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Volunteer Railroaders Association (aka VRA) is a New Jersey–based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of volunteers interested in railroad heritage and preservation. [1] The VRA has conducted rail-oriented excursions in New York and Pennsylvania, in addition to New Jersey, including children oriented fund-raising train rides in New Jersey and New York.
The 11th New Jersey Infantry Regiment was recruited in May 1862 at Camp Perrine, located near the New Jersey State Prison near Trenton. [1] The regiment was led by Colonel Robert McAllister, who had seen service as lieutenant colonel in the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. The regiment left New Jersey for Washington on August 25. [2]
The Crosswicks Creek Site III is a historical archaeological site in the vicinity of Bordentown in Burlington County and Hamilton Township in Mercer County, New Jersey.It encompasses the remains of Revolutionary War-era ships that were sunk in Crosswicks Creek in 1778.
The Visayans first encountered Western Civilization when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the island of Homonhon, Eastern Samar in 1521. [13] The Visayas became part of the Spanish colony of the Philippines and the history of the Visayans became intertwined with the history of the Philippines.
Ki Longfellow, author; VISTA volunteer on the Blackfeet Indian reservation; William Luvaas [2] Ray Magliozzi, former host of Car Talk; James H. Maloney; George R. R. Martin; John Medinger, Wisconsin State Assembly and Mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin; Alan Meisner; Charles E. F. Millard; Gwen Moore; Mary Murphy; Hill Pickus; James H. Rathlesberger ...
Fog surrounds cliffs looming over the Delaware River whose valley is the core of the historic Minisink region, July 2007. The Minisink or (more recently) Minisink Valley is a loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey (Sussex and Warren counties), northeastern Pennsylvania (Pike and Monroe counties) and New York (Orange and Sullivan counties).
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The 197th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, alternately the 3rd Coal Exchange Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Union Army in the American Civil War.Raised in Philadelphia in mid-1864, the regiment was made up of Hundred Days Men in an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days, and spent most of its service guarding Confederate ...