Van Wyck Homestead Museum

From 1776-1783, this house was the center of the Fishkill Supply Depot, which also included barracks for 2,000 men. General Israel Putnam occasionally headquartered here. Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

Marker can be reached from U.S. 9 near Interstate 84, on the ...

Second Battle of Independence

October 1864

After heavy fighting at the Little Blue River on the 21st, Price's Confederate army forced Blunt's cavalry to retreat to the Big Blue River, leaving a rear guard in town. Shelby's Confederates reached town in the late afternoon. After ...

Confederate Cemetery

In this lonely spot lie the mortal remains of more than 100 unknown soldiers of the Confederacy. Most of them were wounded while heroically defending the City of Atlanta against overwhelming forces of General Sherman, and died in an improvised ...

Great Indian Warrior Trading Path

The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, Ga. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA, & VA ...

Stoneman’s Raid

On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman’s U.S. cavalry passed through Mount Airy, April 2-3, 1865.

Marker is on Rockford Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Battle of Port Royal Island

Near the old halfway house, in the

vicinity of Grays Hill, on February

3, 1779, a force of South Carolina

Militia, Continentals, and

volunteers, including men from

Beaufort, under General William

Moultrie, defeated the British in

their attempt to capture Port

Royal Island.

Marker is on Trask Parkway ...

Rhett’s Brigade

The brigade of Colonel

A.M. Rhett was repulsed

300 yds. W. on March 16,

1865, by Union troops

under Col. Henry Case.

Marker is on Burnett Road (North Carolina Route 82), on the right when traveling south.

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Battle of Milliken’s Bend

At daybreak on June 7, 1863, Gen. H. E. McCulloch led his Texas Brigade against the Union force which guarded the Union supply depot at Milliken’s Bend. In the savage fighting which ensued, the Confederates drove the Federals from their ...

Van Wyck Homestead

1732

Supply depot for Continental

Army in Rev. War.

Used as officers Headquarters

1776 - 1783

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 9 and Interstate 84, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 9.

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Douglas Southall Freeman

Born at 416 Main Street on 16 May 1886, the son of a Confederate veteran, Douglas Southall Freeman moved with his family to Richmond three years later. He graduated from the University of Richmond in 1904 and earned a doctorate ...