Goodrich Massacre

1630 - 1930

Ten rods east stood the

house of Benjamin Goodrich

who, with his wife and two

children, was slain by the

Indians on October 23, 1692

Marker is on North Street 0.2 miles north of Meadowview Road when traveling north.

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Fred Morgan Kirby

(1861-1940)

Pioneer of the 5 & 10 cent store sales concept. He opened his first store in Wilkes-Barre in 1884. In 1912, he merged his 96 retail stores with F. W. Woolworth to form the vast international retail chain. A philanthropist, ...

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established by Congressional legislation and approved by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865. Its purpose was "...to care for him who shall have borne the battle..." as stated in President ...

Growth of Fort Fisher, 1861-1862

In April 1861 Capt. Charles P. Bolles began building individual gun batteries at Confederate Point.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher Boulevard South (U.S. 421) near Battle Acre Road.

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Town Pond Reservoir Cridersville's Great Fire of 1918

Side A:

The Village of Cridersville was founded in 1856. With the discovery of oil in 1885 the village prospered and grew quickly. Its business district developed along Main Street in the first block east of the railroad. The Town Pond ...

Moorefield Presbyterian Church

Confederate Sanctuary

When the Civil War began, the Greek Revival-style Moorefield Presbyterian Church consisted of the main sanctuary that fronts on Main Street and the small chapel behind it. The chapel was constructed about 1847, and the sanctuary was completed in ...

History Trail

In the Civil War Fort Fisher kept the port of Wilmington open for crucial supplies from Europe. The fort finally fell in January 1865 after two of the largest sea-land battles of the war.

Marker can be reached from Fort Fisher ...

Pentucket-Haverhill

1630 - 1930

On this spot the Indians signed a deed granting Pentucket, now Haverhill, to the white settlers for three pounds ten shillings. The original deed dated November 15, 1642, is now in possession of the Haverhill Historical Society.

Marker is ...

Blockade-Running

Steam-powered blockade-runners, usually British, made 1,300 attempts to enter Southern ports with vital supplies during the Civil War. More than 1,000 of the trips succeeded.

The most successful vessels were specially built for the trade—stealthy, steam-powered, shallow-draft, low-profile, camouflaged gray phantoms.

Yet ...

Abraham Lincoln Walked Here

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Tonight, beautiful women, perfume, and the violins’ sweetness ... [yet during the war] the amputation, the blue face, the groan, the glassy eye of the dying.” Walt Whitman

At 10:30 p.m. on March 4, 1865, ...