Blackford County Civil War Honor Roll

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In Honor of All

Civil War Veterans

of Blackford County

[ Row One ]

Henry B. Adams • Watson Adams • William W. Adams • David V. Addison • Philip H. Albright • Elijah ...

Neighborhoods at Tredegar

[Three] communities grew up around the Tredegar Iron Works: Oregon Hill, Penitentiary Bottom, and Gamble’s Hill. Today little remains of these communities. A part of Oregon hill still survives, but Penitentiary Bottom and Gamble’s Hill are both gone, torn down ...

Isam W. Seaton (1823-1903) and James H. Seaton (1828-1913)

In memory of Bureau County Pioneers. Sunk the first third Vein Coal mine in Hall Township in 1879. Sold in 1888 to C.W. & V. Coal Co. Mine closed in 1913. The town of Seatonville located on land owned by ...

Confederate Works

Remains of breast-

works on this hill

mark a line of works

built by the Confed-

erates to protect Mill

Creek Bridge.

Marker is on Devil's Racetrack Road (Local Route 1009), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Forest City Confederate Memorial

To the memory of

Capt. H.D. Lee

and Company D 16th Regiment,

who were the first to leave from

Rutherford County for the

War Between The States

June 3rd, 1861, and

Capt. J.B. Eaves

and Company I 50th Regiment,

who left in April 1862.

Both companies departed ...

Adapting Power

The Raceway and Earlier Uses of the Site

This raceway brought water from the James River and Kanawha Canal to power waterwheels, and later turbines, that drove machinery. During its earliest use, the raceway contained at least two overshot waterwheels that ...

Johnstonville Historic District

Johnstonville Community Clubhouse

Built in 1915 as the Johnstonville School. The school closed its doors in late 1945 and the building became the Johnstonville Community Clubhouse. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in America on November ...

22nd Michigan Infantry

!st Brigade - 1st Division

[Front Side of Marker]

22nd Michigan - Infantry

1st Brigade - 1st Division - Reserve Corps.

[Reverse Side of Marker]

Michigan

To her Twenty-Second Regiment of Infantry

Commanded

By Colonel Heber LeFavour, Lieut. Colonel William ...

Rutherford County Memorial

In (sic) memorian

Rutherford County boys who made the

supreme sacrifice

[List of names]

Marker is on E. Main Street 0.1 miles east of Mill Street, in the median.

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Washington’s Road

By order of Colonel Bouquet, George Washington’s troops opened this road from Fort Cumberland to Reas-town (Bedford, Pa.) during July 1758. Bouquet and Washington conferred half way between these places July 30, 1758.

Marker is on U.S. 220, on the right ...