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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKV_battle-for-cramptons-gap_Jefferson-MD.html
The Battle of South Mountain struck Crampton's Gap late in the afternoon of September 14, 1862, when Union Gen. William B. Franklin finally ordered an attack against Confederate Gen. Lafayette McLaws's force here. As the Confederate defensive line…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKU_washington-monument_Middletown-MD.html
Volunteer villagers of nearby Boonesboro celebrated their Independence Day July 4, 1827, by building and dedicating this first monument to the memory of George Washington.
Repaired and altered many times over a hundred years by patriotic citiz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKR_john-collins_Boonsboro-MD.html
Native of Frederick County, skilled hunter and a superintendent of provisions with the Lewis and Clark expedition, John Collins was the first Marylander to cross the North American continent. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were charged by Thom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKJ_welcome-to-riversdale_Riverdale-Park-MD.html
In the summer of 1794, as French Republican troops approached Antwerp, Flemish aristocrat Henri Joseph Stier (1743-1821) and his family fled to Philadelphia, taking with them their most valuable possessions, including the finest collection of Old …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKH_washington-monument_Charles-Town-MD.html
During the Antietam Campaign, the U.S. Signal Corps used the stone structure as a signal station. On July 4, 1827, citizens of the town of Boonsboro paraded to the top of the mountain here and began building this first monument in the country comp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKE_anna-eleanor-roosevelt-memorial-tree_Greenbelt-MD.html
First Lady of the Land, First Lady of the World, wife of our 32nd President, First Chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. From this point she surveyed the site and spurred the work of building Greenbelt, the first garden community in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKD_cramptons-gap-maryland-heights-and-pleasant-valley_Boonsboro-MD.html
Important points during the first invasion of Maryland by the Army of the Confederacy in 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKC_ferry-hill-place_Sharpsburg-MD.html
The boyhood home of Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas, a member of Stonewall Jackson's staff. Sept. 18, 1862, Federal troops occupied these premises and confined the Douglas family. June 18, 1863, Headquarters of Confederate Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson, en r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK9_boonsboro_Boonsboro-MD.html
After Gen. Robert E. Lee issued Special Order 191 near Frederick dividing the Army of Northern Virginia into four columns, Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's command marched across South Mountain on September 10, 1862. His column passed through …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK8_hoffman-paper-mills_Manchester-MD.html
The first paper maker in Maryland was William Hoffman. In 1775 he built his first mill on Gunpowder Falls a quarter mile upstream from the present Hoffmanville Bridge.
In September 1776 Congress adopted watermarked paper for its currency. Hoffm…