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The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes more simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th-century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Bradford County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
Pennsylvania Longrifle Museum: Nazareth: Northampton: Lehigh Valley: Weaponry: website, operated by the Jacobsburg Historical Society Pennsylvania Lumber Museum: Galeton: Potter: Northern Tier: Industry - Lumber: Documents the history and technology of the Commonwealth's forest industries, administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum ...
Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site ...
This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
Braddock's Field is a historic battlefield on the banks of the Monongahela River, at Braddock, Pennsylvania, near the junction of Turtle Creek, about nine miles southeast of the "Forks of the Ohio" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1755, the Battle of the Monongahela was fought on Braddock's Field, which ended the Braddock Expedition.
Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania (13 P) Pages in category "Battles in Pennsylvania" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Visitor Center houses the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War and the 19th century, painting in the round, the Gettysburg Cyclorama) [16] The park officially came under federal control on February 11, 1895, with a piece of legislation titled, "An Act To establish a national military park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania."