Stanley Hundred

A New Settlement

Preface: Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight original ...

Naugatuck Soldiers' Memorial

[ East face ]

Erected by the Citizens of

Naugatuck

A.D. 1885.

In Memory of Her Sons

Who Fought to Maintain

The Union

1861-1865.

[ North face ]

The Deeds of Those

Who Died in Defense

Of the Government

Of the People

Are ...

And It Became Land

Look out across the Smoky Mountains landscape.

How did this land come to be?

They carefully got all the mud and they laid it out on the rocks. And when it was dry enough, Grandfather threw it out into the water, and ...

Anderson’s Division, Longstreet’s Command

C.S.A.

Anderson’s Division, Longstreet’s Command

Maj. Gen. R.H. Anderson Commanding.

(September 17, 1862)

Anderson's Division comprising the brigades of Cumming, Wright, Pryor, Mahone, Featherstone, and Armistead crossed the Potomac at Blackford's Ford abotu daybreak and between 9 and 10 a.m. arrived upon this part ...

132nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

(Front):

Antietam

132nd Pennsylvania

Volunteer Infantry

1 Brigade 3 Division 2 Corps

September 17, 1862

(Back):

Casualties

at Antietam

Killed 30

Wounded 114

Missing 3

Total 152

Battles Participated in

Antietam MD.

Sept. 17, 1862

Fredericksburg VA.

Dec. 13, 1862

Chancellorsvile VA.

Apr. 30. May 3, 1863

Recruited in Montour

Wyoming Bradford

Columbia Carbon and

Luzerne Counties

Marker is on Richardson Avenue, on the ...

Camp Creek Methodist Church

(Front)

This church, organized in 1798 by Bishop Francis Asbury, held its first services in a log meeting house. On July 10, 1798, Middleton McDonald donated the meeting house and ten acres to church trustees Gideon Glaze, John Graham, ...

Mt. Carmel Campground

(Front)

According to local tradition, this African Methodist Episcopal Zion Campground was established c.1870. Instrumental in organizing the campground was former slave Isom Caleb Clinton, who was ordained Bishop of the church in 1892. Through the years the campground ...

Lower Bridge: Take the Low Ground!

Over three weeks in March 1781, Brig. Gen. Francis Marion conducted a series of engagements between the Santee River and Georgetown, battering a larger force of British regulars and Loyalist militiamen under the command of Col. John Watson. This series ...

122nd New York Infantry

1st Brigade, 3rd Division

(Front):122nd. N.Y. Inf'y.

6th Army Corps.(On the other facing of the "cap"):1st Brigade

3rd Division

(Back):Assisted in

repulsing the attack

on the morning of

July 3, 1863,

Loss

Killed 10;

Wounded 34.

(Right):Organized

Onondaga Co.

New York,

Mustered into service

at Syracuse, N.Y.

August 28, 1863,

Service continuously

with the

Sixth Corps

until the close

of the ...

Mountains: Refuge and Healing

Clingmans Dome is a sacred mountain to the Cherokees, where the Magic Lake was once seen. The Great Spirit told the Cherokees that, “if they love me, if they love all their brothers and sisters, and if they love the ...