Hood’s Mill

Near here the Confederate cavalry of Major General J. E. B. Stuart entered Carroll County from Cooksville about daybreak June 29, 1863. After damaging the tracks and bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Sykesville, they marched to Westminster ...

The Lower Depot Neighborhood / The Frederick Brick Works

(North Facing Side): The Lower Depot Neighborhood

The railroad transformed 19th century America, facilitating long-distance travel and the efficient transfer of raw materials to factories and agricultural and manufactured goods to markets. For Frederick this transformation began in 1831 when the ...

Nauck: A Neighborhood History

The Nauck community has a long and diverse history. The area that now comprises the Nauck neighborhood was originally granted to John Todd and Evan Thomas in 1719. The land was later acquired by Robert Alexander and sold to John ...

Hood's

Four miles north on James River. There, on January 3, 1781, Benedict Arnold, ascending the river, was fired on by cannon. On January 10, Arnold, returning, sent ashore there a force that was ambushed by George Rogers Clark. Fort Powhatan ...

French’s Division Hood’s Left Flank

July 20. 1864. The right of Gen. S. F. French’s div. of Stewart’s A. C. [CS] rested on DeFoor's Fy. Rd. -- the left, being at Casey’s Hill 1.5 miles W., during the Battle of Peachtree Creek.

While Walthall’s & Loring’s ...

Boyhood home of John Brown

Hudson, Ohio was the boyhood home of John Brown (1800-1859.) This marker is at the very south end of East Main Street on the Ravenna Street Green.  Abolitionist John Brown came to Hudson as a boy in 1805 and lived ...

George Washington’s Childhood Home

The Washington family moved to a plantation here in 1738 when George Washington was six years old. Along with his three brothers and sister, young Washington spent most of his early life here, where, according to popular fable, he cut ...

LBJ Boyhood Home

Lyndon Johnson spent most of ten years living in this home - a decade that profoundly affected the future president's view of the world.

A neat landscape in front of you bears little resemblance to the backyard Lyndon Johnson knew. In ...

L. B. J. Boyhood Home

Sam Ealy Johnson Jr. (1877-1937) and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson (1881-1958) bought this residence in 1913. Sam, an educator and six-term Texas legislator, and Rebekah, an educator and journalist, raised five children here. The frame house was built in ...

The Neighborhood / Mysterious Departures

The Neighborhood

You can see Montezuma Castle and Castle A from here. If you look closely at the Cliffside, you might spot other ledges and caves used by the Sinagua.

The Sinagua people who made their homes here may have been a ...