Three Great Boat Yards, One Location

As you walk among these buildings, imagine wooden boats taking form. Picture men sweating in the hot sun as they plank a hull, caulk a seam or varnish a rail. Envision Navy officers in khaki uniforms boarding vessels for sea ...

Reuben Ford and Hopeful Baptist Church

Hopeful Meeting House began services under the ministry of Baptist pastor Reuben Ford in 1807. Ford played an important role in the post-Revolutionary struggle for religious freedom. In the 1780s, he lobbied the Virginia General Assembly on behalf of Virginia's ...

Gardette - Le Pretre House

Erected 1836 for

Joseph Coulon Gardette, Dentist

Frederic Roy, Builder

The cast iron galleries were added by

Jean Baptiste Le Pretre, Planter

who purchased the house in 1839 and

owned it until 1878.

Here on June 2, 1861 part of

Henry Ford at Richmond Hill

In 1925, Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., a leading American automobile pioneer who perfected the assembly line concept of auto manufacturing, began acquiring large tracts of land on both sides of the nearby Ogeechee River. He sponsored extensive agricultural and ...

Old Rye Fort 1675

On this site stood the stone residence of Peter Disbrow, designated by the Rye colonists as the "Rye Fort" when it was offered for protection from the Indian attack during "King Philip's War" of 1675.

Around 1728 the present frame (North) ...

Home Becomes Battlefield

The Civil War affected not only the soldiers who fought but the families whose homes and towns became battlefields. Edmund H. Chambers bought this farm in 1848 and lived here with his family until the Civil War. Although Chambers was ...

Sheridan Maneuvers East

In 1864, Brook Road provided the most direct avenue of approach from the north for Union cavalry raids on Richmond. After defeating Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry at Yellow Tavern, four miles north of here, on 11 May 1864, ...

Chattooga Academy

1836

National Register of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street (U.S. 27) and Margaret Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Military Trail

This rock marks the beginning of the Old Military Trail first used in the summer of 1840 by troops from Fort Crawford in Wisconsin when building Fort Atkinson in Iowa. It served as a highway for the movement of troops ...

Texas Tech Dairy Barn

The dairy barn and silo were constructed in 1926-27 and served as a teaching facility for 40 years. The barn was designed by Forth Worth architect W.C. Hedrick with the help of AG Dean A.H. Leidigh and Prof. W.L. Stangel. ...