewall" Ja…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y5_edmundsbury_Green-Pond-SC.html
A brick Chapel of Ease for St. Bartholomew's Parish was built here in 1785 in a town laid out in 1740 and named for Landgrave Edmund Bellinger. The vestry reported the chapel unfit for use in 1786, and in 1810 it fell in ruins. A new chapel was bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y4_zabriskie-christie-house_Haworth-NJ.html
Built 1818 by Garret H. Zabriskie on land his father Henry purchased in the 18th century. Garret farm consisted of 219 acres. It began on Schraalenburg Road and ran westward for one mile. Later owned by son John G. Zabriskie who sold it to his gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y3_abraham-d-blauvelt-homestead_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
The house and the kitchen wing were built about 1801 by Abraham D. Blauvelt who farmed the land. It came into possession of his niece, Catherine Blauvelt, wife of Richard J. Blauvelt, and remained in the family until 1891. In 1904 Herman Steinhoff…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y2_blanch-haring-house_Harrington-Park-NJ.html
Homestead of Isaac Blanch from about 1758 and site of his grist mill, both inherited in 1767 from his father, Richard Blanch, a native of England. Isaac was a Patriot official and member of the State Assembly during the Revolutionary War. He was t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y1_hilderbrant-naugle-house_Closter-NJ.html
Built in 1871 for Hilderbrant Naugle on a suburban lot near the Closter R.R. depot, the frame gable-front-and wing house is notable for the ornamental scroll work of Gothic design. Naugle was a carpenter and clockmaker who made improvements to his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Y0_battle-of-parkers-ferry_Closter-SC.html
Sent to intercept a raid by 540 Hessians, British, and Tories, General Francis Marion with a force of 400 men on August 30, 1781 set up an ambuscade along this road about 1 mile from the ferry. The enemy advancing along the narrow causeway were su…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4XZ_reformed-church-of-closter_Closter-NJ.html
Established as the "Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Closter City", it was the first church erected in the Borough of Closter. Dedicated October 7, 1862, tradition says the church was the headquarters of the "Harrington Rifles", a group of chur…