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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4D9_springing-over-the-monocacy_Dickerson-MD.html
Springing Over the Monocacy. Captain William McNeill of the U.S. Topographical Engineers called this aqueduct "...a work which, while it is highly ornamental, unites...in its plan and execution, ?the true principles of economy, usefulness and dura…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2UA_washingtons-farm_Dickerson-MD.html
519 acres owned 1794-1799 by the First President
Thomas Sprigg, Jr., patented in 1725 as "Woodstock" 1,102 acres here, inherited in 1782 by Sprigg's three granddaughters, Sophia, Rebecca, and Elizabeth. Sophia married John Francis Mercer (later…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2HZ_warren-historic-site_Dickerson-MD.html
The Warren Historic Site is dedicated to preserving three historic buildings erected at this location on the grounds of the Warren United Methodist Church. These buildings served as the nucleus of a small rural African-American community known as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29X_historic-site-b-o-rr-station_Dickerson-MD.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249_gettysburg-campaign_Dickerson-MD.html
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM243_1862-antietam-campaign_Dickerson-MD.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
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/HMFE_mt-ephraim-crossroads_Dickerson-MD.html
You are looking at Sugarloaf Mountain, where the running cavalry fight that began in the late afternoon on September 9, 1862, in Barnesville came to a halt. By the next morning, the 7th and 9th Virginia Cavalry had been brought to bay here at the …