The Liberty Trail History Makers

Marion Square, named in honor of Francis Marion, is greenspace in downtown Charleston, South Carolina and features remnants of The Hornwork, a large fortification built in 1758 that played a major role in the fight for independence.

This battleground was the site of three British camps, attacked by Patriot troops on August 6, 1780. It was a fight primarily between countrymen.

One of the six remaining original, Colonial-Era state houses and the site of Rhode Island's renouncement of the British Crown.

Monument dedicated to brave African American and Indigenous soldiers of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment

Fort Ontario was a staging ground for the British’s 1777 invasion of New York. It served as a base of operations for British, Native, and Loyalist raiding parties targeting upstate New York. In 1782, the British committed a full-time garrison to the fort.

In the days leading up the Battle of Lexington and Concord, James Barrett stored military supplies, including small cannons, from that were smuggled out of Boston amid rising tensions with the British.

One of the many forts that dotted the landscape around Charleston, Patriots seized this fortification and raised the Moultrie flag, which bears resemblance to the modern standard of South Carolina.

Colonel John Taylor , an Englishman by birth, served in the Revolution with the 4th Hunterdon Militia and eventually rose to general. This mill played an important role in the Revolution as a grain...

A home to a Quaker family, it served as a hospital following the Battle of Red Bank.

The Battle of Monmouth took place on June 28, 1778, between the Continental Army and British forces, and is now preserved as Monmouth Battlefield State Park.

Site of Fort Machias and earthworks facing Machias Bay Maine Historic Preservation Commission Fort Machias was built in 1775 as a four-gun battery that guarded the mouth of the Machias River in...

Historic Burnham Tavern Historical Marker Database Just off Route 1 in Machias sits the Burnham Tavern, built in 1770. Inside its yellow clapboard walls, a group of townspeople hatched a plan in June...