The Town of Courtland / Early Settlers

1819

Side A

Federal lands in this area were first sold in 1818 and quickly purchased by settlers and speculators. A group of investors calling themselves the “Courtland Land Company” and consisting of William H. Whitaker, James M. Camp, William F. Broadnax, ...

Harris-Simpson Home

Side A

This circa 1820 house is thought to be one of the oldest houses in Courtland. Occupying a lot platted by the Courtland Land Company in 1818. The house faces North toward what was once the main Tuscumbia Road. Dr. ...

The International Society of Arboriculture and the National Arbo

Jointly recognize this significant tree in the bicentennial year as having lived here during the American Revolutionary Period.

1776-1976

Marker can be reached from Cuylerville Road (New York Route 20A) ¼ mile west of Barrett Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Five Forks

Four miles south is the battlefield of Five Forks. To that point Pickett retired from Dinwiddie Courthouse in the night of March 31, 1865. Sheridan, following, attacked him in the afternoon of April 1, 1865. The Confederates, outnumbered and surrounded, ...

Third Marathon County Courthouse

These granite blocks were part of the third Marathon County Courthouse completed in May 1892, it stood on the block bounded by Third, Scott, Fourth and Jefferson Streets. This courthouse was razed in April, 1955.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Gandolfo Theater

1917

Built by John Gandolfo, this brick landmark served as a 635 seat theater and vaudeville house, a WW II USO canteen and was a center of community activity from 1917 to 1950. The third floor ballroom was destroyed by fire ...

Jarratt's Station

On 8 May 1864 Jarratt's Station, a nearby depot on the Petersburg Railroad, was the subject of a Union cavalry raid. Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz led his division on a series of raids in early May to cut the ...

The Cos Cob Art Colony

The Cos Cob Art Colony

During the early 1890s American impressionist artists John H. Twachtman and J. Alden Weir began teaching summer art classes here in Cos Cob to students of New York's Art Students League. Edward and Josephine Holley ran ...

Burrow's Battery

McClernand's Division

(front)

Ohio

14th Battery Light Artillery,

Commanded by

Capt. Jerome B. Burrows, (Wounded)

McClernand's (1st) Division,

Army of the Tennessee.

(back)

This battery of 6 guns went into action here at 9 a.m.,

April 6, 1862. Its loss was 4 men killed; 1 officer and 25 men wounded; ...

General Thomas Churchill

General Thomas Churchill ***

Gen. Thomas James Churchill commanded the brigade of Texas dismounted cavalry that delivered the crushing blow to the Union right. Churchill had come a long way home to lead the assault. ***

Thomas James Churchill was born near ...