River Wall

The Harpers Ferry & Shenandoah Manufacturing Company built this stone wall about 1848 as part of the hydraulic system for its two cotton mils and other shops downstream. This extensive retaining wall formed part of the berm separating the inner ...

Bishop William McKendree

William McKendree was born in King William County in 1757. He soon moved with his family to present-day Greensville County, and later served in the Revolutionary War. In 1786, the county licensed him to keep a tavern at his house ...

Salado Creek

Gushing limestone springs, abundant fish, flowers, and trees have long made the banks of Salado Creek a good home site.

Indians camped beside stream; Spanish explorers named it; the first Anglo-American settler was Archibald Willingham, 1851.

College and town of Salado were ...

4th Tennessee Infantry

Stewart's Brigade - Clark's Division - Polk's Corps

C.S.

4th Tennessee Infantry,

Stewart's (2d) Brig., Clark's (1st) Div., Polk's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This regiment was engaged here about 1.30 P.M. April 6, 1862 assisting Blythe's Miss. regiment in ...

Main Street Bridges

A number of bridges have been built over Salado Creek on Main Street since 1870. After the town of Salado was laid out in 1859, citizens crossed the creek using various combinations of rocks and logs. When local citizens and ...

James W. Hunter House, 1894

James Wilson Hunter (1850-1931) was a prominent Norfolk merchant, banker and civic leader. In 1894 he commissioned Boston architect W.P. Wentworth to design and build this impressive town home for his family on West Freemason Street. The design represents the ...

Water Tunnels

Tunnels increased power. Here water from the inner basin, located off to your right, flowed through a series of underground passages. With openings smaller at the downstream end - like a nozzle on a garden hose - these tunnels increased ...

Fort Ellis

To the Headwaters

Conflicts along the Bozeman Trail between Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and settlers escalated with the establishment of forts along the route in 1866. After Indians killed John Bozeman, in the Yellowstone Valley in 1867, the federal ...

Valley of Opportunity

To the Headwaters

Settlers came to the Gallatin Valley on the heels of the first Montana gold strike at Grasshopper Creek near Bannack, Montana, in 1862. As Meriwether Lewis had predicted, farmers found the valley well suited for agriculture. They planted ...

Tarleton's Movements

Near this point

Tarleton, the British cavalryman, entered

the road from the south and moved westward

to clear the fords for Cornwallis's army,

May 14, 1781. Cornwallis was moving north

on Petersburg.

Marker is on Southampton Blvd (U.S. 58) near Adams ...