Sam Bass and the Big Springs Robbery

The first and greatest robbery of a Union Pacific train took place near here on the night of September 18, 1877. The legendary Sam Bass and five companions, after capturing John Barnhart, station-master, and destroying the telegraph, forced Union Pacific ...

The Middle Valley Trap Rock & Mine Company

Tettertown Preserve

Lawrence Hager Trimmer (1847-1909) was a commanding presence in the Middle Valley community, having represented the Second District of Hunterdon County, in the New Jersey State Assembly, from 1889-1891. As a prominent businessman he founded and served as ...

The Teetertown Mill

Tettertown Preserve

In 1760, a farmer named Asher Mott (1739-?) inherited a gristmill and a 45 acre "plantation" following the death of his father, William. The mill was located downstream from this point along Hollow Brook (also known as Mill Creek). ...

Wythe County Poorhouse Farm

The 340-acre Wythe County Poorhouse Farm was established in 1858 for the care of the elderly, disabled, and impoverished people of Wythe County. It was governed by the Wythe County Board of Supervisors and owned by the county until 1957 ...

Cook & Brother Confederate Armory

To this building in 1862 was brought the machinery of the armory established in New Orleans at the outbreak of the War by Ferdinand W.C. and Francis L. Cook, recent English immigrants, the former a skilled engineer for the manufacture ...

Bobby Jones and the Beginning of the Grand Slam

On the golf links of the Forrest Hills-Ricker Hotel, Bobby Jones won the Southeastern Open of 1930. He went on to victory that year in the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur –- golf’s Grand Slam and ...

They Died for the Rights of the Working Man

These men were killed in Honea Path on September 6, 1934 in the General Textile Strike. This monument is dedicated to their memory, to their families and to all workers.

Claude Cannon, E.M. Knight

Lee Crawford, Maxie Peterson

Ira Davis, C.L. Rucker

Thomas Yarborough

Marker ...

The Age of Steam

(Franklin, Virginia)

The conjunction of the Portsmouth &

Roanoke Railroad and the Blackwater River

in 1835 made this site, then a swampy

wilderness, a natural link between the

towns of the Chowan and Albemarle Sound

and points to the northeast. The railroad,

later known as the ...

Two Steps From The Blues

Mississippi Blues Trail arker

"Two Steps From the Blues" might refer to Choctaw County's location, a bit off the path from the well-known blues highways and byways of Mississippi, but it is also the title of a classic blues song written ...

Birthplace of Meriwether Lewis

Half a mile north was born, 1774, Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, sent by Jefferson to explore the far west, 1804–1806. The expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River, November 15, 1805.

Marker is at the intersection ...