13th New Jersey Infantry

September 17, 1862

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Engaged in this position, facing west, from 11.20 a.m. to about 12 noon.

Marker is on Smoketown Road, on the right when traveling west.

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13th New Jersey Infantry

September 17, 1862

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Center of regiment at 10.20 a.m. facing west. Part of the right wing was across the road.

Marker is at the intersection of Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike and Cornfield Avenue, on the right ...

Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade

built this lighthouse in 1858.

During the Civil War he commanded

the Army of the Potomac, from

Gettysburg to Appomattox (1863 – 1865)

under Lt. Gen. U. S. Grant.

[ Upper Marker: ]

A

portrait in bronze

of

the creator ...

New Jersey State Monument

(Each unit is detailed in a separate tablet):

Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry

Colonel Ezra A. Carman, Comanding

Third Brigade, First Division

Twelfth Corps

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Here this regiment, seventeen days after leaving home, met "its Baptism of fire," September 17, 1862. The first to fall was Captain ...

President Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America and party camped near here in a wooded area, when trying to reach Mobile, in his flight from Federal Soldiers. The party, on horseback, stopped at Warthen’s Store to purchase food ...

Major John Andre

Court martial convoy passed here after the Benedict Arnold treason. They met George Washington at West Point and Andre was hanged at Tappan, NY on October 2, 1780.

Marker is at the intersection of Croton Falls Road (County Route 34) and ...

Ens. Harry V. Groome, Jr.

Near this site May 23, 1945,

Ens. Groome perished

in the bay while on a

Corsair training flight from

Naval Air Station

Wildwood

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Naval Air Station Wildwood

Aviation Museum

Marker is on Sunset Blvd. (County Route 606) when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Royal Judge John Drayton

Born at Magnolia Plantation in 1713, but

failing to inherit Magnolia, he purchased

an adjoining tract and built Drayton Hall in

1740, but later acquiring Magnolia from his

nephew. In a will hastily drawn the night he

died while fleeing ...

Major John Andre

Court martial convoy passed here after the Benedict Arnold treason. They met George Washington at West Point and Andre was hanged at Tappan, NY on October 2, 1780.

Marker is at the intersection of S Lake Blvd. (New York Route 6 ...

Barnie Jordan Jr. Memorial Highway

Named In Honor

of

Native of Edgefield

County

Longtime Resident of

Richland County

Born 1909 Died 1980

Who during 35 years

as a general contractor

built more than 1,000

miles of roads, streets

and highways

in South Carolina

including this ...