Memorial To Two French Soldiers

1781 1914

This memorial was erected by

Patriotic Citizens and Statesmen to

commemorate two French Soldiers

of Rochambeau's Army who volun-

teered to fight for American Indepen-

dence under Washington, enroute

from Newport to Yorktown, died and

were buried here, 1781.

Contributors

Govs. Baldwin, Conn. Dunne, Ill. (native of

Waterbury) Glynn, ...

French Camp

Here was the terminus of the Oregon-California Trail used by the French-Canadian trappers employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company from about 1832 to 1845. Michel La Framboise, among others, met fur trappers here annually where they camped with their families. ...

French Legation

Erected in the year 1841 by Conte Alphonse Dubois De Saligny, Charge D’Affaires for King Louis Philippe of France, to the Texas Republic. He lived here 1841-1842.

House constructed of Bastrop pine, in Louisiana bayou style.

Furnishings include several pieces once owned ...

The French are Coming

General George Washington and Colonel Alexander Hamilton are advised at Morristown by the Marquis de Lafayette that the French are coming to support the American cause.

May 10, 1780

Marker is on South Park Place, on the left when traveling north. ...

Frenchtown Railroad Sleepers

These stones were sleepers in the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad. Completed in 1831. The first railroad in Delaware and one of the first in the United States.

Marker is on the median between Market Street and 2nd Street near Harmony ...

Frenchman Bay

Vessels of all types have plied the waters f Frenchman Bay for centuries. Five thousand years ago, indigenous people may have paddled dugout canoes into the bay to reach fishing grounds or hunt sea mammals and swordfish. More recently, Wabanaki ...

French Burying Ground

French Burying Ground

First used 1677

Placed by

David Demarest Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1955

Marker is on Patrolman Ray Woods Lane, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of the French Church and Cemetery

Site of the French Church and Cemetery of Kinkachemeck, New Jersey. Deeded to David Desmarest June 8, 1677 by Tapan Indians.

Erected by the Bergen County Historical Society 1935.

Marker is at the intersection of River Road and Patrolman Ray Woods ...

French & Indian War – Revolutionary War – War of 1812

Soldiers of Franklin County

French and Indian War     1755-1758

In this war there were so far as can be determined two or three organized companies of Associators within the present limits of the county, who took part in ...

The French Hotel and Bar

1437 Highway 395

Owned at one time by Baptiste Borda and later leased to the Mitcheo family. Raymond Borda, upon returning from World War II, owned and operated the hotel for many years. The French Hotel was one of the three ...