Forest of Needwood

Estate of Governor Thomas Sim Lee

Member Maryland Convention 1775

Signer Association of Freemen

Governor of Maryland 1779-82, 1792-4

Delegate Continental Congress 1783-4

Member state convention which ratified the Constitution 1788.

Marker is at the intersection of Burkittsville Road (State Highway 17) and Lees Lane, on ...

Anna B. Warner Memorial Garden

Constitution Island was the home of Susan and Anna Warner from 1836 – 1915. It was presented to the United States Military Academy by Miss Anna Warner and Mrs. Russell Sage.

Marker erected in 1968 by the

Constitution Island ...

Redoubt 5

During the period when Constitution Island supplemented the major West Point fortifications, the Continental Army sought to protect the Great Chain and river batteries from land attack. Placed on the highest ground of the then treeless island, three redoubts ...

Hill Cliff Battery

The Revolutionary Army fortified this hill in 1776 to provide more firepower down river and to maintain communication between Gravel Hill Battery to the east and the Fort Constitution area to the west. Hill Cliff Battery mounted from three ...

Redoubt 7

Built in 1778 on the island’s highest ground, Redoubt 7 blocked the western land approach to the Great Chain’s anchor on Constitution Island. In constructing the redoubt’s stone rampart, the Army used a large granite outcropping as part of ...

Gen. Jos. Wheeler, C.S.A.

Routed Gen. E. M. McCook, U.S.A.

July 30, 1864

Capturing 500 of his men

Marker is at the intersection of Millard Farmer Road and Old Corinth Road, on the left when traveling west on Millard Farmer Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Romans’ Battery

Intended as the west curtain of the never-completed Fort Constitution, “the . . . battery is a straight line constructed by Mr. Romans, at very great expense; it has fifteen embrasures, which face the river at a right angle, ...

The Old Toccoa Falls Power Plant

The Old Toccoa Falls Power Plant is an outstanding example of the early hydroelectric generating facilities that served America’s rural communities. Built in 1899 by E. Palmer Simpson of Toccoa, the plant was franchised in that year by the Toccoa ...

Rebecca Hawkins Crockett

Born in Maryland and emigrating with her husband to east Tennessee, David Crockett's mother followed her son through several residences in middle Tennessee before coming to live with a daughter about five miles west. At her death she was buried ...

Marine Battery

Built in early 1776, Marine Battery was destroyed in October 1777. The following year the battery was partially reconstructed on the surviving rampart to protect the Great Chain, which was probably anchored in the cove below.

This 10 foot ...