Grant’s Headquarters

The Battle of the Wilderness

On May 5, 1864, this knoll was bordered by a second growth of scraggly pines and scrub oak. From here Grant and Meade could see little of the battle. Instead, they relied on subordinates to keep ...

Custer's 1874 Expedition

During the summer of 1874, General George Armstrong Custer led the first official government expedition to the Black Hills, which the Sioux Indians claimed as their territory. Although the United States Government officially sent this expedition of more than 1,000 ...

The Stratford Cliffs

Approximately 17 million years ago, during the Miocene Epoch, these 150-foot-high cliffs along the Potomac River formed the ancient seashore. Rich Miocene fossil deposits, which exist in the 1 1/2 -mile-long series of Horsehead, Stratford and Nomini Cliffs, can only ...

First Blood in Saunders Field

The Battle of the Wilderness

"The regiment melted away like snow. Men disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them."

-Captain Porter Parley

140th New York Infantry

Shortly after noon on May 5, the battleline of the 140th New York burst from the woods ...

6th Independent Battery, New York Artillery

1st Brigade Horse Artillery

(Around the Base):6th Independent Battery

New York Artillery

1st Brig. Horse Artillery

Cavalry Corps

(back):Occupied this position

July 3rd, 1863.

Mustered into service

June 15th, 1861.

Mustered out of service

July 8th, 1865.

Marker is on Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling south. ...

Old Eagle Tavern

The Eagle Tavern, built in the late 18th century, once stood on the site of the present Lafayette Hotel. A state coach stop on the Augusta to Macon line, the tavern owned by a Mr. A. Abercrombie was the scene ...

The Purdy Burying Ground

Pre-Revolutionary place of interment of one of Rye's early families. This tract of land was purchased by Joseph Purdy from John Budd in 1685.

Marker can be reached from Milton Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of First Wendy's Restaurant

Dave Thomas realized his boyhood dream when he opened his first hamburger restaurant on this site on November 15, 1969. Thomas changed the image of fast food by serving fresh, not frozen hamburgers, hot off the grill with a choice ...

Carversville Historic District

Historic District

Known as Mill Town 1727

and later Milton 1804.

Named Carversville 1833.

Historic

Craversville Society

Established 1971

Marker is at the intersection of Old Craversville Road and Fleecydale Road, on the right when traveling west on Old Craversville ...

Ancient Indian Fishing Grounds

Wyam Falls

Before a network of dams controlled the Columbia River it was a raging torrent. Here at Wyam Falls, known today as Celilo Falls, a vertical drop of more than 20 feet and sheer basalt bluffs on either shore forced ...