Acadian Lights

Mount Desert Island's coastal waters have always held dangers for boats and ships - rocky shoreline, hidden ledges, and small islands that hide in the fog.

Since 1875, Egg Rock Lighthouse perched on the craggy island before you, has helped guide ...

Branford Soldiers Monument

Branford

To Her Brave Sons

Who Fought In The War

Of The Rebellion

1861 – 1865

One Country – One Flag

GAR

1885

[ battle names inscribed on the column ]

Antietam • Fredericksburg • Shiloh • Gettysburg • Vicksburg • Port Hudson • New Berne • Chancellorsville

Marker is ...

Gamble Mansion and Plantation

[Marker Front]:

At the close of the Seminole War in 1842, this frontier was opened to settlement. Major Robert Gamble and other sugar planters soon located along the rich Manatee River valley, and by 1845 a dozen plantations were producing for ...

Reunited Soldiery Monument

(Front):Angel AloftSpirit of eternal light

Keep silent vigil o'er the brave

The untarnished blue.

The unsullied gray.

In peace and love unite.

Proud heroes have fallen

And over their grave

Our hearts are united

Our country to save.

Over the dead the living bend.

And up to their God their ...

Bottom's Bridge

On 20 May 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Union army crossed the Chickahominy River over Bottom's Bridge into Henrico County. Here Maj. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes's Federal corps advanced over the bridge unopposed. As McClellan's army advanced on Richmond, ...

World War I Memorial Trees

On February 20, 1919, a row of memorial trees was planted along the east side of what was then Seminary Street (now Harrison Entrance) on city property fronting two new State Normal School dormitories. These trees were planted in honor ...

Historic Bell From St. Dominic's Church at Iowa Hill

Bell was originally erected

there in 1860. It was place

here in October 1988.

Marker is on Oak Street near Auburn Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Locks on the D&R Canal

Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park

A natural waterway follows the contours of the land over which it flows, the depth of water varies, depending on the quantity and velocity of flow. To maintain the constant depth of water required ...

McClellan's Third Line

Here ran McClellan's third line of defense, May 31 - June 1, 1862. The Confederates, taking the first and second lines on this road, did not reach the third.

Marker is on Old Williamsburg Road 0.1 miles east of Old Drybridge ...

The Reverend Thomas Curtis, D.D.

[East Face]:

Erected

to the Memory

of

The Reverend

Thomas Curtis, D.D.

by his affectionate

and

devoted pupils.

[West Face]:

He was born

May 10, 1797 in the town

of Wisbfach England.

And was lost in the wreck of the

steamer North Carolina,

bound from Baltimore to Norfolk,

Jan'y 29th 1859.

[South Face]:

Our teacher,

ever faithful and affectionate,

one ...