President Buchanan’s Home

1796 – 1829

Marker is on N. Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 16) north of E Seminary Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Dr. Hugh Mercer

A physician and surgeon, practiced in the Conococheague settlement 1750 – 1755, and lived in this locality during that time. A personal friend of Washington, a general in the Revolutionary Army, he received his death wounds at the Battle of ...

To Irwinton Mills

In the limestone mansion house still standing, lived Archibald Irwin and Jean McDowell, his wife. To them were born two daughters. Jane, the elder, became the wife of William Henry Harrison, Jr., and was mistress of the White House during ...

W-G-M Turnpike

Built c. 1845 as Number 8 of the nine tollhouses on the Waynesburg-Greencastle-McConnellsburg turnpike which ran 2 miles from the Maryland state line east of Waynesboro through Mercersburg to McConnellsburg, this building is one of two extant tollhouses from this ...

Old Lorimier Cemetery

Cape Girardeau's

Oldest Shrine

Earliest Inscription 1808

In this old cemetery

gift of

Don Louis Lorimier

lie pioneers, founders, builders and defenders of our country.

Marker is on North Fountain Street.

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Cape La Croix Creek

In 1699, fathers Montigny, Davion, and St. Cosme, French missionaries erected a cross where this stream entered the Mississippi and prayed that this might be the beginning of Christianity among the Indians.

The stream has ever since been known as Cape ...

War in Grant County

Engagement at Johnson Run

During the Civil War, loyal Unionist Home Guard companies patrolled Hardy County (now Grant County) to defend it against Confederate incursions. Near here on Johnson Run on June 19, 1864, a mixed command that included men from ...

Fort Mulligan

Portecting Looney's Creek (Petersburg)

Union Col. James A. Mulligan, 23rd Illinois Infantry, supervised the construction of Fort Mulligan between August and December 1863. Known locally as Fort Hill, the work protected the South Branch Valley and its Unionist residents and also ...

The Red House

Pierre-Louis de Lorimier, French-Canadian fur trader, Indian agent, and founder of Cape Girardeau, built the Red House in the late 1790s west of this location on what is now the parking lot of St. Vincent's Church.

The Red House served as ...

Welton Park

The Petersburg Gap is a natural wonder exposing Helderberg limestone and Oriskany sandstone cliffs towering more than 800 feet above the South Branch of the Potomac River. The renowned writer and artist, David Hunter Strother whose pen name was ...