The Caldwell Family

Owned these three houses. Emigrated from Ireland 1798-99. Settled in Salisbury Mills 1802. Here operated a general store, mill and tanning business.

Marker is on Orrs Mills Road (County Route 20) 0.2 miles north of Route 94 (New York Route 94). ...

Major James Breathed

"Hardest artillery fighter the war produced"

Maj. James Breathed was born near present-day Berkeley Spring, W. Va., on December 15, 1838, and moved while young with his family to Washington Co., Md. He attended St. James School in Lydia, where his ...

Belmont Bay ~ End of the Water

Occoquan Creek flows in front of you. Occoquan is an American Indian word meaning at the end of the water. The Dogue Indians may have named this creek. They lived in the area for centuries before European exploration and were ...

Early White Settlement / The Massacre of Jacob Hite

[Marker Front]:

Early White Settlement

By 1768 Indian traders and land speculators Richard Pearis (d. 1794) and Jacob Hite of Virginia acquired large tracts from the Cherokees in present-day Greenville County. Though royal authorities disputed the validity of these titles, Pearis and ...

Dr. Wm. A. Caruthers (1802-46)

Early American Novelist

One block west of this marker -- at the northwest corner of Hull and Whitaker Streets -- stood,

formerly, the residence of William Alexander Caruthers, Virginia's earliest significant novelist. He resided in Savannah for several years before his ...

Rutherford Vietnam & Korea Memorial

We built this monument for the men of Rutherford so their sacrifice shall never be forgotten and that their unconquerable spirit shall never die . . . . Now, let us push forward and build the kind of America ...

Washington Resumes the Offensive

The Battle of Monmouth

As the enemy withdrew their artillery and began withdrawing their infantry, Commander-in-Chief George Washington began a cautious offensive designed to boost American morale without risking the destruction of the Continental Army.

First, Washington sent two battalions of light ...

Miami County Navy Mothers Club 402

War Memorial

“These heroes are dead.

They died for Liberty - They died for us.

They are at rest.

They sleep in the land they made free.

Under the flag they rendered stainless.

Under the solemn pines.

The sad hemlocks.

Thompson House / Skirmish on the Blackwater

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This antebellum home, constructed ca. 1847 by Benjamin Woodson Thompson (1809 - 1876), partner in the Forsyth and Simpson sawmill enterprise in Bagdad, is the best remaining Florida Panhandle example of a symmetrical Greek Revival structure having a double verandah ...

The Compass Rose

Stockton was built on land granted by the Mexican government on January 13, 1842, to German-born Charles M. Weber and his business partner and Mexican citizen, William Gulnac. Weber later became sole owner of the land, permanently settling here two ...