Site of The Taylor Mansion

John N. Taylor, an owner of K.T. & K. Pottery Company built a three story Victorian mansion on this site and was once visited here by President William McKinley. The home was demolished to allow construction of the new City ...

Rutherfoord’s Mill

Thomas Rutherfoord, a Scottish immigrant, built a flour mill on this site around 1800, using water power from the James River and Kanawha Canal. The ruins of the stone foundation can still be seen. Grain milling was the earliest industrial ...

Union Artillery at the Morris Farm

A point approximately 400 yards in front of you marks the center of a line of Union cannons positioned on the Morris Farm on March 19, 1865. These massed guns played a significant role in blunting the final Confederate attacks ...

"...one of the pleasantest summer resorts on the Potomac"

Tourism thrived on the island after Dr. Joseph McWilliams built a steamboat wharf in 1868. Dr. McWilliams enlarged his home to make room for a growing number of summer visitors from Baltimore and Washington. he also added cottages, a dining ...

Diamond Theater

In 1907, the First United Presyterian Church was converted into retail shops (1st floor) and a theater (2nd floor) called the Bijou, later renamed the Diamond. Vaudeville and 10 minute movies were featured. It closed in 1920.

Marker is at the ...

Ceramic Theater

East Liverpool's largest and most elegant theater opened in 1904. A stage theater with seating for 1200, it offered first run plays, star performers, high school graduations and movies. It was razed in 1961.

Marker is on East 4th Street 0 ...

Civil War on the Beverly & Fairmont Turnpike

"A few dozen of us who had been swapping shots with the enemy's skirmishers, grew tired of the result less battle and by a common impulse - and I think without orders or officers, ran forward into the woods and ...

Merging of the Armies

Sherman’s Right Wing Arrives

(Preface):The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the “March to the Sea.” Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in ...

The American Theater

Originally built as a Vaudeville house, the American Theater hosted its premier performance on Christmas Day 1909. With the advent of film, the American was converted to a movie theater in 1918.

A major fire destroyed the structure on May 24, ...

Camp of the Pioneers

This tablet marks the camp

of the pioneers constructing

the Williamson Road.

Weather conditions delaying the

construction. Canoes were built

and used from this camp to

Apple Island

1792-93

Placed by

Wellsboro Chapter

Daughters of the American

Revolution

1930

Marker is at the intersection of Susquehanna Trail (Business U.S. 15) and Spencer ...