The Meeting of the Rivers

Long known to the Indian who used the two great rivers as his highways for trade and war, this junction of the Ohio and the Mississippi was first sighted by Europeans when Marquette and Joliet glided past in 1673. Ten ...

Newbury

1630 - 1930

Indian region called Quascacunquen. Settled 1635 under leadership of the puritan clergyman Thomas Parker.

Marker is on Main Street (Alternate Massachusetts Route 1), on the right when traveling north.

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Woodbine Cemetery

The Soldiers’ Section

During the Civil War, Woodbine Cemetery was Harrisonburg’s principal burial ground. Chartered in March 1850, it opened later that year after the city’s first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, sold 2.5 acres of his property to the cemetery company. The ...

Rough Point & Its Neighbors: Preserved Houses

This part of Bellevue Avenue reflects the architectural variety of 19th century Newport houses, from the Gothic Revival and Second Empire French villas of the early 1850s to the Stick Style cottages of the 1870s and the Beaux Arts ...

Defense of Snodgrass Hill

Thomas' stand here saved the Union army from destruction

After the Union right collapsed on the afternoon of September 20, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas rallied all the Federals he could find and positioned them on this ridge. Determined stands by ...

Monroe County W.W. II Honor Roll

1941 ————— 1945

The landscaping on these grounds was done

In Memory of

those from Monroe County

who made the Supreme Sacrifice

in World War II

[ Row One ]

Lawrence R. Abram • Roscoe D. Adamson • Paul Edwin Alexexander • ...

McNeill’s Rangers

“Hurah for McNeal”

Harrisonburg is associated with the exploits of McNeill’s Rangers, a famous Confederate partisan unit. In 1862, John Hanson McNeill, a native of Hardy County in present-day West Virginia, recruited men for Co. E, 18th Virginia Cavalry. With McNeill ...

Martha Jane Ogle Cabin

This cabin is the first house built in what is now Gatlinburg. About 1802, William Ogle selected a building site near here, in what he called "The Land of Paradise." Ogle cut and hewed the logs for the house then ...

Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference School

The National Register

of Historic Places:

Old Cokesbury and

Masonic Female College

and Conference School

Marker is at the intersection of College Drive and Asbury Road on College Drive.

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Steamboats, Trains, and Barges

The Mississippi River has long been a major artery for trade and transportation.

For thousands of years, Indians traveled on the river by canoe. By the 1850s, rivertowns like Hastings boomed as steamboats brought settlers into the region. The steamboat era ...