To the Unknown Dead

Co. D 6th Maryland Infantry

To the Unknown Dead 1861 - 1865

Memorial to J. [James] Edward Heffner

Member Co. D 6th Md. Inf.

Erected by his wife.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Altamont Avenue and Flanagan Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

"The Spirit of the American Doughboy "

E. M. Viquesney

(Right panel)

World War I was largly fought in trenches six feet deep along the Western Front which extended nearly four hundred miles, from Northern France to the French-Swiss border. Enemy trenches were close by and seperated from allied ...

Ironmaster's Garden

An elaborate arrangement of flowers, herbs, and fruits once decorated these terraces. Violets, poppies, roses, daffodils, and hollyhocks were formally arranged in the ironmaster's garden. Rosemay and thyme scented the air as Hopewell's gardener busily tended the greenhouse. Beehives ...

Rutherford's Farm

In the Path of Battle

In addition to the action of July 20, 1864, known as the Battle of Rutherford’s Farm, two other significant events occurred on or near John Rutherford’s property here.

The first took place on June 14-15, 1863, during ...

Trade Partners Along the Hudson

First Inhabitants

Mahican Indians, known today as Mohicans by the Mohican Nation, were Algonquian-speaking people who inhabited this spot as early as the 1400s. Mahicans gathered here, at Schaghticoke, Cohoes, and at DeLaets and Schodack Islands long before Henry Hudson claimed ...

The Garden

Discovering Madison

"It was a paradise of roses and other flowers, to say nothing of the strawberries, and vegetables; every rare plant and fruit was sent to him by his admiring friends, who knew his taste, and they were carefully studied ...

Don Rafael Antonio Manchola

Early Goliad leader Rafael Antonio Manchola was born to a Spanish aristocratic family circa 1800. In 1822, he arrived in La Bahia, and two years later he wed Maria de Jesus de Leon, daughter of empersario Martin de Leon and ...

Christ Episcopal Church, Duanesburg New York

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Circa 1793

Marker is at the intersection of Great Western Turnpike (U.S. 20) and Duanesburg Churches Road (County Route 127), ...

Shady Grove Methodist Church And Cemetery

Early settlers to Cullman County established Shady Grove Methodist Episcopal Church as a brush arbor in the 1870s on land homesteaded and donated by Richard McCain. Trustees, J. J. McKissack, W. H. Martin, J. C. Vickery, J. W. Kilgo, together ...

September 17, 1862 (Continued)

The left of the Union line was held by Burnside's (Ninth) Corps. The battle opened there about 10 a.m. by an unsuccessful attempt of the 11th Connecticut Infantry, supported by Crook's Brigade, to carry the stone bridge over the Antietam, ...