Sons of the American Revolution
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Site of the home ofLt. and Mrs. Robert Wilson
Gen. and Mrs. George Washingtonwere entertained here in November 1780and at other times while the armieswere encamped at Morristown
Site marked in 1964 byGen. William Maxwell Chapter, D.A.R.Peggy Warne Cha…
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(obverse)Patriot Helmont Kellogg was born on March 17, 1762 in New Hartford, Connecticut.
Helmont served four different hitches in the Connecticut Militia during the Revolution; as a drummer in 1777 in Colonel Adam's Regiment; for six months in Colonel E…
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Resting in this cemetery is a Militia veteran who fought in the American Revolutionary War of 1776-1783. In the last years of his life, he moved to Wisconsin and helped found what is now known as the Union Grove Congregational Church. He served as the churc…
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This site was within the stockade ofFort Daytonwhich stood on a slight eminence aboutone hundred yards farther north.The fort was erected by Col. Elias Daytonin 1776, served as a military base duringthe Revolutionary War, and finally in 1781,became the most…
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Fauquier County, VirginiaOfficers of the Culpeper Minute BattalionAt the Battle of Great Bridge
Major Thomas Marshall (1730-1802)Member, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Virginia ConventionsColonel, 3rd Virginia RegimentColonel, Virginia Sate Artillery RegimentMember…
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Near this spot the men and women of Providence showed their resistance to the unfair taxation by burning British Taxed tea in the night March 2nd 1775
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Dedicated to the many veterans who sacrificed for the freedoms we enjoy today.
Flags have traditionally been symbols of persons united in some common association or effort. Within the American heritage, there have been many diverse interests and transito…
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European interest was first represented in the "New World" by the Viking Banner of Leif Ericson and other intrepid Norse adventurers. This banner, according to tradition, made its way to Iceland, Greenland and presumably North America about the year 1000.
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In 1603, St. George's Cross was joined with St. Andrew's Cross, the Scottish Flag, to form the famous Union Flag or "Union Jack" of Great Britain. It was this flag which flew over the first British colonies in North America at Jamestown (1607) and Plymouth …
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During the 1700's, the political and economic interests of the colonists began to enlarge and disputes began to develop with Great Britain. After the defeat of the French and their expulsion in 1763, the colonists could focus even more of their attention on…