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In MemoriamU.S.S. MaineDestroyed in Havana HarborFebruary 15th 1898
This tablet is cast from metal recovered from the U.S.S. Maine
In memoriam to Walter S. Sellers, pharmacist, who lost his life in the sinking of the Battleship Maine, Feb. 1…
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Southwest 150 FeetErected 1755-56 byColonel Benjamin ChambersFounder of ChambersburgA two story stone structure surrounded By a moatA stockade manned by two swivel gunsEnclosed the fort, flour mill, sawmill,And dwelling.1984Kittochtinny Historical…
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On March 30, 1734, Benjamin Chambers, a Scots-Irish immigrant and millwright was granted a Blunston License by the Penn family to develop a 400-acre plantation and gristmill for the first Franklin County settlement, named the Falling Spring Settle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC88_the-greatest-sacrifice-prelude-to-gettysburg_Chambersburg-PA.html
The price of war is devastation. Franklin County paid the price when its county seat, Chambersburg, was burned to the ground in 1864. Invaded in 1862, 1863, and 1864 by Confederate forces, Franklin County has the distinction of suffering more Sout…
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The two abolitionists met at a stone quarry here, Aug. 19-21, 1859, and discussed Browns plans to raid the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He urged Douglass to join an armed demonstration against slavery. Douglass refused, warning the raid would…
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During the Gettysburg campaign, Confederate troops were restrained, under orders, from destroying non-government property. By the time of the Rebels' next raid into the North, however, the policy had changed.
On July 30, 1864, Brigadier Genera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC5S_abolitionist-john-brown-boards-in-chambersburg_Chambersburg-PA.html
Preparing for the raid on Harpers Ferry arsenal, John Brown came to Chambersburg in the summer of 1859 wearing a beard as a disguise and using the alias of Isaac Smith. He took up residence at Mary Ritner's boarding house on East King Street, prof…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM93R_franklin-county-world-war-i-memorial_Chambersburg-PA.html
They shall live forevermoreour glorious dead1917 ? ? ? 1919Erected to the memory of the men and women of Franklin County who gave their lives in the World War
"Greater love hath no man than thisthat a man lay down his life for his friends"St. J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM533_messersmiths-woods_Chambersburg-PA.html
Name of grove selected by Gen. R.E. Lee for his headquarters, June 26-30, 1863. Here he issued the order for the concentration of troops near Gettysburg. Site of woods is just south of this point.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM532_first-lutheran-church_Chambersburg-PA.html
This church, the third building, stands on the site of a log church built in 1780 by the Lutheran and Reformed and used jointly by the congregations till 1808. The land was granted by Benjamin Chambers.