Bethesda Church

Presbyterian. Began as "Hart's Chapel," about 1765. Mother of many churches. The present building erected 1944, stands 3/4 mile south.

Marker is at the intersection of Bethesda Church Road and Bethesda Cemetery Road, on the left when traveling south on Bethesda ...

Defenses of Washington

Fort Willard Park

After Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861 the District of Columbia was on the dangerous border between the divided states. Because of the city’s importance, the Union Army immediately occupied Northern Virginia, which allowed ...

Willard's Battery

Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

Willard's Battery.

"A" 1st Illinois Light Artillery,

W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Division.

This battery, with three guns, was in action here at 10 a.m. April 7, 1862.

Marker can be reached from Cavalry ...

Westmoreland County

Formed on Feb 26, 1773 from Bedford County, it once comprised most of southwest Pennsylvania. First seat of English justice west of Alleghenies. Site of 1775 "Hanna's Town Resolves." Greensburg, county seat, was incorporated 1799.

Marker is on South Main Street ...

Confederate Cemetery

Here are buried 155 soldiers of the Army of Tennessee who died in hospitals during the mobilization for Bragg's Kentucky campaign of Sept. - Oct., 1862. Their graves, formerly distinguished by wooden markers giving name, rank and organization, are now ...

Founders and Proprietors Monument

1640 - 1935

In memory of the courageous men

who founded the first settlement of

the Town of Greenwich

in the Connecticut Colony

July 18-1640

Everardus Bogardus •

John Bowers •

Robert Feaks •

Jeffre Ferris •

Angell Husted •

Robert Husted •

Andrew Messenger ...

Cooperation and Conflict on the Trail

Many diaries of travelers on the Oregon-California Trail speak of good relations with Native Americans. Indians helped travelers by delivering their letters, pulling their wagons up steep banks, teaching them about edible plants, and keeping watch at night. Rather than ...

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Hope on the Horizon

What would make a family leave their home for an unfamiliar land on a distant frontier? For the nearly 300 men, women, and children on the Anza Expedition, it was the chance for a fresh start. In ...

Fort Defiance

Anthony Wayne Parkway

The arrival of the Legion of the United States at this point on August 8, 1794 marked the end of General Anthony Wayne's difficult march, through swamps and forests, from Fort GreeneVille. On this site, in the ...

The Dam Works

The Lexington is freed

By May 8, the water level had risen five feet four inches, allowing the lighter draft gunboats, the Fort Hindman, Neosho, and Osage, to cross the upper rapids and wait behind the dams. Fearing that the structure ...