Within Hazelbank Park sits a memorial stone dedicated to a Huguenot Soldier named Gideon Bonnivert. The diaries he wrote recorded the historic landings of King William III’s (“William of Orange”) massive European Army in 1690. His army went on to defeat King James VII of Scotland and Ireland at the Battle of The Boyne near the town of Drogheda on July 1, 1690. Gideon Bonnivert’s diary containing his accounts of the landing can be found at the British Museum in London. A smaller stone memorial sits next to the Gideon Stone…
