Earl Purdy

In recognition of

Earl Purdy

The builder, developer and manager of the Dodge Ridge Ski Area from 1950 to 1976.

Marker can be reached from Dodge Ridge Loop Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hon. Jesse M. Mayo

In Memoriam

Hon. Jesse M. Mayo

1903 – 1953

State Senator, author

of legislation creating

Columbia Historic State Park

Marker is at the intersection of Parrots Ferry Road (County Route E14) and Washington Street on Parrots Ferry Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Welcome to Italian Bar

At this historical site in 1850, over 3,000 prospectors worked. Over 10 million Dollars in Gold was extracted from Italian Bar & nearby “diggins”.

It is now private property owned by The Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association.

No camping without permission – Members ...

Oakdale Railroad Depot

Original depot, brought from Peters, California in 1871 was place several feet south and east of present location. It was destroyed by fire. The new depot was built on its current site, adjacent to F Street between railroad tracks and ...

Ceremonial Mound

Excavations have shown that building stood on several earlier levels of this mound.

We do not know how big those buildings were.

This structure is approximately the size of the posthole pattern in the architecture building (Mound B)

Marker can be reached ...

Burial Mound

(Mound C)

Native American Indian of the Mississippian culture were buried in this cemetery mound sometime in the A.D. 1200s. First excavated in 1932 by owner Col. Fain King, the mound was referred to as “Mound C”. A building was constructed ...

Historic American Beach

American Beach was established in 1935 under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln Lewis, one of seven co-founders of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company, and one of Florida’s first black millionaires. His vision was to create a beach resort as a ...

POW-MIA

You Are Not Forgotten

Dedicated to the

Prisoners of War and those

Missing in Action. Whose

supreme sacrifice helped

to keep our nation free.

Turn you to the stronghold.

Ye prisoners of hope: even

today do I declare that I

will render double unto thee.

Zec. 9:12

Marker is on U.S. ...

Mountain Cliffs - Cherokee Geology

[Left-Side of Text]: Mountain Cliffs

As you walk along this path, you see piles of rock (sandstone) built up in layers. It is a hard rock that forms the cap of Lookout Mountain and the other ranges of the Cumberland Plateau. ...

Hazel Plain

In 1860, Benjamin Chinn and his family lived here in a two-and-a-half story frame farmhouse. Known as "Hazel Plain," the modest plantation comprised several hundred acres. The property was typical of those in Prince William County, yielding wheat, corn, oats, ...