Patriot Departs to Ride with Marion

During the American Revolution, August 1780, General Francis Marion was ordered by General Gates to roam the Santee burning boats. Being successfully engaged in this task, he learned of Gates’ defeat at Camden. This Patriot left his family at Scott's ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

Position of the Confederate Left Wing

On the main Confederate line, eight miles long, which here crossed the Old Church Road, the Federal Army, June 3, 1864, made numerous futile and costly charges. The heaviest of these were three miles southeastward ...

The Battle At Droop Mountain

November 6, 1863

Nearly five months after West Virginia was admitted into the Union, the Confederate army of Brigadier General John Echols still occupied the prosperous Greenbrier Valley region of the new state. From its headquarters in Lewisburg, his army was ...

Christ Church Cathedral

Christ Church

Cathedral

Diocese of Connecticut

Episcopal

Founded as Christ Church 1762

Set Apart as Cathedral 1919

Present Building 1828

The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas

Bishop of Connecticut

The Very Rev. Mark B. Pendleton

Dean

Canon Kevin Jones

Precentor & director of Music

The Very Rev. Richard H. Mansfield, Jr.

Dean ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

Main Line of Anderson’s Left Wing

The Confederate earthworks here crossing this road were occupied May 31 – June 12, 1864, by the Left Division “Fields” of the First Corps. Then commanded by R.H. Anderson. Heavily attacked on June 3, this ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

The Confederate Main Line

Here Longstreet’s Corps, with Breckinridge and A.P. Hill’s Corps to the southward, repulsed on June 3, 1864, fourteen assaults from the East against the confederate main line. The federal losses, about 7000, were the heaviest ever sustained ...

Enterprise and Iron

By 1844, Tredegar Iron Works managers used this building for an office and as a residence. After the Civil War, it became the principal iron works office. It was rebuilt after being damaged by fire in 1903. During most of ...

World's First Pay Telephone

World's

First Pay Telephone

Invented By William Gray

And Developed By George A. Long

Was Installed On This Corner In 1889

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Central Row, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Our Confederate Dead

[Front]

Erected by the

James B. Gordon Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

October 1905

Winston-Salem, N.C.

[Back]

"Sleeping, but glorious,

Dead in Fame's portal,

Dead, but victorious,

Dead, but immortal!

They gave us great glory,

What more could they give?

They have left us a story,

A story to live!"

[Right]

In Camp on fame's ...

Dr. Harold B. Sightler

Psalm 78:19: Can God Furnish a Table in the Wilderness?

Interchange Named in Honor of

Dr. Harold B. Sightler

1914-1995

Founder of:

Tabernacle Baptist Church

1952-1995

Christian Schools

Children's Home

Baptist College

Tabernacle Baptist Missions International

WTBI AM & FM

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Champion of Old Time Religion

Marker is on White Horse Road (U.S. 25) ...