British Gen. Cornwallis’s sword, believed to be the one surrendered to Americans at Yorktown in 1781, is on display at the ...

A shot from the past is what can literally found in Essex at the Essex Historical Society & Shipbuilding Museum.

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - When the shot heard round the world was fired on April 19th 1775, the first American soldiers took up arms, fighting for the independence of our young nation.