Deep Roots in the Earth

The most important part of a living prairie is something you can't see without taking a shovel in hand. The dense, interlocking roots of prairie grasses make an underground structure unlike anything seen in the woodlands of the East. The ...

Revolution of 1689

1630 - 1930

Here on August 23, 1687,

the citizens of Ipswich, led by

the Reverend John Wise, denounced the levey of taxes by

the arbirary government of

Sir Edmund Andros, and from

their protest sprang the

American revolution of 1689

Marker is on North Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Cherrydale

In 1893 a branch post office at Lee Highway and Pollard Street was named Cherrydale, with reference to Dorsey Donaldson’s large cherry orchard in back of the present firehouse. Quincy Street was then known as Cherry Valley Road. Settlement in ...

Thomas E. Hart House

This house was the residence of Captain Thomas Edwards Hart, who settled on these lands in 1817, and for whom Hartsville was named. He was a Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Board of Free Schools, planter, merchant, and ...

76th New York Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 28, 1862

7:15 p.m.

2nd Brigade (Doubleday), First Division (King)

Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

76th New York Infantry

("Cortland County Regiment")

Col. W.P. Wainwright

"Waving their colors defiantly, the rebels advanced from ...

Kirk-Holden War

Racial violence in Caswell and Alamance counties in 1870 led to martial law, under Col. Geo. W. Kirk, impeachment & removal of Gov. W.W. Holden.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Memorial to Marylanders Killed in War with Mexico

"Watson Monument"

1846-7-8

Erected by the Maryland Association of Veterans of Mexican War

1903

[tablet 2]

Association of

the Veterans of the

Mexican War

1846-7-8

Surviving members

1903

Of the Army.

John A. Reese, Samuel C. Love, John A. Love, ...

Kemper Hall

Kemper Hall, boarding school for girls, dates to 1855 when St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and some dedicated Kenosha citizens signed a charter launching the Kenosha Female Seminary. In 1865, the school moved to this site, the home of U.S. Senator ...

John McCaffery Burial Site

John McCaffary was hanged in Kenosha on August 21, 1851, for the murder of his wife and buried here in an unmarked grave. Public outrage over his execution resulted in legislation that abolished the death penalty in Wisconsin on July ...

Pony Express River Streamer “New World”

[Front of Marker]

Dedicated April 3, 1997

RIO VISTA

by

James Stretesky

The Dutra Group

Barrier Systems, Inc.

Rio Vista Chamber of Commerce

Pony Express Trail Association

Sponsors are listed on bottom of base

[Back of Marker]

In 1860 – 1861 Rio Vista was located 17 miles north of here. The ...