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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14I6_battle-of-maryland-heights_Knoxville-MD.html
(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's smashing victory over Union Gen. John Pope at the Second Battle of Manassas, Lee decided to invade the North to reap the fall harvest, gain Confederate recruits, earn foreign recognition, and perha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13WF_forest-of-needwood_Knoxville-MD.html
Member Maryland Convention 1775Signer Association of FreemenGovernor of Maryland 1779-82, 1792-4Delegate Continental Congress 1783-4Member state convention which ratified the Constitution 1788.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFTH_lock-34-harpers-ferry_Knoxville-MD.html
Lock 34 was often referred to as "Goodheart's Lock". Willard Goodheart was the last locktender at this location. Like nearby Lockhouse 33, the lockhouse at Lock 34 was destroyed in the great flood of 1936. Of the 1936 flood, Mr. Goodheart as quote…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SL_exploring-maryland-heights_Knoxville-MD.html
As the highest ridge surrounding the town of Harpers Ferry, Maryland Heights once bustled with private industry and Civil War occupation. Antietam Iron Works, a major nail producer in the early 1800s, burned the timber of the heights for charco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SK_harpers-ferry-changes-through-time_Knoxville-MD.html
Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, Harpers Ferry was named for Robert Harper, a millwright who continued a ferry operation here in 1747. The waterpower of the two rivers - harnessed for industry - generated tremendous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SJ_30-pounder-battery_Knoxville-MD.html
Positioned here at the end of a towering plateau, this fortification was the first earthen battery built on the mountain by the Federals in the fall of 1862. Facing south, its guns "commanded perfectly the summits of Loudoun Heights as well as Bol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SE_interior-fort_Knoxville-MD.html
You are standing inside the Interior Fort, facing its north wall - the most imposing earthwork on Maryland Heights. This nine-foot-high parapet and accompanying ditch defended the crest from attack from the north. The five embrasures which cut thr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2RY_stone-fort_Knoxville-MD.html
To command Maryland Heights' highest point, the Federals built this massive foundation, called the Stone Fort in the winter of 1862-63. Union engineers designed this defense as an infantry blockhouse to ward off Confederate attack along the cre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2RW_exterior-fort_Knoxville-MD.html
Built in 1863 to strengthen a double row of rifle-pits and to protect against attack from the north, the Exterior Fort consisted of two parallel rock walls, or breastworks, about 530 feet apart. The south line, visible in front of you, extended 52…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2RV_civil-war-campgrounds_Knoxville-MD.html
For more than three years - May 1862 through July 1865 - Union soldiers lived, worked, and played on Maryland Heights. They built numerous campgrounds on this inhospitable mountain that lacked water, level ground, or adequate sanitation conditions…
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