Leslie's Retreat

Feb. 26, 1775

Here, in defiance of King George III, local minutemen hid 17 cannons, and were confronted by 300 British troops under command of Colonel Leslie. The Redcoats were routed, with only Joseph Whicher of Salem being wounded. This was ...

Natives, Explorers, Tobacco and Buccaneers

The Early History of Gloucester Point

“I made a draughte of our river…by us discovered.” Robert Tyndall to Henry, Prince of Wales

In 1600, this tidewater land was part of a vast American Indian empire ruled by the Powhatan nation. English mariner ...

Troy

Added Station

A little over a quarter of a mile to the southwest was a Pony Express Station called Troy. This was due to its close proximity to the town of Troy, Kansas. It was owned and operated by Henry Thompson ...

Frontier Violence During the War of 1812

Front

Tensions between Native Americans and Euro-American settlers remained high on the Ohio frontier during the War of 1812. Grievances mounted rapidly following the removal of the Greentown Delawares to Piqua in the late summer of 1812. On September 10, British-allied ...

Saint Peter's Episcopal Church

Salem, Massachusetts

The first congregation of the Church of England gathered in Salem in 1626. Driven underground by the puritans, it re-emerged in 1733 as Saint Peter's Parish, built on land given by Philip English, one of the accused Salem witches. ...

"Old Dan Tucker"

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Rev. Daniel Tucker owned a large plantation on the Savannah River and is buried near his old homesite, “Point Lookout,” six miles from here. Born in Virginia, February 14, 1744, Daniel Tucker came here to take up ...

8-10 Tradd Street The Lamboll Double Tenement

circa 1726

rebuilt 1781

The masonary structure of this double residence was constructed by Charleston merchant Thomas Lamboll

circa 1726. The date of construction is base on surviving land grants showing the establishment of common use alleys on either side ...

Newbury

1630 - 1930

Indian region called Quascacunquen. Settled 1635 under leadership of the puritan clergyman Thomas Parker.

Marker is on Main Street (Alternate Massachusetts Route 1), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

High Red Bluff

(Chunnanugga Chatty in Creek Indian Language)

Also called Hostile Bluff or Thirteen Mile Bluff, this spot located in a deep bend of the Alabama River was once the key to the Southeast and a strategic point in Colonial days. The first ...

Watts' Cellar

1630 - 1930

Near this spot was "Watts Cellar," a landmark before the settlement of Newbury in 1635. An excavation used for the storage of fish by fishermen who visited the New England coast.

Marker is on Merrimac St., on the left ...