Revolutionary New London

The Fight for Liberty

When the “Lexington Alarm” was sounded in April 1775, three militia companies from New London and surrounding towns responded immediately. Within a month, six new regiments were formed with two New London companies participating in the Battle ...

Longwood University

Longwood University is a state-supported institution developed from the privately owned Farmville Female Seminary that was incorporated in 1839. In 1884, it became a public institution when the Commonwealth acquired the property and renamed it the State Female Normal School ...

43rd Illinois Infantry

Raith's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

43rd Illinois Infantry,

Raith's (3d) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here from 12 M. to 2 P.M. April 6, 1862. It then fell back to Jones Field.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Civic Advancement

The Town of Madison Board of Commissioners selected one of their body each year to serve as President until an 1876 charter amendment incorporated the “City” of Madison and vested leadership in a Mayor and Board of Aldermen (later the ...

738th Medium Tank Battalion, Special

World War II

Dedicated to the men who gave time in their lives to serve honorably and courageously for our country. We take this moment in time to recognize their achievements which were done with pride and dignity.

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Campaigns

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Friends Meetinghouse

The Hoover family worshipped in this building along with neighbors and relatives who were members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers as they are often called. West Branch was predominately a Quaker community in the 1850's when this ...

Dresser's Battery

Battery D, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Dresser's Battery,

"D" 2d Ill. Lt. Art., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery, with 6 James Rifled guns, was engaged here at 11.15 a.m. April 6, 1862. It held the position only ...

Site of Father Dubois House

This cross marks the site of Father Dubois house in which Mother Seton and her associates lived from Jun 21, to July 31, 1809.

"Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints."

Marker is on Grotto Road 0.6 miles north ...

Site of Rehearsal Hall for the The Hoo Hoo Band

At the turn of the century, a group of Lufkin men organized a town brass band. It later became known as the Hoo Hoo Band after representing Texas at a national convention of the Order of Hoo Hoo, an organization ...

Intermediate Line of Confederate Defenses

This cannon marks the intermediate line of

Confederate defenses of Richmond

1862 - 1865

Placed here in 1958 by the

Confederate Memorial Literary Society

in memory of

Alexander Wilbourne Weddell

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Clovelly Road and Canterbury Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org