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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1_sugarloaf-mountain_Dickerson-MD.html
You are at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain, where on September 5-6, 1862, Union observers watched the Army of Northern Virginia cross the Potomac River to invade Maryland. A signal station had been established here in the summer of 1861, one in a c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGX_george-washington_Ijamsville-MD.html
George Washington stopped in a building two hundred yards west of here known as Peter's Tavern Thursday June 30, 1791.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW_landon-house_Frederick-MD.html
Constructed in 1754 on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, this building was reconstructed here in 1846 and became Landon Female Academy. Early in September 1862, while infantry of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia rested…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV_carrollton-manor_Adamstown-MD.html
On Saturday, September 6, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia was spread along the entire length of Buckeystown Turnpike all the way to Frederick. The soldiers camped in the fields on either side of the road on the evenings of September 5-6, and b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGU_buckeystown-park_Adamstown-MD.html
On the south end of this park, the road from Urbana to Buckeystown crossed the Monocacy River over a stone bridge. Some of the Confederate troops camped here on September 6, 1862, while some crossed the bridge to bivouac on a knoll overlooking the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGT_carrollton_Buckeystown-MD.html
Patented for 10,000 acres to Charles and Daniel Carroll, Mary and Ellinor Carroll 1st April 1724. It was from this tract that Charles Carroll assumed the title "Charles Carroll of Carrollton" when signing the Declaration of Independence.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1_headquarters-of-generals-robert-e-lee_Frederick-MD.html
Headquarters of Generals Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, and Longstreet Sept. 6-9, 1862 Here was written the famous lost order No. 191 and the proclamation to the people of Maryland.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC0_emmitsburg_Emmitsburg-MD.html
President Abraham Lincoln replaced Army of the Potomac commander Gen. Joseph Hooker with Gen. George G. Meade on June 28, 1863, as the army pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Meade placed Gen. John F. Reynolds, I Corps command…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBZ_catoctin-iron-furnace_Thurmont-MD.html
Gettysburg CampaignWhen Union Gen. John F. Reynolds' I Corps marched by here on June 29, 1863, en route to Emmitsburg and soon to Gettysburg, his men were progressing "swimmingly." The workers of the Catoctin Furnace had little time to notice, sin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBV_thurmont_Thurmont-MD.html
On June 29, 1863, Mechanicstown was full of the noise of an army on the move as Union Gen. John F. Reynolds marched I Corps to Emmitsburg. Until then, residents had only heard rumors of the advancing Confederates as nervous farmers hurried horses …