The Doty Settlement / The Pioneer Farmstead

Side A: The Doty Settlement

As Oxford Township was developing in the mid-1800s, a cluster of farmsteads near its northern border was designated the "Doty Settlement." As was the custom, the community took its name from a prominent family in the ...

Army of Northern Virginia

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

General Robert E. Lee, Commanding

September 17, 1862.

General Longstreet's Command, including D.H. Hill's Division of Jackson's Command, temporarily attached, occupied the right and center of the Confederate line, extending from the Antietam Creek South of Sharpsburg, in a ...

The Mormon Trail

(South Fork)

Between 1846 and 1869, thousands of Mormon immigrants traversed the Great Plains enroute to sanctuary in the Great Basin of the Rocky Mountains. The main route ran through Nebraska, paralleling the Platte River.

A cholera epidemic in the fall of ...

The Turnpike Movement in Virginia, 1825-1835

The end of the eighteenth century saw Virginia change from an agriculture-based society to one of urban centers. Once British trade restrictions were removed after the War of 1812, river ports such as Alexandria, Fredericksburg, and Richmond began to prosper. ...

Site of the Claremont Inn

Erected in 1788 as a residence

the building became a public

tavern before the Civil War.

It was acquired by the City

in 1878 and was operated as a

restaurant until its demolition

in 1950.

Marker is on Riverside Drive, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

The Rev. Dr. William H. Sheppard

(28 May 1865 – 25 Nov. 1927)

Born in Waynesboro to former slaves, William H. Sheppard became a Presbyterian missionary to the Belgian colony of Congo Free State in 1890. He and others opposed King Leopold II of Belgium, who encouraged ...

Middle Redoubt of the American Army   1776

This marks the Middle Redoubt

built by

the American Army 1776

At this point on Nov. 16, 1776

under

General Washington

occurred some of the

Fiercest fighting of

the Battle of

Washington Heights

Erected by

Washington Heights Chapter

N. S. D. A. R.

May 5, 1929

Marker can be reached from W 155th Street, ...

Army of Northern Virginia

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

General Robert E. Lee, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

At about 6 a.m. Jackson became heavily engaged in resisting an attempt of Hooker's Corps of the Army of the Potomac to turn the left flank of ...

The Medical College of Georgia

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The Medical College of Georgia, oldest school of medicine in Georgia, was incorporated in 1828 as the Medical Academy of Georgia. Of the 23 original board of Trustees, 5 were from the City of Augusta and three of these were ...

The Elusive Francis Marion: Guerrilla Commander

Disastrous American defeats during the Revolutionary War at Charleston and Camden in the summer of 1780 led many South Carolinians to give up the fight for independence. But Francis Marion carried on the struggle, waging a guerrilla war in the ...