Gateposts from the Northern Entrance to Camp Sherman

This post, and the post on the opposite side of the road, were unearthed nearby during a road widening project in the summer of 2006. They were part of a set of four concrete posts erected in October 1919 at ...

Boom, Then Bust

"From here, the first log in the race,

Went forth to seek a dwelling place."

Harriet Bishop, Minnesota, Then and Now, 1869

The St. Croix River ranked second only to the Mississippi as a carrier of logs and lumber. The white pine logs ...

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

Niles, California

“May God continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.” The gold spike ceremony at Promontory, Utah in May of 1869 united the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union ...

The John Martin Shuford Gravesite

Buried here is Loyalist John Martin Shuford who died June 22, 1780 of wounds received in the Battle of Ramsour's Mill. His grave was originally marked with an old headstone and footstone. In 1997 the Lincoln County Historical Association and ...

Storming the Fort

... The men nobly responded to their officers' call and pour over the edge of the ditch into the dry moat, and then, scrambling up the bank, some on hands and knees, some stepping on their bayonets thrust into the ...

The Homestake Gold Mine and Open Cut

The Homestake lode, the basis for the great Homestake Mining Company, was discovered by Moses Manuel, who, with his brother Fred, had come to the Black Hills in 1875. The two brothers, along with Hank Harney, officially located the claim ...

The Rev. Thomas Barton

Memorial Stone to

The Rev. Thomas Barton

1730 – 1780

British Missionary who served for 19 years with distinction as third rector of St. James Church 1759-1778. True to his ordination vows, he remained loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution. Political ...

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

Half a mile north from here was fought

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

between the Whigs and Tories, June 20, 1780.

Colonel Francis Locke

Commanded the Whig Army

Marker is at the intersection of Court Square and North Aspen Street, on the left when traveling ...

Appomattox Campaign (Sutherland Station)

At Sutherland Station, on 2 Apr. 1865, the Confederates made a last attempt to maintain control of the South Side Railroad. Confederate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth organized the defense before returning to the main line in Petersburg. Brig. Gen. John ...

The Great Baltimore Fire

On Sunday morning, February 7, 1904, a spark ignited blankets and cotton goods in the firm of John E. Hurst and Company, which stood between Hopkins Place and Liberty on the south side of German (now Redwood) Street. Flames leapt ...