Confederate Attacks Stall

General Couch found the uneven terrain in this section of the Union position less favorable for artillery. He chose to push his infantry well forward of the guns, placing brigades under Abercrombie, Howe, and Palmer on this ground to prevent ...

Richard Montgomery

This Monument is erected by the order of CONGRESS 25th Janry 1776, to transmit to Posterity a grateful remembrance of the patriotism conduct enterprize & perseverance of Major General RICHARD MONTGOMERY, Who after a series of successes amidst the most ...

Alexander Lillington

Revolutionary leader; Whig colonel in the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, 1776. His grave is 9 miles northeast.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 117 and North Carolina Route 210, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 117.

Courtesy ...

National Historic Landmark - Boston Common

Founded 1634

Neighborhood of Revolution

“Paul Revere . . . started on a ride which, in a way has never ended.” - Esther Forbes, author of the classic study, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

In the course of just two ...

The Stewart County Iron Industry

For over fifty years during the 19th Century, Stewart County was the center of the iron industry of Tennessee. For instance, in 1854, the county produced as much, tonnage-wise, as the next two largest producing counties in middle Tennessee and ...

Indian King Tavern

Within this building then a tavern-house, the Council of Safety for New Jersey was organized March 18th 1777. Herin also, in September of the same year the Legislature unanimously resolved that thereafter the work “state” should be substituted for “colony” ...

Cornwallis’s Headquarters

Nov. 21-24, 1777, Cornwallis had headquarters opposite the Court House. His troops camped on the Meeting House grounds. Many soldiers carried from the battle at Red Bank were buried here in the Strangers Burying Ground.

Marker is on N Broad Street ...

The Third System

Although the United States won the War of 1812, the searing memory of the nation’s capital in flames continued to disturb the public and Congress alike. The British had entered the Chesapeake Bay, continued up the Potomac River, and set ...

The Pleasant Valley War a.k.a. The Graham-Tewsbury Fued

Circa 1882 - 1892

One of the West’s Longest and Bloodiest feuds took

place here and around Pleasant Valley. The Grahams and

the Tewksburys had been in the cattle business and it

seems probable that they first fell out over the division of cattle ...

Robertson's Brigade

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Army of Northern Virginia

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Robertson's Brigade

4th. and 5th North Carolina Cavalry

July 1 The Brigade crossed the Potomac at Williamsport Md. and marched to Greencastle Pa.

July 2 Marched from Greencastle Pa. to ...