Crawford Park

Crawford Park

A Gift to the Community

This 35.6-acre park was once the estate of Edna Everett Crawford. The Crawfords always opened their home to guests and allowed neighborhood children to play on their many fields. It was Mrs. Crawford's ...

The Indian Wars

1790 - 1795

When American Pioneers attempted to settle the area north and west of the Ohio River, following the Ordinance of 1787,the Indians aided by the British in Canada, fought valiantly and fiercely for their homes in the Ohio Country. ...

Greenwich Ninth District Veterans Memorial

Erected In Memory Of The

Men From The Ninth District

Greenwich, Connecticut

Who Served In The Armed

Forces And Paid The Supreme

Sacrifice For Their Country

Anthony J. Balco • Joseph T. Borowiec • Domenico S. Crucitti • Harold A. Granholm • John T. ...

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company

The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad (RF&P) ran from Richmond to Washington, D.C. With only 113 miles of track, it was one of the shortest in the nation but it was the link between the North and the South. Train ...

Defending From Land Assault

Think about how difficult a land attack against Fort Adams would be. First, you would have to capture the Redoubt, located a quarter mile to the south. You would then have to charge up the sloping glacis to the Southern ...

County Commissioners Court

Texas Confederate

Composed of a chief justice (now county judge) and four county commissioners, these elected governing boards directed vital Civil War programs. Provided arms, clothing, horses and saddles for troops from county. Gave aid to wartime factories. Obtained and distributed ...

Site: Marcus Long House

Near here stood the antebellum, one-story farm house of Marcus Long, a Confederate soldier who fell on a Virginia battlefield.

The house, cited several times in Official Records, was a prominent landmark in movements of the Federal 4th and 23rd Corps ...

Aliquippa Works

Aliquippa Works of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. production commenced in 1909 at this plant once the largest integrated steel plant. Over 14000 persons were employed here. Collective bargaining under the Wagner Act began here in 1937 as a result ...

Greersburg Academy

Established with funds collected by Rev. Thomas E. Hughes erected 1802 chartered 1806 by the Pennsylvania State Legislature as Greersburg Academy ratifying it the first academy west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Marker is on Market Street (Pennsylvania Route 551) 0 miles ...

Ohio Artillery

Ohio Artillery.

Nov. 23-25, 1863.During the engagements, the Ohio Batteries operated as indicated below:

Battery A Capt. Wilbur F. Goodspeed / Guarding fords of the Tennessee River.

Battery B Lieut. Norman A. Baldwin / Supporting General Sherman's crossing.

Battery C Capt. Marco B. Gary ...