The Soldier’s Monument

Not for themselves

but

for their country

September 17, 1862

Marker is on Boonsboro Pike (State Highway 34), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Soldier’s Monument

The ground at this intersection, “Historic Crossroads of the American Revolution,” had long been a grassy triangle. In 1908 Charles E. Suffern gave the village this cannon, and the stone wall was built around it. Some residents, disliking the new ...