Pennsylvania, Cumberland County, Carlisle
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June 27, 1863, Gen. Ewell's Confederate army, marching over this road toward Harrisburg, reached Carlisle; Jenkins' cavalry went on to reconnoiter. On June 29, Lee ordered Ewell to join the main army at Cashtown.
(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
June 27, 1863, Gen. Ewell's Confederate army, marching over this road toward Harrisburg, reached Carlisle; Jenkins' cavalry went on to reconnoiter. On June 29, Lee ordered Ewell to join the main army at Cashtown.(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Site once part of Bellechasse plantation. Established by Col. Jean de Goutin Bellechasse, commander of colonial troops at the Louisiana transfer in 1803 and prominent early state official. Purchased in 1844 by Judah P. Benjamin, noted attorney and Louisiana U.S. Senator. He was known as the "Brains of the Confederacy" for his service in the Confederate cabinet. The main house was originally located about 1900 feet NNE of this site near the present ferry landing. It was razed in March 1960.
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On May 30, 1792 Captain Vancouver and his party anchored off this point and came ashore the following morning. Commissioned by the British to survey the N.W. Coast of America, they named this area Rose Point for the many wild roses that grew here.
Craig County. Area 333 square miles. Formed in 1851 from Botetourt, Roanoke, Giles and Monroe. Named for Robert Craig, member of Congress. Craig Healing Springs are in this county.
Three miles north of here stands the childhood home of William Addison “Add” Caldwell. He walked 28 miles to Blaksburg on 1 October 1872 and became the first student to register at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Graduating in 1876, Caldwell was elected secretary of his class alumni association. He worked as a teacher, clerk, and salesman before his death on 29 June 1910. He is buried in Radford, Virginia.
Home, c. 1800 of
John Sneden, Jr. (1770-1821),
shipbuilder on the Slote,
grandson of famed Dobbs-
Sneden ferrywoman Molly
Sneden and son of patriot
John Sneden. John, Jr.
married Phebe Gesner of
prominent shipbuilding
family. Their 6th son,
"Boss" William S. Sneden,
acquired the house c. 1861
and operated a nearby
shipyard on the Slot
(Sparkill Creek).
Construction of this sandstone
farmhouse was started
c. 1788 by the Halstead
family. John Yeary bought
the property in 1791 and
built a sawmill, later
combined with a gristmill
on the nearby Pascack Brook.
In 1795 the farm was
purchased by Abraham Garret
Haring whose descendants
occupied it for four
generations - 111 years. In
1906 the house became
Martens Falls Inn and has
continued as a restaurant
through successive owners.
This elegant mansion of
eclectic styles was built
in the early 1870's by
Charles T. Pierson. His
grandfather, Jeremiah H.
Pierson, founded the
Ramapo Iron Works which
operated nearby from 1795
to 1851. Charles T. Person
opened the Ramapo
(railroad) Car Works in
1864, reviving local
industry. The farm, at the
confluence of Torne Brook
and the Ramapo River,
included stables, carriage
house, horsetrack,
tennis court, gardens and
swimming ponds.
Burial grounds used by
the first settlers of this
northern part of the
Tappan Patent, among them
the Smith and Blauvelt
families. The earliest of
216 recorded graves is
1744 but prior interments
were made. There are
14 Revolutionary War
soldiers and 8 from the
War of 1812 buried here.
Site of one of the largest
U.S. Army staging areas
and embarkation points in
the United States during
World War II. More than
1.3 million men and women
passed through the camp
enroute to Europe. The
camp was 2 1/2 miles long
by one mile wide and
covered 2,020 acres.
Accessible to the Piermont
and New York piers,
Shanks had a total bunk
capacity for 46,875 troops.
Bayard Lane (named after
Blandina Bayard, an early
Ramapo settler) was the first
of the back-to-the-land
homestead communities
formed by Ralph Borsodi, the
economist who established
The Independence Foundation
to promote and finance their
development. A cooperative
enterprise of forty acres, it comprised seventeen homesteads on plots of one to three
acres for families seeking
greater economic independence.
Site of the School of Living,
founded to teach principles
of agrarian self-sufficiency.
In 1934 Ralph Borsodi
founded the School of
Living to teach and
demonstrate his principles of self-sufficient living.
In 1937 this building was
erected to house the School,
with space for resident students
and for seminars and lectures
on small-scale farming, home-
making arts, animal husbandry,
woodworking, spinning and
weaving. It taught "Decentralist
Theory": family strength via
economic independence.
The community of Captain received its
unusual name in 1888, when a post office
was established in the home of Guy Dingus
Huffman, who had served as the captain
of Company K, 46th Virginia Infantry
Regiment, C.S.A., during the Civil War.
Huffman had married Sarah Jane Hutchison,
a daughter of Col. Robert Mason Hutchison
(a War of 1812 veteran) on 9 Feb. 1853.
The couple built their house south of
Joh’'s Creek on Hutchison’s land. Huffman
served as postmaster until his death in 1910.
The post office closed in 1935.
