Wethersfield Settlers Memorial

To The Memory

Of The Adventurers From

Watertown, Massachusetts

Who Settled Wethersfield

In 1634

John Oldham • Robert Seeley • John Strickland • Andrew Ward • John Clarke • Leonard Chester • Nathaniel Foote • Abraham Finch • Robert Rose • William Swayne

Erected By

The Wethersfield ...

The Reservation Monument

[Side one of six]:

Under the influence of Dr. John McLaughlin, Manager of the Hudson Bay Co., civilization of Washington started at Vancouver, A.D. 1825.

[Side two of six]:

The first school in Washington was taught by John Ball, at Vancouver, A.D. 1833.

[Side ...

The Custis Family

Abingdon Plantation

John Parke Custis was the adopted stepson of George Washington and had been raised at the nearby Washington estate of Mount Vernon. He and his wife, Eleanor Calvert, lived in New Kent County with their first two daughters. However, ...

The Hunter Family

Abingdon Plantation

After the Stuarts moved from Abingdon in 1793, the Alexander family once again owned the plantation. Robert Alexander III’s son, Walter, leased Abingdon to several families over the years. In 1807, he advertised the Abingdon estate for sale, ending ...

The Alexander Family

Abingdon Plantation

Abingdon Plantation was originally part of a 6,000 acre tract if land granted to Robert Howson in 1669. As master of a sailing ship, he was given the land in exchange for transporting settlers to the colony of Virginia. ...

The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial

The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is the state's foremost Civil War monument. This outstanding example of civic sculpture stands in a prominent downtown location on the southeast tip of Campus Martius where five principle thoroughfares intersect--Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street, ...

Grand Army of the Republic

There are now forty-eight reasons why we will always remember the Grand Army of the Republic.

Erected by Department of Michigan, Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Dedicated November, 1948.

Marker is on Muse Road ...

The Mormon Pioneers

Erected by

The Members of

the

Woodruff Stake

in Honor of

The Mormon Pioneers

Who passed this point

Wednesday July 7, 1847

and in subsequent years

Marker can be reached from the intersection of State Highway 413 and Interstate 80.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Matthews Hill

First Taste of Combat

Officers were trying to hurry the long Union column down the road past Matthews Hill. (McDowell's flanking plan depended on speed and surprise.) Suddenly there was a rattle of musketry ahead. Like a nightmare in sunlight, men ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive Campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his army [Union] into two wings. ...