The Brace Road School

In the 1830’s James Still,

Herbal Doctor of the Pines,

attended here. The

earliest of Medford’s

four rural one-room

schools, it closed in 1918.

Marker is at the intersection of Church Road and Ark Road, on the left when traveling east on Church Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Forbes Road

In 1758, after three years of war in North America with the French and Indian alliance, the British Empire launched the Forbes Expedition. The campaign began in Carlisle, the county seat for territory that extended to the Ohio River.

The British ...

The Plank Road Foreman

This statue of a Plank Road Foreman is dedicated to the establishment of the City of High Point and in honor of the men and women who worked in local industries and businesses that made it famous.

In the 1840’s and ...

The Common Road of the English Following Old Indian Trail

The colonial road from Charleston to Vicksburg followed the highway at this point. The route, used by Col. Langdon Welch on his expedition to the Mississippi in 1698, was thereafter followed by British traders. Through Taliaferro Co., it followed the ...

The Valley Railroad

Hanging Rock Battlefield Trail

The Valley Railroad, chartered February 23, 1866 and developed between 1867 and 1870, is of significance to the nation’s railroad industry. In the mid-1800’s the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad planned a railroad line to span the length ...

The Old Upper Road

Along the Old Upper Road

The Old Upper Road

In Washington’s diary it is documented the number of times he traveled this route & his visits to Col. Vanderburgh’s home on the Upper Road , which also served as a munitions depot. ...

The "3C's" Railroad

The rail line which passes just north of this site was the second railroad to serve Rock Hill. Part of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad (known locally as the 3C's), the first train on this line arrived here in ...

The P.M. & M. Railroad

From 1881 to 1931 this former

railroad station served the

12-mile line to Haddonfield.

Milk, produce, passengers

and mail were carried until

the era of cars and trucks.

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street (County Route 541) ...

The Carriage Drive and Roadways

John Jay Homestead

The original carriage drive entered the estate from the Post Road one mile north of the current Homestead driveway. In the mid-19th century, an allee (avenue) of European and copper beech trees was planted along the drive ...

Working Men of the Railroads

The backbreaking work building railroads to the West was accomplished by men, like Thomas W. Haverty from Galway, Ireland. Wielding hammers and driving spikes their labor united a country and made Atchison "The Rail Centre of Kansas" beginning with the ...