Sideling Hill and Town Hill Mountains

Rainwater enters the outcropping sandstones of Sideling Hill and collects in what is termed an aquifer. In this highway cut, the water runs out at the bottom of the fractured sandstone layers because it cannot go through the dense claystone ...

Bedford County

Formed on March 9, 1771 from Cumberland County, it first embraced most of western Pennsylvania. Named for its county seat (formerly Raystown) incorporated 1795. In 1758, Fort Bedford was erected here, and Forbes Road - to become a major highway ...

First Brigade

Second Division - Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps Second Division

First Brigade

Col. Charles Candy

5th. 7th. 29th. 66th. Ohio

28th. 147th. Pennsylvania Infantry

July 1 Arrived at 5 p.m. and took position on the left of Third Brigade between the First Corps and ...

LaGrange County Honor Rolls - W. W. I, Korea, and Other Service

This four sided structure has four plaques. (The extreme foggy day prevented getting photos showing the names clearly. Could you help by up-loading clear photographs?? Thank You !)

[ Plaque One ]

Roll of Honor

Citizens of LaGrange County

who served our Country ...

President McKinley

In the Pan-American Temple of Music which covered this spot President McKinley was fatally shot Sept. 6, 1901.

Marker is on Fordham Drive ¼ mile east of Elmwood Avenue, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Rutherford's Farm

Union Victory

Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early attacked the defenses of Washington, D.C., in July 1864, then retreated to the Shenandoah Valley. Union Gen. Horatio G. Wright pursued him, and after a sharp fight and Confederate victory at Cool Spring on ...

Freedom Road Cemetery

Daniel Hughes, a lumber raftsman on the Susquehanna, lived here, 1854-80. In the years ending with the Civil War, he brought fugitive slaves here from Maryland, protecting them before they continued north via the Underground Railroad. Hughes gave part of ...

Craycroft Building

Originally a log building constructed in 1850 by John Craycroft & Company. It housed the famous Craycroft Saloon which boasted a 70 foot bar made from one rip-sawed board. Destroyed by fire, on February 19, 1852, it was immediately replaced ...

LaGrange County Organized 1832

Corner Stone

laid with public ceremony.

Aug. 15th A.D. 1878.

County Organized

May 14th A.D. 1832.

Jacob Vandevanter

Edmund Littlefield

Arthur Barrows

First Commissioners.

Joshua T. Hobbs

First Clerk.

County Seat located at Lima

A.D. 1832.

Removed to LaGrange

A.D. 1844.

First Term of Court held

Oct. 22nd A.D. 1832.

Marker is on ...

Old Abe, the War Eagle

This wayside is part of the old McCann farm, childhood home of Old Abe, the War Eagle. In the Spring of 1861 a band of hungry Chippewa came to the McCann farm and traded a young eagle for corn. The ...