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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZ_new-central-restaurant_Charles-Town-WV.html
Washington Hall, the building in which this restaurant is located, was destroyed by fire started by Union soldiers in the Civil War. It was restored by the people of Charles Town in 1874. The first floor was used as a market house from the time th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNY_charles-town-post-office_Charles-Town-WV.html
On the site of this Post Office stood the Jefferson County Jail where John Brown and his fellow prisoners were confined after their raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859.
After court trial John Brown was taken from the Jail here to his death on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNX_ruins-of-st-georges-chapel_Charles-Town-WV.html
This chapel was built by devout people of (then) Frederick Parish. Frederick County, Virginia joined Col. Robert Worthington in completing it in 1769. It was first called the English Church, then Berkeley Church, then Norborne Chapel, as the paris…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNP_the-james-rumsey-bridge_Gainesville-WV.html
Named in honor of the inventor, James Rumsey, who made successful demonstrations of his steamboat on the Potomac River here on December 3 and 11, 1787. Opened and dedicated on July 15, 1939.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8_the-moler-family_Harpers-Ferry-WV.html
The Moler Family of Jefferson County, West Virginia.
In this cemetery are buried George Adam Moler (1714-1783) and his wife Eve. George Adam Moler came to American on Aug. 29, 1730 with his father Ludwig Mohler, settling first in Lancaster, Pen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM7_118th-pennsylvania-infantry_Shepherdstown-WV.html
118th Pennsylvania Infantry(Corn Exchange Regiment)Colonel Charles M. Prevost, Commanding (September 20, 1862) The 118th Pennsylvania Infantry (737 officers and men) crossed the river by the Ford south of this and was ordered into position on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6_barnes-brigade_Shepherdstown-WV.html
Barnes' Brigade Col. James Barnes, 18th Massachusetts Infantry, Commanding Organization 2d Maine, 18th and 22d Massachusetts, 1st Michigan, 13th and 25th New York, 118th Pennsylvania Infantry, 2d Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters(September 20, 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM2_1862-antietam-campaign_Shepherdstown-WV.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM1_a-p-hills-march_Shepherdstown-WV.html
About two o'clock in the afternoon of September 17, 1862, Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill's 3,000-man division began crossing the Potomac River at Boteler's Ford about two miles northwest of here, en route to the battle raging at Antietam Creek near Sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLY_botelers-ford-tablet-b-f-3_Shepherdstown-WV.html
(September 20, 1862) Early in the morning of September 20, movements were made by General McClellan to ascertain the position of the Army of Northern Virginia. Maj. Charles S. Lovell's Brigade (1st and 6th, 2d and 10th, the 11th and 17th U. S. Inf…