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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CE_shake-rag_Mineral-Point-WI.html
In the 1830's, tin miners from Cornwall, England started coming to S. W. Wisconsin to work the newly discovered lead ore deposits. In certain localities they built their stone cottages similar to the ones of their homeland.
Shake Rag, the grea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CD_dr-walter-reeds-birthplace_Gloucester-Courthouse-VA.html
Dr. Walter Reed, U.S. Army medical officer and bacteriologist, was born on 13 Sept. 1851 in a nearby cottage at Belroi. He received medical degrees from the University of Virginia medical school and Bellevue Hospital College in New York City. In 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CC_warner-hall_Front-Royal-VA.html
Three miles east is Warner Hall. The estate was patented about 1650 by Augustine Warner, who built the first house in 1674. Bacon, the rebel, was here for a time in 1676. The later house, built about 1740 and burned in 1849, has been beautifully r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CB_bel-air_Front-Royal-VA.html
A remarkable number of Front Royal residents recorded the battle in their diaries. At least five of these diaries survive to reveal the civilian side of the Civil War, usually absent from official military records or soldiers' letters.
One of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CA_abingdon-church_Yorktown-VA.html
This is the Third Church of Abingdon Parish and was erected in 1755 on the site of an earlier one. The parish, established between 1650 and 1655, had its first church near the river.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9_york-county-warwick-county_Yorktown-VA.html
York County. Area 186 square miles. One of the eight original shires formed in 1634. First called Charles River, which was named for King Charles I. The name was changed in 1643 to York for Yorkshire, England. Cornwallis's surrender, October 19, 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C8_the-salem-mission_Port-Washington-OH.html
Here, on April 6, 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, a contingent of Delaware Christian Indians, led by John Heckwelder, an assistant to Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, founded the last of five missions to occupy the Tuscarawas Vall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C7_prospect-hill-cemetery_Front-Royal-VA.html
Devoid of trees in 1862, this hill afforded Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's troops their first good look at Front Royal and the deployments of the Union garrison here. Approaching from the south on the Gooney Manor Road (now Browntown Road), …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C6_fairview_Front-Royal-VA.html
This stone structure, known as Fairview, was the home of Thomas McKay. On this site Union Col. John R. Kenly rallied the 1st Maryland Infantry (USA) for a last stand as the Confederates approached. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson had ordered Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C5_putnams-stone-cabin_Independence-CA.html
One hundred thirty feet west of this site, Charles Putnam built the first cabin of permanent habitation in what is now Inyo County in August 1861. The building served as a home, trading post, hospital, and "fort" for early settlers, as well as a s…