The Old Kings Road

Crossed north to south near this site. This road was constructed from 1763-1773 by the English, connecting St. Augustine north to St. Mary's River and south to New Smyrna, Florida. First originated as an Indian trail, and later improved by ...

Roads Through the Battlefield

Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863

Today, much like it was in the nineteenth century, Spotsylvania County contains very few east-west roads. The few that exist, such as Route 3 before you, are heavily used and follow the same routes as their ...

The National Road / The Interurban Electric Railway

The National Road

To George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and others, a road to the Ohio Country was essential for the United States’ development. An overland route was the way west for settlers and goods, as well as a means to transport ...

Struggle on the Orange Plank Road

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Crisis at the Crossroads

Crises followed one after another on May 5. No sooner had Grant and Meade learned about Ewell's approach on the Orange Turnpike than they discovered General A.P. Hill's corps moving up the Orange Plank road. ...

Southern Pacific Railroad Jail

Approximately 3,000 men labored on railroad construction up and over the Tehachapi Mountains in the 1870s.

It took over three years for the line to be completed through Kern County. As the railroad slowly progressed through the county, settlements sprang up ...

The Culpeper Mine Road

The road trace in front of you is the Culpeper Mine Road, typical of the woods trails that composed the primitive transportation network in the Wilderness. Even a path like this possessed military significance, and Confederate troops from the famous ...

A Station on the Underground Railroad

Tradition says Eliza Harris of Uncle Tom's cabin fame rested here in her flight to Canada

Marker is on Indiana Route 1 0.1 miles north of Balbec Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Tenafly Railroad Station

Built in 1872 when George Huyler donated the land and a third of the cost. Residents and the Northern Railroad of New Jersey shared equally in the balance. Designed in High Victorian Gothic by Architect Daniel T. Atwood, the station ...

The Old Kentucky Road

Immigrant Route through Middle Tennessee

Marker is on Tennessee Route 136, on the right when traveling north.

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The Battle of Harmon Road

The Breakthrough Trail

On the final day of the Battle of Peebles’ Farm, October 2, 1864, Union troops of Brigadier General Gershom Mott’s Third Division, Second Army Corps, moved against the Confederate breastworks at the Hart Farm. Mott had orders to ...