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Cornwall Monument, image by Stormont Agricultural Society

Pictures taken from the opening ceremony (Sept 2017) by the Stormont Agricultural Society

Due in part to interrupted cotton imports caused by the Civil War, the Lancashire Cotton Famine saw a depression of the textile industry in the area. In solidarity with the workers, the Union states sent a shipment of essential supplies – including…

In a skirmish, between Union soldiers guarding a civilian wagon and Confederate forces, 13 civilians and 3 Union soldiers died. This tablet is dedicated to the fallen.

Craft Court, the offices of the Shepherds Bush Housing Group, was named after William and Ellen Craft. The Crafts escaped enslavement in the United States, travelling to Britain to avoid recapture following the introduction of the Fugitive Slave Act…

Erected on November 10th, 1998, the Cranes Nest Battlefield Tablet sits quietly on a mountainside backroad in Dickenson County, Virginia. The monument, composed of a granite tablet set upon a granite base, is dedicated to the Confederate soldiers who…