To Honor the Maker of First American Flag

Betsy Ross

[In Circle]

To Honor the Maker of First American Flag

Erected

1923

Elizabeth Griscom

ROSS

Ashbourne

Claypoole

1752

1836

BETSY ROSS

Marker can be reached from Valley Forge Road (Pennsylvania Route 23), on the left when traveling west.

Commissioners Appointed to Locate the Town of Pickens

July 27, 1868

James H. Ambler

Reese Bowen

W.T. Fields

J.E. Hagood

James Lewis

T.R. Price

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (U.S. 178) and Pendleton Street (U.S. 178) on East Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The "Columbiad" Cannon

10 inch

This 10 inch Columbiad Cannon defended Charleston Harbor from 1863 until the end of the War Between the States in 1865. It has a smooth, non-rifled, bore and fires a 10 inch round ball weighing 104 pounds. The markings ...

The Old Potomac Path

The Old Potomac Path

Originally an Indian Trail and traversed by early settlers, it later became the first coach and post road between Northern and Southern Colonies, and was called

The King’s Highway

General Washington often stopped here to visit Col. Blackburn. Over ...

The People's Community Center

Victoria, Virginia

On May 13, 1947, several African-American leaders in Lunenburg County met at First Baptist Church in Victoria to discuss the need for a centrally located building large enough to accommodate countywide gatherings and educational activities for blacks. Out of ...

The John N. Tidemann House

9 Judith Street

This Charleston Single house was constructed between 1835-1852. The house was lived in by John Tidemann, a German immigrant who arrived in Charleston in 1846 at age nineteen. He established a successful hay & grain business at ...

Confederate Cemetery / The Civil War

Side A

On the hill, 400 yards west, in a common grave shaped like a cross, lie unclaimed bodies of ninety-five Confederate soldiers, casualties of the area, including those of the Battle of Droop Mountain and the Battle of Lewisburg.

Side B

The ...

Aftermath Along the Hagerstown Turnpike

Throughout the morning of the battle, fighting raged here along the Hagerstown Turnpike. At one point, Union and Confederate forces found themselves just yards away from each other on opposite sides of this road. Afterward, commander of the Sixth Wisconsin ...

The Most Terrible Clash of Arms

As Union soldiers stepped out of the Cornfield (in front of you) at dawn, September 17, 1862, Confederate troops, aligned in the fields just behind you, unleashed a horrific volley. The single bloodiest day in American History had begun in ...

Columbia - First Capital of The Republic of Texas

In 1836 and 1837, the town of Columbia (Now West Columbia) served as the capital of the Republic of Texas. Josiah Hughes Bell, a colonist with Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, surveyed and platted Columbia in 1824 to serve ...