Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania
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Lemoyne is in Cumberland County
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Remains of breastworks built in June 1863 to oppose an expected attack on Harrisburg by Confederate troops. Site then known as Hummel's Heights. Fort was named for General Couch, Commander, Eastern Pennsylvania Military Department. — — Map (db m26525) HM
Remains of breastworks at Eighth and Ohio Streets, built before the battle of Gettysburg, to oppose the expected Southern drive on Harrisburg. June 29, 1863, a few Confederate scouts neared here but withdrew. — — Map (db m26526) HM
Left Panel Fort Couch was built as part of the emergency fortifications erected to defend Harrisburg and nearby bridges across the Susquehanna River during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania by Confederate forces. Fort Couch was built as an . . . — — Map (db m216436) HM
As Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell’s Confederate Second Corps advanced on Harrisburg in June 1863, Union Maj. Gen. Darius N. Couch, charged with the defense of the city, recognized the need for a series of defensive fortifications to be constructed on . . . — — Map (db m167860) HM
Archaeological excavations near here in
the early 2000s uncovered a palisaded
Susquehannock village dating from the early
1600s. Fragments of iron. brass, and glass
beads indicated contact with Dutch traders
and the English settlement of . . . — — Map (db m212868) HM
