The Restoration Movement / Doty Settlement Cemetery

Side A: The Restoration Movement

In the early years of the nineteenth century, a religious unrest known as the Second Great Awakening spread across much of the American frontier. Among the most influential of the evolving religious organizations were the Campbellites, ...

The Cemetery on Burying Ground Hill

1695 - 1890

These stones from the first cemetery in Waterbury, now the site of Library Park, were placed here at the suggestion of various patriotic organizations

Marker is on Meadow Street 0.1 miles south of Grand Street, on the left when ...

Bats on the Move

Bat Migration

From April to October, New Jersey’s bats feed almost exclusively on nocturnal insects, eliminating thousands of mosquitoes and flying pests each night. But when winter comes, most bats migrate to find alternative food sources or hibernation roosts.

New Jersey has ...

Soldiers of the American Revolution

Three American Revolution patriots rest in this cemetery. A fourth soldier is also recognized here.

Elisha Raymond was born in 1761. In 1776, at age 15, he enlisted in the Rhode Island Militia and completed seven tours of duty. In ...

The Purple Heart Memorial

[ Front ]

Dedicated to the recipients of this

Nation’s oldest military decoration

“The Purple Heart”

Left side: The Purple Heart Insignia

Right side:

My stone is red for the blood they shed. The medal I bear is my ...

The Watermen of Back Creek

During the 1920s, the houses on this street belonged to African-American families. Most of the men living here worked on the water, launching often home-built boats from their back yards. They harvested oysters from September to April, and crabs in ...

In Memory of the Old Tier Grounds

Of Sacramento City Cemetery

The unmarked last resting place of over three thousand pioneers, their exact place of burial, somewhere between the north border of Broadway and the north portion of the cemetery, and between 9th and 11th Streets, known but ...

The Stoneman Raid

Closing in on Atlanta in July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman found it “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest.” To force its evacuation, he sent

Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman's cavalry [US] to cut the railway to Macon by ...

The Miami and Erie Canal

The Miami and Erie Canal

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Over this site once flowed the Miami and

Erie Canal, linking the Ohio River with the

Maumee and Lake Erie. The canal was opened

in 1827 and was finally drained in 1920.

The Columbus Guards

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Site, of the last armory of the Columbus Guards, a noted military company chartered by the Georgia Legislature in 1843 and organized in 1835. They served voluntarily in the Indian War, 1836; the War with Mexico, 1846; the War Between ...