Lovely Mount Baptist Church
On 13 Nov. 1869, the Rev. Capt. Charles S. Schaeffer of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands met with the people of Lovely Mount...
Fort Scammel
Named after Alexander Scammel who died in the Battle of Yorktown during the Revolutionary War, this fort was built in 1808 as part of a Federal...
Delaware Public Archives
The Delaware Public Archives contains large collections detailing Delawarean history from legislative papers to Civil War diaries and more. The...
Butts Hill Fort
This was the largest Revolutionary War earthen fort in southern New England, used as the command post for the Americans during the Battle of Rhode...
Fort Gorges
Modeled after Fort Sumter, Fort Gorges was built between 1858-64, but was obsolete due to innovations like iron-clad ships and long-range guns that...
Colored Union Soldiers Monument
Situated on Academy Green, this monument is the third oldest of the few nationwide that remember United States Colored Troops (USCT), and the first...