Battle of Piedmont

Final Action at New Hope

The Battle of Piedmont, fought on June 5, 1864 between Union Gen. David Hunter and Confederate Gen. William E. "Grumble" Jones. ended here. It began more than a mile northeast when the 12,000-man strong Federal army, ...

Departure of the Wyandot Indians

Ohio Historical Marker

[Front side of marker]: "Departure of the Wyandot Indians"

The 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs opened much of northwest Ohio to white settlement. In return, the U.S. Government granted the Wyandot Nation permanent use of the Grand Reserve at ...

New Hampshire - Berdan's Sharpshooters

2d Brigade, 1st Division

New Hampshire.

Cos. E, 1st Reg, F & G, 2nd Reg.

Berdan's U.S. Sharpshooters.

2d Brig, 1st Div, 3d Corps.

July 3, 1863.

Marker is at the intersection of Hancock Avenue and Pleasonton Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Hancock ...

The Friends School at Birmingham Meeting House

Was established at this place about 1753. It was for many years under the care of John Forsythe, the First Head Master of Westtown Boarding School opened in 1799. Dr. William Darlington was a pupil at Birmingham.

Marker is on ...

The Cold Harbor Killing Fields

The heaviest fighting on June 3 occurred at three separate spots outside the present boundary of the national park. You are looking northward toward one of those places. Two brigades of infantry from the Eighteenth Corps charged from right to ...

The Peace Garden at Birmingham

During the Battle of the Brandywine on September 11, 1777, the American Army used the walls of this Quaker Burial Ground in their first line of defense. Both armies used this meetinghouse of Quaker pacifists as a hospital. Behind the ...

Bayard Rustin

(1910 -1987)

Born here, the civil rights leader and pacifist organized the 1963 March on Washington. Head of A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1966-1979. Elected to Henderson High School Hall of Fame.

Marker is on Maple Avenue near Lincoln Avenue, on ...

Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard

Baseball Hall Of Famer

Rocky Mount Native

Born near this spot in 1907. Rose to

fame in the Negro Leagues, 1933-50.

Won Negro National League pennant

nine straight years while first baseman

of the Homestead Grays. Ranked

among home run leaders and won

Negro National League ...

First United Methodist Church

The Methodist Episcopal Church of Troy was organized in 1843. The first building was constructed in 1858, on land donated by Ann Dowdell Love, affectionately known as "Granny Love." The second structure was erected in 1888.

The present edifice, completed in ...

Philadelphia Presbyterian Church

(Front):

First Presbyterian Church in Pike County

Organized largely by members of Beaver Creek Presbyterian Church near Camden, South Carolina.

The petitioned Presbytery of South Alabama Oct. 18, 1839 and were officially established as a church April 3, 1840.

Church ...