Battle of Brandywine

The center of the American line, Wayne commanding, was near Chadds Ford and faced west. In late afternoon as Cornwallis was making the main assault on the American right wing, 3 miles north, Knyphausen's division of British and Hessians crossed ...

Batteries C & F, Pennsylvania Independent Light Artillery

C & F

Indp't Penn'a

Artillery

Position occuped

Indp't Pa. Art'y F

Hampton's Battery

July 3rd A.D. 1863

Organized at Pittsburg Pa

Oct. 8th 1861

Mustered out of United States Service

June 24th 1865

On this field the following members ...

Bethlehem World War II Memorial

Erected by the people of

the town of Bethlehem

to commemorate the patriotism

and loyalty of those who served

their country during World War II

* Peter S. SprouleClifford Adams • Leon W. Banks • Thomas C. Bate, Jr. ...

Nathaniel Polk DeShong

The Southern Diaspora

Nathaniel Polk DeShong descended from Huguenot immigrants who settled near the Haw River about a mile and a half north of here. He enlisted on June 21, 1861, at 17 years of age under Capt. James W. Lea ...

The Bloomfield Avenue School

On this site stood the brick Bloomfield Avenue School. Nearby and within the confines of the civic center were the previous two buildings which were removed in 1923 when the municipal center was constructed (the 1851 building was dismantled and ...

Colorado State Veterans Memorial

Dedicated by the people of Colorado in gratitude and respect for the men and women who have proudly served and sacrificed in our nation’s armed forces.

Marker can be reached from Lincoln Street.

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Wyandott Indian Mission

First Methodist Mission in America

Founded by John Stewart, a black man, in 1816, the Wyandott Indian Mission became the first officially recognized mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America three years later. A stone Mission Church was built on ...

Battle of Brandywine

On Sept. 11, 1777, an American force of about 11,000 men, commanded by Washington, attempted to halt a British advance into Pennsylvania. The Americans were defeated near Chadds Ford on Brandywine Creek by approximately 18,000 British and Hessian troops under ...

Disappearance of Albert J. Fountain and his son Henry

Albert Jennings Fountain was a Civil War veteran, New Mexico legislator and prominent lawyer. On February 1, 1896, Fountain and his eight-year-old son, Henry, were traveling home to Mesilla from Lincoln. They carried grand jury indictments against cattle rustlers. Both ...

Marblehead World War I Monument

This Tablet

Is Dedicated To The

Sons And Daughters

of

Marblehead

Who Served In The

World War

1917 – 1919

Live Wire Committee

Marker is at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Essex Street, on the right when traveling east on Pleasant Street.

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