Our Local Indian Heritage

The land west of the Allegheny Mountains was exclusively the Indians until the mid 1700's. The local Indians were part of the Shawanese tribe and a sub-division of the Algonquin Nation-one of the most warlike. With the coming of the ...

Lieut. Ebenezer Sheldon's Fort

1630 - 1930

Built in 1740 on this site. The first Proprietor's Meeting in Fall Town was held here in 1741. The Lieutenant's son Eliakim was shot by Indians in 1747 while working west of the fort walls.

Marker is on Northfield ...

The Valley of Utoy Creek

Federal Forces conducting siege operations on North & West fronts of Atlanta's fortified lines were, at intervals, moved S. toward East Point, in attempts to seize the 2 railroads that entered the city from the Southwest.

Palmers XIV A.C. marched from ...

First Settler

1630 - 1930

Here stood the cabin of Richard Tarr founder of the Tarr Family on Cape Ann. He came to Marblehead in 1680, then settled in Sacco, Maine. Driven thence by Indians, he became the first settler of Sandy Bay ...

Bear Skin Neck

1630 - 1930

Named from a bear caught by the tide and killed in 1700. Commercial and shipbuilding center of Rockport for 160 years. First dock built here 1743. Sandy Bay Pier Company organized 1809. Site of Stone Fort and Sea ...

Trading Path

Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.

Marker is at the intersection of East Center Street and N. 7th Street, on the right when traveling east on East ...

Old Burial Hill

1630 - 1930

Established in 1638, one of the oldest graveyards in New England. Site of first meetinghouse. Six hundred Revolutionary heroes and several early pastors were interred at the top of the hill.

Marker is at the intersection of Orne Street ...

113th Ohio Infantry

John Beatty's Brigade - Davis' Division

113th Ohio Infantry.

John Beatty's Brig., Davis' Div., 14th Corps.

Maj. Lyne S. Sullivant.

Nov. 25, 1863.Davis' Division, in which this regiment served, was concentrated at Caldwell's crossing opposite the mouth of the west Chickamauga, previous to the ...

David H. and Jerusha Dyches McFadin House

Built 1850 by David H. and Jerusha Dyches McFadin, born in Tennessee, came to Texas 1828; fought in Battle of San Jacinto. House has 27” native stone walls. By its cool, perpetual spring, Confederates camped on way to Civil War.

Marker ...

British Landing Prevented

July 17, 1776

Capt. Rezin Beall (later Brig. Gen. in "Flying Camp") was wounded here in repulse of British efforts to cross to mainland from St. George's Island. Fighting continued until July 29, Lord Dunmore, commanding 72 marauding British vessels on ...