Peeples Valley Pioneer Cemetery

Column 1

Johnson 1865 • John Fry 1877 • Wycoff • Anna M. Smith 1880 • Baby Hamilton 1883 • Joseph Hodge 1885 • Thomas Hodge 1892 • Aggie Hodge 1892

Column 2

Maggie Hodge 1892 • Lillie Hodge 1892 • Jerry Holbrook ...

Trader with Pack Horse

Roads and paths allowed trade between

the Cherokee and early traders. In 1753

Robert Gouedy set up the first

permanent trading post at old Ninety Six.

Many road traces can still be seen today.

Marker can be reached from South Cambridge Road.

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Von Schmidt State Boundary Monument

This marker commemorates the iron column erected in 1876 at the southernmost tip of the boundary survey line run by Allexey W. Von Schmidt, U. S. astronomer and surveyor. The line dividing Nevada and California was based on preliminary geodetic ...

A. Brosemer Building

1889

Andrew Brosemer followed his

childhood sweetheart, Elizabeth Huberty,

from Belgium. She came with her family

from Luxembourg to Calaveras County

in 1886 to join her uncle who had

homesteaded a ranch in the 1850’s.

Andrew properly courted and married her.

Their eight children were all born in ...

First Ruritan Club

The first Ruritan Club was founded here in

Holland, Va., on May 21, 1928.

Ruritan is an organization of rural

leaders striving through community

service, fellowship and good will to

make the rural community a better place

in which to ...

19th Illinois Infantry

2nd Brigade - Stanley. — 2nd Division - Negley.

[Front Side of Marker]:

Illinois

19th Infantry.

2nd Brigade - Stanley.

2nd Division - Negley.

14th Army Corps - Thomas.

[Reverse Side of Marker]:

Commanded By

Lt. Col. Alexander W. Raffen

Sept. 20 - 1863.

12 M. to 7 P.M.

Loss 71.

Marker can ...

Von Schmidt State Boundary Monument

This marker commemorates the iron column erected in 1876 at the southernmost tip of the boundary survey line run by Allexey W. Von Schmidt, U. S. astronomer and surveyor. The line dividing Nevada and California was based on preliminary geodetic ...

War in the Philippines

The Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, and the Presidio

On April 21, 1898, the United States declared war against Spain. The immediate causes were America’s support of Cuba’s ongoing struggle against Spanish rule and the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine ...

Durlin Hotel

This property had been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on Oatman-Topock Highway, on the right when traveling north.

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Marle Hill

Birthplace of

Colgate

Whitehead Darden, Jr.

1897-1981

Soldier-Educator-Statesman

Veteran

World War I

Member of the General

Assembly

of Virginia

Member of the

United States Congress

Governor of

Virginia

President of the University

of Virginia

Delegate to the United Nations

Marker is on ...