Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge / Bridging The Black Warrior

(Front):Home Guard Defended Covered Bridge3 April 1865 - Brig Gen John T. Croxton’s Cavalry Brigade departed camp at Johnson’s Ferry (Old Lock 17 area) to the Watermelon Road ending in Northport. As the Union troops entered Northport, the Methodist Church ...

The Munsey Building

When this structure was completed in 1911, it was Baltimore's tallest office building. Of steel construction, faced with Bedford limestone on the lower floors, and brick and terra cotta above, the building stands as a monument of sorts to the ...

To Commemorate the Inauguration of a Chemical Industry in Americ

The Manufacture of Illuminating Gas

The first franchise in America to produce and distribute gas for public use was granted in 1816 by this city to the Baltimore Gas Light Company, established by Rembradnt Peale, William Lorman, James Mosher, Robert ...

Flame of Freedom / Relighting the Flame

(Right Marker):

Flame of Freedom

1919 - 1969

Dedicated to the

Glory of God

A fitting reminder of this precious heritage,

a tribute to all who offered their lives to

preserve it. A gift to our Community by the

American Legion to celebrate its founding

and ...

The James Johnston House

James Johnston, a forty-niner from Ohio, established a homestead on this wild, romantic vista of sloping fields and ocean shore in 1853. For his Californiano bride, Petra Maria de Jara, he built this typical eastern saltbox, whose origins from the ...

This monument, until 1983 located on the Belle Grove Lawn

200 yards to the west, identified the unmarked graves of

John Hipkins, died 1804; his wife Elisabeth Pratt 1754-1829; their only child Fanny Bernard 1774-1801; and her youngest children; Eliza 1794-1803 and William Bernard, Jr. 1796-1822; also five infant children of ...

Meroney’s Theatre

When Dr. L. J. Meroney and his sister Lena built the theater in 1905, its large seating capacity attracted professional troupes to Salisbury. Two of the most famous thespians of the day, the “Divine” Sarah Bernhardt and the glamorous Lillian ...

The New World Mining District

Prospectors discovered rich mineral deposits in the Beartooth Mountains near here in 1874. Christened the New World Mining District, the area included claims with colorful names like Miner’s Delight, Hidden Treasure, Southern Spy and Silver King. The miners established a ...

In Memory of the Oklahoma City tragedy

April 19, 1995

Purple: Courage

White: Innocence

Blue: Statehood (Our Flag)

Yellow: Hope

The Citizens of Stafford County

April 19, 1996

In honor of those who came to their aid

Marker can be reached from Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 630) near Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1).

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The Soldier’s Monument

Not for themselves

but

for their country

September 17, 1862

Marker is on Boonsboro Pike (State Highway 34), on the right when traveling east.

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