Hayes Station

Completed in 1860 by innkeeper David Hayes in anticipation of the soon to be completed Sonora-Mono Toll Road.

By 1865 with the toll road completed, wagons, stages, and pack trains used the station as a mail, relay, and rest stop for ...

Johnson Hall State Historic Site

Revolution in the Mohawk Valley

Sir William Johnson built Johnson Hall in 1763 as the center of a grand estate. He was made a British baronet for his role in the French & Indian Wars, a title his son, John, ...

Virginia Mourning Her Dead

Company A

Henry A. Wise, Jr., Captain Commanding

C. H. Minge, Cadet Captain

W. C. Hardy, Lieutenant • W. Morson, Lieutenant • E. M. Ross, Sergeant • W. B. Shaw, Sergeant • W. T. Duncan, Sergeant • J. Douglass, Sergeant • H. Wood, ...

Landscaping Johnson Hall

New York State purchased Johnson Hall in 1906. At that time, after almost 150 years of changing ownership, only 20 acres remained intact of the original 700+ acre property.

The Johnstown Historical Society, trustee of Johnson Hall in the early ...

Harry S. Truman Grave

Born May 8, 1884

Lamar, Missouri

Died December 26, 1972

Married June 28, 1919

Daughter

Born February 17, 1924

Judge

Eastern District

Jackson County

Jan. 1, 1923 - Jan 1, 1925

Presiding Judge

Jackson County

Jan. 1, 1927 - Jan. ...

Freedman's Institute

A three-story brick building was erected 1872-74 on this site to train blacks as teachers. Institute was begun in 1867, in a log house ½ mile north, and later moved into a new building, financed mainly by friends. By 1879, ...

William Bennett Scott, Sr.

ca. 1821 - 1885

William B. Scott, Sr., a free Black, migrated to East Tennessee in 1847 after increased racial tension in North Carolina. He made harnesses and saddles in Blount County’s Quaker community of Friendsville until the Civil War. In ...

John Craig's Fort

Site of the original settlement of Maryville. Here Captain John Craig in 1785 erected a fort on Pistol Creek to protect settlers from Indian raids. In 1793 as many as 280 men, women, and children lived within its walls for ...

Joseph T. Noland House

In 1910, while visiting his aunt "Ella" Noland, Harry Truman seized the opportunity to return a cake plate to the Wallaces, beginning his courtship with Bess.

Marker is on N. Delaware Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Montvale Springs

7 ½ mi. S, this resort was termed the Saratoga of the South in stagecoach days. First advertized in 1832; Daniel Foute, built a log hotel there in 1837. In 1853, Asa Watson, of Mississippi, built the Seven Gable Hotel. ...