Category: Places to Visit
General Charles Harker’s Grave at Swedesboro New Jersey
As every New Jersey school kid knows, the southern part of the state was part of a still-born Swedish Empire back in the 1600s. The…
Greetings from Asbury Park Civil War Monument on the Jersey Shore
When you first see the Civil War monument below you might think it is in South Carolina. It is ringed with tropical plants, maybe even…
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Toms River New Jersey
Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. The county was only created a decade before the Civil War. The population had…
Waterloo Village New Jersey Canal Town During the Civil War
Waterloo Village State Historic Site is located in New Jersey’s Allamuchy Mountain State Park in Stanhope, N.J. It was the midway point on the 102…
Gettysburg Cyclorama Explained by Chris Brenneman on Addressing Gettysburg
Chris Brenneman gives a very good explanation of the Gettysburg Cyclorama, a 19th Century paining-in-the-round that depicts “Pickett’s Charge” during the Battle of Gettysburg. Matt…
Port Jervis NY Civil War Monument, Stephen Crane & a Lynching
Port Jervis is a small city where New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey meet. The city has 8,775 residents according to the 2020, down by…
Milford Pennsylvania Monument on Pike County Courthouse
Milford, Pennsylvania is the county seat of Pike County. This is a very small borough located on the Delaware River across from New Jersey. The…
90th Pennsylvania Monument at Antietam “A Hot Place”
The 90th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was raised in Philadelphia in September of 1861. The regiment saw it first large-scale combat during the Second Battle of…
Chambersburg’s Memorial Fountain for Union Troops & “The Burning of Chambersburg”
The women’s groups of Franklin County, Pennsylvania met on Memorial Day in 1868 and agreed they wanted to honor their men for serving in the…
Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware
For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…
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