Mead’s Tavern

The site of the first

Saratoga County Board of

Supervisors’ meeting on

June 2, 1791.

Marker is on Hudson Avenue (U.S. 4) 0.1 miles north of Montgomery Place, on the right when traveling south.

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Mystery Shrouds Fort Mountain

The trail to the north of this site leads to the mysterious and prehistoric wall of loose rocks from which Fort Mountain takes its name. Many generations of explorers, archaeologists, geologists, historians and sight-seers have wondered about the identity of ...

Friendship Cemetery

This site was donated by Arnold Milner, owner of a farm on the Etowah River, to be used for a church and cemetery for his family and friends. Friendship Presbyterian Church held its first services here on February 26, 1843. ...

Charles Burr Todd

This Tablet is Placed by the Commissioners

Of Israel Putnam Memorial Camp

To Perpetuate the Memory Of

Charles Burr Todd

1849 – 1928

Historian and Biographer

A Native of Redding, Inspired By Love For His Town

And State, He Was a Leader In The Movement

To ...

Illinois Soldiers at Perryville

The Fifty-ninth Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Maj. Joshua Winters, here suffered 113 casualties of 325 engaged. The Seventy-fifth Illinois, Lieut. Col. John E. Bennett, lost 225 of 700. Serving with Col. Michael Gooding's Thirteenth Brigade, the regiments came to the ...

Union Artillery 6 Pound James Rifles

At the right of the Battery of Fort Pillow these two middle embrasures or openings in the parapet were fortified with two 6 pounder rifles. These were manned by members of Battery D, 2nd U.S. Light Artillery (colored). During the ...

Soldiers' National Cemetery

"Here where they fell,

Oft shall the widow's tear be shed,

Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead;

The orphan here shall kneel and weep..."

Hymn by Benjamin B. French

Sung at cemetery dedication

November 19, 1863

Soldiers' National Cemetery contains the graves of more than 6,000 ...

Dirck Swart House

Headquarters Aug. 3 – 14, 1777,

of Gen. Philip Schuyler.

Arnold marched from here to

relief of Fort Stanwix.

Marker is on Hudson Avenue (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling south.

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Middle Fort Ditch Construction

Archaeologists cite three reasons why “Fort” Ancient is not a fortification. First, there is no evidence that a large number of people lived inside the earthworks, definitely not the thousands needed to defend such a large area. Second, there are ...

The O. O. Howard House

This Italianate-Revival style home was built in 1878 for General Oliver Otis Howard, Commanding General of the Department of the Columbia from 1874 until 1880.

This gracious home was considered ”the finest dwelling house north of the Columbia.” It was home ...