Shot and Shell

Fort Washington's solid masonry walls offered good protection against shot from smoothbore cannon of the early 19th century.

When rifled artillery was introduced in the late 1850s and used during the Civil War, effectiveness of masonry structures decreased. The new weapons ...

Fort Davis

Established by Lieut. Col. Washington Seawell with six companies of the Eighth U.S. Infantry in October 1854 for protecting travelers on the San Antonio-El Paso Road. Named in honor of the then Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, it was abandoned ...

Sacred Heart Catholic Church

The first Catholic mass was celebrated at Milledgeville in April, 1845, at the Hugh Treanor apartment in the Newell Hotel. Bishop Ignatius Reynolds of the diocese of Charleston, accompanied by Father J. F. O’Neill, visited here in 1847. In 1850 ...

Building 98, Fort D.A. Russell

Constructed in 1920, Building 98 housed the officers club and bachelor officers quarters for Fort D.A.Russell. During the latter years of the World War II, from 1943 to 1945, German prisoners of war from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps ...

Old Franklin County Jail

Of Georgian design, this jail was built in 1818 and was in continuous use for 152 years. The third oldest building in the borough, it survived the burning of Chambersburg by Confederate forces during the Civil War.

Marker is at the ...

Cat Swamp Hijacking and Murder

In this area, on Cat Swamp Hill in Byram Township, at about 6:00 a.m. on June 14, 1921, the Sussex Print Silk truck was hijacked. Albert Koster drove onto the scene on his motorcycle, was mistaken for a state trooper, ...

Dr. Meta L.Christy

Side A:

Meta L. Christy, DO, is recognized by the American Osteopathic Association as the first black osteopath. Dr. Christy graduated in 1921 from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as its first black graduate. The College gives an annual award ...

Stage Fort Fisherman's Field

Stage Fort Fisherman's Field

Oldest Defenses in the Mass. Bay Colony. Thrown up in 1625 by Capt. John Hewest. Occupied in King Philips War 1675 and in King Georges War 1743. Companies under Capt. John McCaw and Capt. John Lane stationed ...

Goldsmith Maid

Queen of the Trotters

Here in the Clove in 1857 a filly of Hambletonian lineage was foaled on the farm of John B. Decker. When fully grown, a bay standardbred mare 15 hands, she was bought by Alden Goldsmith of Washingtonville, ...

Greenwood County Confederate Monument

South Side:

Our

Confederate

Soldiers

East Side:

1861 - 1865

Patriots

Who animated by the same faith, actuated by the same love of country, beset with the same trials and dangers, enduring with the same fortitude and fought as heroically to maintain local self government as did ...