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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VG_nottoway-river-crossings_Stony-Creek-VA.html
Several important river crossings took placeover the Nottoway River during two wars.Revolutionary War cavalry commander Lt.Col.John Graves Simcoe led British forces acrossthe river in this area on 11 May 1781, as herode south to join Gen. Charles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VF_red-rock-wilderness-overlook-regional-park_Leesburg-VA.html
Red Rock Wilderness Overlook Regional Park is a 67-acre mostly wooded area situated along the Potomac River on the outskirts of Leesburg. Frances Speek donated a portion of the property to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority in 1978. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VE_battle-of-bristoe-station_Bristow-VA.html
In the autumn of 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, with Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill's III Corps in the lead, pursued Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union army as it withdrew towards Washington. On the afternoon of 14 October, Maj. Gen. Go…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VD_pearl-harbor-survivors-association_Annapolis-MD.html
[Front]:To those members of the Armed Forces of the United States who served at Pearl Harbor and other military installations on the island of Oahu during the Japanese attack on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, to perpetuate the memory of those w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VC_big-buckhead-church_Millen-GA.html
This church, near Buckhead Creek, from which it derives its name, was probably organized before the Revolution by Matthew Moore, Baptist minister whose loyalist sympathies led him to leave with the British. Buckhead Church was reconstituted Sept. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VB_brewster-cemetery_Blair-NE.html
Founded in 1870 by Israel Swihart, the cemetery was named for his wife, Mary Brewster Swihart. Those buried here include three civil war veterans, and several children who succumbed to the harsh conditions of life on the Great Plains. The cemetery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4VA_five-rounds-into-the-darkness_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
The 115th New York Regiment, young and inexperienced, formed a skirmish line here. When gunfire erupted on their left during the night, the men of the 115th must have felt the rush of adrenaline through their veins. Dander was headed in their dire…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4V9_queens-bridge_Manville-NJ.html
To the casual observer, there is little to indicate the historical significance of this particular bridge crossing. Yet for at least 240 years it has been an important point in the Raritan Valley and has figured in many events that have transpired…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4V8_battle-of-bound-brook_Manville-NJ.html
At dawn on April 13, 1777 Hessian Captain Ewald's assault over the stone bridge across the Bound Brook was pinned down by "murderous fire" from American soldiers stationed in the Half Moon Battery.
Advancing North along present day Easton Avenu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4V7_british-24-pounder_Annapolis-MD.html
Captured on the British flagship Confiance on Lake Champlain, September 11, 1814, by Commodore Thomas MacDonough.
This gun has a dent on the muzzle from an American shot which caused the gun to recoil and kill the British commander, Downie.