2nd Battery New Jersey Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps

Artillery Brigade

New Jersey Light Artillery

2nd Battery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Captain A. Judson Clark Commanding

July 2 Engaged in the action in a field near the Peach Orchard retired to the rear about 6.30 p.m. ...

The Dairy Building

The Civil War at Endview

In the South, dairy buildings were small structures, usually 14 feet square with a gable roof. The buildings’ overhanging eaves, louvered ventilators, and insulated walls were designed to keep the milk cool inside. Milk was placed ...

Office of Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill

Office Site of Dr. J. Marion Sims

(Side A):Office of Dr. Luther Leonidas HillThis early 20th-century building was office of Dr. L.L. Hill who, in 1902, performed first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere when he sutured stab wound in ...

Battery H, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery

First Brigade - Second Division - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

Second Division First Brigade

3rd Penna. Heavy Artillery

Section Battery H

Two 3 inch Rifles

Captain William D. Rank

July 2 Marched with the 2d. Cavalry Division and went into position on the Hanover ...

Meriden Korea – Vietnam Memorial

In memory

of

the citizens

of Meriden

who answered

their

country’s call

Vietnam

1961 – 1975

Earl Bauchmann • Michael Chmura • Albert Christy • Wayne Cyr • Louis Dagle • Richard Hensley • Edward Jurek • Frank Kiewlen • Patrick King ...

First Masonic Lodge in Meriden

Near This Site

Meridian Lodge No. 77

A. F. & A. M.

Was Instituted As

The First Masonic

Lodge In Meriden

On Jan. 1, 1851

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Charles Street, on the left ...

The Endview Spring

The Civil War at Endview

The fresh water bubbling from this natural spring has supported wildlife and the various residents on this property: Indian hunting parties, the Harwood/Curtis families, and military encampments. During the American Revolution, General George Washington’s soldiers stopped ...

Grundy County

Established 1844: named in honor of Felix Grundy of Virginia. Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court; Rep. in Congress from Tenn. 1811-1814. US Senator 1829-38. Attorney Gen. in President Van Buren's Cabinet. At the time of his death in ...

Dunnville Sandstone

This stone, named Dunnville Sandstone, was quarried in a location first discovered in 1882 by surveyors for the railroad. Stone such as this was used for constructing our shelter house, the Mabel Tainter Memorial building in Menomonie, the St. Thomas ...

Meriden / Lexington Alarm

[Marker front]:

1661 – Meriden area first settled when Jonathan Gilbert is granted land by Connecticut Colony and employs Edward Higbee to operate an inn.

1670 – Greater part of present-day Meriden lands placed under jurisdiction of Wallingford.

1728 – Separate ...