Randolph County Jail

Confining the "Bogus State Sheriff"

(Preface):On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that ...

Lee-Jackson House

Here lived

Margaret Junkin Preston

1848 – 1857

Poetess of the Confederacy

Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson

1853 – 1857

Robert E. Lee

1865 – 1869

Placed by

The Rockbridge Historical Society

1957

Marker is on W Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.

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John Darby, Lot 14, 1786

John Wolfe, 1795

Jacob Shaffer, 1815

Thomas Reynolds

Robert McCoy

D.M.B. Shannon, 1856

Dr. John Kuhn, 1905

Dr. William Grove, 1950

James W. & Carol W. Smith, 1972

Marker is at the intersection of N. Main Street and E Seminary Street on N. Main Street.

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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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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 ...

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 ...

Mill Island

Confederate Hospital

The mansion in front of you is Mill Island, constructed about 1840 in the Greek Revival style for Felix Seymour and his wife, Sidney McNeill Seymour. During the Civil War, Mill Island served as a Confederate hospital, especially for ...

Cape Girardeau and the Railroad

After the golden age of the steamboat, port cities like Cape Girardeau suffered as railroads provided alternate means of transportation.

Responding to the post-Civil War railroad boom, a syndicated of local business leaders formed the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad ...