Kansas Pacific Railroad Depots

Historical Plaza Walking Tour Stop 14

The Depots, just north of this sign were the natural gathering place for frontier towns. The area bustled with actiivity as dray (delivery) operators came and went with freight for local business. Of course, information ...

Fast Food

Stagecoaches carrying passengers of the Barlow and Sanderson stagecoach line pulled into the side yard of the house. This outside door led to the cellar of the house where Lucinda Mahaffie, her daughters, and hired help served meals to hungry ...

Broughton’s Expedition

Captain George Vancouver in a voyage of exploration to the Northwest coast of America ordered by the British Admiralty Office assigned Lieutenant William Robert Broughton, Commander of H.M.S. Chatham, to explore the navigable waters of the Columbia River with boat ...

The Fate of Harpers Ferry was sealed.

A.P. Hill

After an exhausting night of dragging 20 cannon along the river and up the ravines to this site on Chambers (Murphy) Farm, General A.P. Hill and his 3,500 men sprang their trap on the unsuspecting Union army. Before dawn ...

Mountains, Men, and Maneuvers

Confederate Major General “Stonewall” Jackson could not see this view. His lower vantage on Schoolhouse Ridge, 1000 yards upriver, blocked his sight of this strategic position. Yet Jackson remembered this farm from his time as Confederate commander at Harpers Ferry ...

Charleston Light Dragoons

(West face)

CLD

1861 - 1865

To The Heroic Dead.

James W. O'Hear, Lieut.

J.Allen Miles, Sergt.

Alfred Manigault, Corpl.

Charles E. Prioleac   "

    Arthur Robinson   "

Privates

James Adger Jr.

Josiah Bedon

James L. Bee

J.H.W. Boone

Benjamin Bostick

Danville-Pottsville R.R.

Opened Sunbury to Paxinos in 1835, operated on wood rails by horsepower. Steam locomotive first used in 1838; and iron rails, 1853. The terminal was nearby; here anthracite was loaded on canal boats for shipment to Philadelphia, Baltimore.

Marker is at ...

Brigadier General Peter Gansevoort, Jr.

Colonel in the Continental Army. Served in Canada with Montgomery in 1775 in campaign against Quebec. Successfully defended Fort Stanwix in 1777 against the allied British and Indian forces under St.Leger, preventing their junction with Burgoyne at Saratoga. He took ...

Lincoln and The Law

During his twenty years on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Abraham Lincoln tried numerous cases in the DeWitt County courthouses, including a slander case involving William Dungey. Dungey, “a dark skinned man of Portuguese descent,” married Joseph Spencer’s sister. The brothers-in-law ...

Salem Confederate Monument

With greatest respect and honor for the Confederate Soldiers from this area, we salute you, with the dedication of this monument. Special recognition goes to Sgt. John W. Cannon, an officer of the Confederacy and highly respected citizen of the ...