These Cannon Were Abandoned

These cannon

were abandoned

at

Fort Independence

(Castle William)

by the

British forces

when they evacuated

the

City of Boston

March 17, 1776

Marker is on Garden Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Black Dog Trail

Commemorating

Opened in 1803 by Chief Black Dog (Manka-Chonka) and his band of Osage Indians who had a village nearby where springs once flowed freely.

Marker is at the intersection of East Avenue and 7th Street, on the left when traveling south ...

Washington First Took Command

Under this tree

Washington

first took command

of the

American Army,

July 3d 1775

Marker is on Garden Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Dorence Atwater

Captured by the Confederates and sent to the prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville, Ga., Atwater kept a secret list of the 13, 000 Union soldiers who died there. After the war, he and Clara Barton returned to properly mark the ...

A Vast Depot

"Nearly every house in the place is filled with government stores. There is a pile of meat larger than our house, besides flour, hay, corn, coffee, rice, sugar, salt, tea, vinegar, etc. etc.... If one family of ten persons had ...

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church

[Side one:]

Free blacks and former slaves organized an African Methodist Episcopal congregation in Corydon by 1843. In 1851, church trustees purchased land in Corydon in order to build a church and for school purposes. In 1878, church trustees purchased land ...

Jean Hillery and Thomas Quadros

United States

Department of Agriculture

American Linden or Basswood

(Tilia Americana)

Dedicated in memory of Jean Hillery and

Thomas Quadros, Food Safety and Inspection Service

Compliance Officers,

who lost their lives

in the line of duty June 21, 2000

Washington’s General Orders

Washington’s General Orders

given at Cambridge, July 4, 1775

“The Continental Congress

having taken all the troops

of the several Colonies,

which have been raised,

or which may be hereafter raised

for the support and defence

of the Liberties of America;

into their pay and service.

They are now the ...

Barclay House and Scottsville Museum

Here stands the Barclay House, built about 1830, later the home of Dr. James Turner Barclay, inventor for the U. S. Mint and missionary to Jerusalem. He founded the adjacent Diciples Church in 1846 and served as its first preacher. ...

Field Hospital

After both battles U.S. Army surgeons used the small frame house and outbuildings that stood on this property:

"In about two hours, Sudley Church was completely filled and I was obliged to take possession of three other unoccupied buildings. As soon ...