Memorializing Jackson's Death

The Battle of Chancellorsville

Of his soldiers he was the idol;

of his country he was the hope;

of war he was the master.

Senator John Warwick Daniel

When General "Stonewall" Jackson died eight days after being wounded in these woods, shock waves rippled through ...

Scientific Research

World War II

Before the United States entered World War II, German U-boats again inflicted death and destruction on the seas by sinking Allied ships as they had in World War I. In January 1942, the month after the United States ...

A Missed Opportunity

The Battle of Chancellorsville

The morning of May 3d found the Confederate army heavily outnumbered and dangerously divided. "Stonewall" Jackson's flank attack the evening before had staggered the Union army but had not irretrievably damaged it. As the day broke, Jackson's ...

King’s Road / Chew’s Landing Road

King’s Road

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Laid out in 1681 over a portion

of the trail of the

Lenni Lenape Indians running from

Perth Amboy to Salem.

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Chew’s Landing Road

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Used by the

early New Jersey colonists.

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This stone commemorates

the spirit of humanity and

kindness existing between the

colonists of New Jersey

and the

Unalachtigo ...

Archibald Rutledge Birthplace

Side A

Archibald Hamilton Rutledge (1883-1973), educator, man of letters, and the first poet laureate of S.C., was born at this site, in a house known to the Rutledge family as "Summer Place." Rutledge, who grew up here and ...

Merchant Marine

The U.S. Merchant Marine played a crucial role in World War II, transporting supplies, ammunition, and troops across the ocean to the battle front. Even before the United States entered the war, the merchant fleet provided much-needed goods to the ...

Key Terrain

The Battle of the Wilderness

The fighting in the Wilderness centered on two thoroughfares: the Orange Turnpike and the Orange Plank Road. Between them yawned a gaping void of dense trees and brush, broken only by a few fields and the ...

15th Indiana Infantry

Wagner's Brigade - Wood's Division

(front)

15th

Regiment

Infantry,

Commanded by

Lieut. Col. Gustavus A. Wood,

21st Brigade--Col. George D. Wagner--

6th Division--Gen. Wood--

Army of the Ohio.

Indiana.

(back)

15th Infantry,

Lieut. Col. Gustavus A. Wood.

This regiment arrived on the battlefield from Savannah, about 12 m., April 7, 1862; was ordered ...

Birthplace of Swine Improvement in America

First Ohio Testing Station 1946

Marker can be reached from South Franklin St..

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Las Vegas Post Office

John Steele, one of the original L. D. S. missionaries, secured a mail grant for the Las Vegas Mission. The documents to establish the Post Office, and, appointing William Bringhurst Postmaster, were brought from Salt Lake City by Benjamin H ...