Site of Old Cathedral Cemetery

In May 1852, this parcel of land was purchased by Bishop (now Saint) John N. Neumann of Philadelphia. From the early 1850s through the late 1870s, this was the primary cemetery for Wilmington’s Catholics. Those buried here represented all walks ...

Brentmoor: The Spilman-Mosby House

This classic Italian Villa-style house was completed in 1861 for Fauquier County Judge Edward M. Spilman. James Keith, who later served as president of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1895-1916), acquired it in 1869. John Singleton Mosby purchased the ...

The Neighborhood / Mysterious Departures

The Neighborhood

You can see Montezuma Castle and Castle A from here. If you look closely at the Cliffside, you might spot other ledges and caves used by the Sinagua.

The Sinagua people who made their homes here may have been a ...

The Silas Bingham House

Circa 1805

Silas Bingham arrived in Athens in 1797. His home, originally built on South College Street, is the oldest house in Athens and one of the few remaining examples of a two-story log building in the area.

Since the commissioners held ...

The V.A. Medical Center Chapel

This unique chapel was built in 1893. Architect Louis Curtis[s] of Kansas City designed the structure after an old gothic chapel he had seen in England.

It has served veterans of all wars from the Mexican War (1848) on. The beautiful ...

Gristmill Stone Recovered from the Little Embarras River

Gristmill Stone Recovered from the

Little Embarras River South of Oakland

about 1936. Donated to the City of Oakland

by the Curtis Family in memory of Walter A. and

Georgia (Swinford) Curtis.

Mill was in use about 1850.

Marker is on North Walnut Street north ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Memorial Reverse:

“Now it doesn't matter.

(go ahead! go ahead! Sounding from the audience.)

It really doesn't matter what happens now.

I don't know what will happen now.

We've got some difficult days ahead, (yeah! oh yes!)

But it really ...

Home of Dr. Hiram Rutherford

This was the home of Dr. Hiram Rutherford, who was involved in 1847 in a case in which Abraham Lincoln represented a slaveholder. Rutherford and Gideon Ashmore harbored a family of slaves who had sought their help. The slaves ...

The Last Confederate Incursion North of the Potomac River

On July 29, 1864, elements of Cole's Maryland Cavalry (Union) battled Brigadier General John C. Vaughn's cavalry brigade of Early's command for three hours in the streets of Hagerstown. By late afternoon, the Marylanders retreated north to Greencastle. That evening, ...

The Great Mound

The outer embankment of this earthwork was constructed about 160 B.C. by the Adena people. Later, the Hopewell people added a small mound containing four human skeletons, cremations, bone awls, pottery shards, projectile points and a platform pipe that were ...