Deep Run Baptist Church

Founded here in 1742, Deep Run Baptist Church was established as an Episcopal chapel. Modeled after St. John's Church in Richmond, it was constructed in 1749 with wooden pegs and beams that remain part of the present structure. During the ...

Third U.S. Infantry

First Brigade - Second Division

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Second Division First Brigade

Third U.S. Infantry

Six Companies

Captain Henry W. Freedly and Captain Richard G. Lay

Commanding

July 2 Arrived in the morning and took position near the line of the Twelfth Corps. The Regiment ...

Shady Grove United Methodist Church

A group of neighbors, meeting in a cooper shop near the present site, organized a church in 1852. With five dollars, they purchased one acre of land from the estate of Thomas Maxwell and erected the first building in 1855. ...

East Haven World War Memorial

East Haven

World War Memorial

Not In Vain They Served

1917

1918

These Gave Their Lives

Harry R. Bartlett

Cortland V. Birdsell

William Corcoran

John B. Healey

John Liedke

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 100) and Hemingway Avenue (Connecticut Route 142), on the right when traveling ...

Airtanker 130 Is Headed West

From this Valley on 17 June 2002, the crew of Tanker 130, Steven Wass, Craig Labare and Michael Davis answered the call to duty and took wing to fight a horrific fire in the Sierras. For their determination and ultimate ...

Second U.S. Infantry

Second Brigade - Second Division

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps

Second Division Second Brigade

Second U.S. Infantry

Six Companies

Major Arthur T. Lee and Captain Samuel A. McKee

commanding

July 2 Arrived in the morning and took position with the Brigade at the right of the Twelfth ...

Charles Frederick Taylor

(Front):Here fell

Charles Frederick Taylor

July 2, 1863

Age 23 years 4 months 26 days

Colonel of "The Bucktails"

First Rifle Regiment P.V.R.C.

Erected by his comrades and friends

1905

(Back):Charles Frederick Taylor

Born February 6 1840

Enrolled May 16 1861

Captain Co. H. 13th Penna. Reserves

First Rifles May 28 1861

Colonel ...

Turnwold Plantation

Here, from 1862 to 1866, Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus", lived and worked as a printer's apprentice on what was probably the only newspaper ever printed on a Southern plantation, "The Countryman," a weekly newspaper edited and published ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this “Corps of discovery” to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisiana territory. ...

East Haven World War II Memorial

1941 1945

East Haven

World War II Memorial

In Loving Memory of Our Sons

Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice

Sisto A. Aldieri • Frederic N. Burdette • John E. Cox • Thomas N. Fenney • Joseph Ferraiolo • Richard J. Fox • Kenneth H. Hall ...