United Daughters of the Confederacy Monuments

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

When Miss Massie Garst died in 1960, she bequested the Hanging Rock and Buzzard’s Roost to the Virginia Division United Daughters of the Confederacy. She will that this site be preserved as memorial to the brave soldiers ...

Infusing Style and Sophistication:

The Influence of Maximilian Godefroy

For its first 25 years, the burying ground remained a simple place characterized by plain grave markers. After 1810, tastes changed and First Presbyterian Church's leading public figures demanded the ornate.

The most dramatic change was a ...

President's House

Circa 1770

Built as the parsonage of

St. Philip's Church and home

of the Reverend Robert Smith,

The College of Charleston's

first president (1790~1797).

The College's initial classes

were held in 1785 on the

ground floor.

The house is the ...

Westminster Burying Ground

Westminster's origins stretch back to 1786 when local Scots-Irish Presbyterians acquired land here for a new burial ground, a mile or so from the center of the growing town of some 12,000. First Presbyterian Church included many of Baltimore's most ...

Garden Cemetery

Corner of Spruce and Cemetery

The Garden Cemetery was established in the late 1800's. Interred here are generations of prominent Carson Valley families. All who are laid to rest here are part of the history of this community, and their contributions ...

Lone Cedar Tree

Although willows grew along the banks of the streams a lone cedar tree near this spot became Utah's first famous landmark. Someone in a moment of thoughtlessness cut it down, leaving only the stump which is a part of this ...

The Historical Carbonado Saloon

This structure was a close relative to the Carbon Hill Coal Company’s brick store that sat directly across from it on Pershing Avenue. Right around 1880, this building held Carbonado’s first Post Office. It’s known that a barber shop once ...

Two Future Presidents In Wartime Retreat

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

On June 21, 1864, two future presidents marched with Major General David Hunter’s Army of Western Virginia on its retreat from Lynchburg to West Virginia by way of Hanging Rock and the old New Castle Turnpike.

Colonel ...

Thomas J. Malone Bridge / Gaston's Mill

"Thomas J. Malone Bridge"

This covered bridge stood in the 1870s over Middle Run, on State Route 154, between Lisbon and Elkton, Elkrun Township. It was converted to a storage shed and moved twice by the Elkrun Township Trustees. Mr. Malone, ...

McCausland Attacks

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

Near the site, on the morning of June 21, 1864, Union Major General David Hunter’s ambulances, artillery, and supply and munitions wagons crossed the ford at Mason’s Creek. The wagon train stalled, and was left unprotected because ...