Historical Marker Search

You searched for Postal Code: 05760

Page 2 of 3 — Showing results 11 to 20 of 22
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCS6_german-hut-1777_Orwell-VT.html
"Our men built huts out of boards to protect themselves from the cold weather." - Lt. Von Hille, October 22, 1777 During the American occupation from July 1776 to July 1777, soldiers constructed a breastwork of logs and stone along the top of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCQK_storehouse-1776_Orwell-VT.html
"ordered a large Stoer House to be built." - Col. Jeduthan Baldwin, August 17, 1776 At least one of the storehouses constructed on Mount Independence during the Revolution stood in this area. Portions of the remaining stone foundations are dis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPQ_british-blockhouse-1777_Orwell-VT.html
"Blockhouses, none of them finished." - Lt. John Starke, Royal Navy, September 1777 After the British captured Mount Independence on July 6, 1777, their military engineers decided to build six new blockhouses to augment American-built defense…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPF_american-blockhouse-1777_Orwell-VT.html
"I have also provided timber for two Blockhouses." - Col. Anthony Wayne, February 4, 1777 In the summer and fall of 1776 American forces concentrated on fortifying the northern point of the rocky Mount Independence peninsula, in anticipation o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPD_general-hospital-1777_Orwell-VT.html
" . . . the new Hospital . . . 250 long & 24 wide."- Rev. Enos Hitchcock, June 14, 1777 This shallow, dry-laid stone foundation was for the largest building at Mount Independence - a 250-foot long by 24-foot wide, two-story, wood frame General …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPC_third-brigade-encampment-1776_Orwell-VT.html
" . . . our Men is clearing the Encamping Ground over the Lake."- Sgt. Timothy Tuttle, July 23, 1776 In July 1776 Northern Army commander Gen. Horatio Gates organized regiments at Mount Independence and Ticonderoga into four brigades. Each brig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBP5_officers-quarters-1776_Orwell-VT.html
" . . . some of the officers have good framed houses." - Dr. Lewis Beebe, September 30, 1776 This fifteen-foot square, well-defined stone foundation may be the remains of quarters for one or more American officers in the Second Brigade, a unit …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBOR_burial-site_Orwell-VT.html
" . . . this Day there was two men Buried from our Regt." - Lt. Jonathan Burton, October 4, 1776 This small stone, engraved "N. Richardson of Staddard Eng died 1760," may mark the only identified grave on Mount Independence. Research has yet to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBOO_fort-ticonderoga-and-mount-defiance_Orwell-VT.html
" . . . a perfect mousetrap." - Col. Alexander Scammell,September 21, 1777From here are seen nearly all the powerful forces of nature that made this spot on Lake Champlain the Gibraltar of the North as well as its Achilles heel during the America…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5WX_mount-independence_Orwell-VT.html
Fortification was begun in June of 1776, and the name Mount Independence was bestowed following the Declaration of Independence. Lieut. Col. Jeduthan Baldwin was the chief construction engineer. Here the exhausted American Army, Northern Departmen…
PAGE 2 OF 3