[ East face ]
The American Revolution
1775 • • • 1783
“America’s Most Famous Cannon”
Sept. 21, 1780 • John Jacob Peterson of African descent • and Moses Sherwood of Van Cortlandt 3rd West, Militia took it to Croton Pt. . . . — — Map (db m23356) HM
[ south side ]
To The Memory Of
The Soldiers and Sailors From
The Town of Cortlandt
Who Served in the Civil War
1861 - 1865
[ bronze plaque on north side ]
Erected by The
Citizens of The
Town of Cortlandt
Through . . . — — Map (db m37082) HM
[ West face ]
Dedicated to the Memory of the Men of F.D.N.Y. Engine 54 Ladder 4 Battalion 9
Battalion Chief Edward Geraghty – Battalion 9
Captain David Wooley – Ladder 4
Lieutenant Daniel O’Callaghan – Ladder 4 . . . — — Map (db m22622) HM
The City Of Peekskill
Honors Those Who Gave
Their Lives In Service
To Our Country
[ far left panel ]
World War I
Roy E. Adams • Cortlandt B. Baxter • James W. Bell • Lorne B. Craig • Matthew J. Cunningham • Clarence T. Curry • . . . — — Map (db m37084) WM
To The Memory
Of Those From
Peekskill
Who Served In The
World War 1917 – 1918
Abbotts James F • Acker Charles R • Acker Clarence T • Ackerman Henry • Ackerman James • Adams Roy E • Augustowaski L • Alimonti Salvatore • Allen Frederick . . . — — Map (db m37130) HM
Presented to the people of Peekskill and dedicated to the teachers in the public, private and church schools by Chester A. Smith and Edith M. Smith in appreciation of their father, Louis H. Smith for thirty-five years a teacher in the public schools . . . — — Map (db m22632) HM
What you see below you in Travis Cove is the foundation of the River Water Intake Shed and the remains of a water pipe that were used by the Fleischmann Distillery in the early 1900s. Water from the Hudson River flowed through this pipe, was . . . — — Map (db m101125) HM
