Father & Son Canal Builders

The Waterways

Marshall Parks, Sr.

1786-1840

The Dismal Swamp Canal, located about six miles west of here, officially opened in 1805. Dug completely by hand, its shallow depth limited navigation to flat boats and lighters manually poled or towed from ...

Palace Grand Theatre/Le théâtre Grand Palace

[English:]

“Arizona” Charlie Meadows, showman and self-made heroic figure built a lavish structure in 1899 to prospect gold directly from the miner’s pokes. Hugely successful over its first winter, the theatre offered vaudeville acts, comedy, music and melodrama – all on ...

Church of the Redeemer

This was Lot 44 of the original town plan. A log church was built here in 1815. The Presbyterians used it, and built the present church in 1817. In 1856, a Catholic congregation bought the building, selling to the Northern ...

West College: A National Historic Landmark

Walking Tour Stop 16

West College – known affectionately as Old West – traces its roots to February 1803, when the college’s main building burned to the ground after four years of costly construction. In a bind, the college trustees appealed ...

Moore County / Bedford County

Moore County

Established 1871; named in honor of

Major Gen. William Moore

He settled in Tennessee in 1808, coming from Kentucky. Commanded a company in the Creek War; finished the War of 1812 as a Major General. Member of the State House of ...

The Forbes Road

In 1758, after three years of war in North America with the French and Indian alliance, the British Empire launched the Forbes Expedition. The campaign began in Carlisle, the county seat for territory that extended to the Ohio River.

The British ...

Great Bridge Marshall Memorial

Fauquier County, Virginia

Officers of the Culpeper Minute Battalion

At the Battle of Great Bridge

Major Thomas Marshall (1730-1802)

Member, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Virginia Conventions

Colonel, 3rd Virginia Regiment

Colonel, Virginia Sate Artillery Regiment

Member, Virginia General Assembly

And his son

Lieutenant John Marshall (1755-1835)

Captain, 11th Virginia ...

The Benjamin Rush Campus of Dickinson College

Named for Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) of Philadelphia, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the most eminent physician of his day. Prime mover in securing the college charter.

Marker is on W High Street (U.S. 11), on the left when ...

The Day is Our Own!

I then saw the horrors of war in perfection, worse than can be imagined; 10 and 12 bullets thro’ many; limbs broke in 2 or 3 places…Good God, what a sight! Captain Richard Kidder Meade, Southampton District, 2nd Virginia Regiment

British ...

Central United Methodist Church

[Main Marker In Tagalog:]

Kauna-unahang Iglesia ng Protestante sa Pilipinas. Nagsimula noong Marso 5,1899 upang mangaral sa mga Pilipino. Pinasinayaan ang unang Kapilya sa Pook na ito noong Disyembere 23,1901. Pinalitan ng Batong gusali noong 1906. Inayos at naging ...