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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHOW_john-wormley_Wormleysburg-PA.html
Memorial toJohnWormley.1757 - 1825Founder ofWormleysburg
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM8_brig-gen-albert-gallatin-jenkins-c-s-a_Austin-PA.html
Born November 10, 1830 in Greenbottom, Virginia, he was a graduate of Jefferson College and studied law at Harvard University. Albert Jenkins served as U.S. Congressman from 1857 to 1861 and then resigned to serve the confederacy. Thereafter, he s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM6_fort-couch-general-couch-fort-washington_Lemoyne-PA.html
Left Panel Fort Couch was built as part of the emergency fortifications erected to defend Harrisburg and nearby bridges across the Susquehanna River during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania by Confederate forces. Fort Couch was built as an advance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM3_fort-couch_Lemoyne-PA.html
Remains of breastworks at Eighth and Ohio Streets, built before the battle of Gettysburg, to oppose the expected Southern drive on Harrisburg. June 29, 1863, a few Confederate scouts neared here but withdrew.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM2_fort-couch_Lemoyne-PA.html
Remains of breastworks built in June 1863 to oppose an expected attack on Harrisburg by Confederate troops. Site then known as Hummel's Heights. Fort was named for General Couch, Commander, Eastern Pennsylvania Military Department.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLZ_gettysburg-campaign_Camp-Hill-PA.html
Confederate General Albert G. Jenkins and his staff occupied this house, June 28-30, 1863. His brigade, a part of General Ewell's Corps, had entered Mechanicsburg to reconnoiter the approaches to Harrisburg with a view toward a June 30 attack. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHLY_gettysburg-campaign_Camp-Hill-PA.html
Farthest advance of a body of Confederate troops toward Harrisburg. Southern units under General A. G. Jenkins of Ewell's Corps reached Oyster Point on June 28, 1863. On the next day defending militia faced them here in a skirmish in which both si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCVA_the-first-national-bank-of-newville_Newville-PA.html
Rea, Gracy & Company, also known as the Newville Deposit Bank, was founded in 1857. Following the passage of the National Banking Act, the First National Bank Newville was chartered in July of 1863 as the 60th National Bank in the U.S. The company…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCV9_william-denning_Newville-PA.html
Erected by the State ofPennsylvaniain memory ofWilliam Denningthe patriotic blacksmith andforger of wrought iron cannonduring the Revolutionary WarBorn 1737 - Died 1830
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCV8_revolutionary-war-soldiers-buried-in-big-springs-presbyterian-church-cemetery_Newville-PA.html
Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in grateful appreciation of the services of these soldiers of the Revolutionary War who lie buried here.
Lieut. Colonel Samuel Irvine · Captain William Peebles · Captain Samuel Felton &m…