History of Shanesville

1814 • 100 lots recorded as laid out by

Abraham Shane with “ten perches for a

public square and street.”

1820 • Lutheran Church began with

Rev. Abraham Snyder

1821 • First Reformed Church of Shanesville

organized by Rev. William Reiter

1840 • Shanesville trading point

and out-post ...

Marsh's Brigade

McClernand's Division

U.S.

45th Ill., 48th Ill., 20th Ill., 11th Ill.,

Marsh's (2d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This brigade, with its regiments in order from left to right as above, was engaged here at 4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862. The left ...

The "Richmond 34"

On February 22, 1960 Thirty-four Virginia Union University students staged a sit-in protest against segregation in the restaurants of Thalhimers department store, which stood on this site. Richmond city police arrested the students for trespassing, marking one of the first ...

Flame of Freedom

Honoring all those who serve,

past, present, and future

Thank you for your service.

May 17, 2008

[Originally installed May 30, 1969]

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Ohio Route 39) and Mill Street (Ohio Route 93), on the right when traveling east ...

Old St. Mary's Church

Here have I stood these hundred years

Asking the busy passer-by

Whether he carries - even as I -

Christ in his heart

Centennial of Old Saint Mary's 1946

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Erected in 1846 and designated in 1970

as a ...

Prescott’s Headquarters

In this house

the British General Prescott

was taken prisoner

on the night of July 9, 1777

by Lieutenant-Colonel Barton

of the Rhode Island Line.

Marker is on West Main Road (Rhode Island Route 114), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Huntington’s Brigade

Occupied this ground

Marker is on Camp Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Girardey's Georgia Battery

Jackson's Brigade -- Withers' Division -- Bragg's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi

Girardey's Georgia Battery,

Jackson's (3d) Brigade, Withers' (2d) Division,

Bragg's Corps.

This battery was engaged here April 7, 1862 at about 10 A.M., in an artillery duel ...

The Samuel Wainwright House

CA 1760

This advertisement appeared in the S.C. Gazette on 6th Jan., 1784, following Mr. Wainwright's death

"On WEDNESDAY the 28th of JANUARY in§t. WILL BE SOLD by Order of the Hon. Cornelius Dupont, E§q.

that capital and well known ...

Varnum’s Brigade

Continental Army

Division

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Varnum’s Brigade

Brig. General James M. Varnum

commanding

1st Regiment Rhode Island Infantry Col. Christopher Greene

2nd Regiment Rhode Island Infantry Col. Israel Angell

4th Regiment Connecticut Infantry Col. John Durkee

8th Regiment Connecticut Infantry Col. John Chandler

Marker is on Valley Forge Park Road ...