Cameron's Depot Engagement

"What news now?"

(Preface):

The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan took command in August, defeated Early ...

Cameron Building Site

In1852 the Cameron Bros. built a 2 story building. Madam La Batcheler purchased it in 1853 and operated the Golden Gate Saloon. Later known as the Polka Saloon, by 1855, the town lodges of ECV, Masons and Son of Temperance ...

National Historic Landmark-Simon Cameron House

National Historic Landmark- Simon Cameron House

From 1863 until his death, this was the residence of Simon Cameron (1799-1889), who served as U.S. Senator, Secretary of War under Lincoln, and Minister to Russia.

Cameron is acknowledged as the master spoilsman who ...

Cameron

Originally Tanner's Crossing

Named for one of Arizona's first U.S. Senators. A pioneer in development of trails and copper mines in Grand Canyon. Near here was the site of Tanner's Crossing of the Little Colorado River on the Mormon Trail from ...

James Cameron

Pioneer, woodsman, farmer,

Justice of the Peace,

Settled in this Valley

in 1773. Buried 100

feet west of this marker.

Marker is on Stony Creek Road 2.5 miles west of the end of state route 418, on the right when ...

The Cameron Valley

Early Industrial Development in Western Alexandria

The area west of the Mill Race complex once was a sloping meadow through which ran the meandering tail race of the Cameron Mills. The mill site itself was located beneath what is now the ...

Colonel Cameron

of the 79th New York Regiment was killed here on July 21, 1861.

Battle of First Manassas

(Bull Run)

Marker can be reached from Sudley Road (State Road 234) 0.4 miles south of Lee Highway (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling north. ...

Simon Cameron School

Although Harrisburg's northern boundary when incorporated as a city in 1860 reached as far as Maclay Street, it would not be until the early 1890's that development widely occurred above Reily Street. Local homebuilder Benjamin Engle launched the first major ...

John Harris/Simon Cameron Mansion

Here is situated the stone residence of John Harris, Jr. (1727-1791), the founder of Harrisburg, which he erected at the end of the French and Indian War in 1766. In 1785, the Borough of Harrisburg was laid out in the ...

J. Donald Cameron

(1833 - 1918)

U.S. Senator, 1877-97. Secretary of War under Ulysses Grant, 1876-77. President, Northern Central R.R., 1863-74. Son of Simon Cameron. His mansion here, acquired 1870, had many visitors and was the scene of major political and business decisions.

Marker is ...