The Green Bay Trail

One branch of the Green Bay Trail traversed this region. Originally an Indian trail, after 1816 the route connected Fort Dearborn at Chicago with Fort Howard at Green Bay. Couriers faced hunger, cold and Indians to carry dispatches on a ...

Ferry Hill

Farm, Ferry and Freedom

The brick home in front of you (Picture included) once stood at the heart of a Western Maryland plantation called "Ferry Hill." Built between 1812 and 1820, the plantation consisted of nearly 700 acres of land, a ...

Shavers Fork

Mountaintop Watershed

Near this point the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike crossed the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River, going over Cheat Mountain at a high point of almost 4000 feet at White Top. The Shavers Fork forms a high elevation watershed on top ...

Warsaw's First House

Near this site Elizur Webster erected the first dwelling in Warsaw in the Summer of 1803

Marker is on South Main Street (New York Route 19) just south of Livingston Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cabin Remains

This area is where troops were quartered. Most cabins within the earthworks were lumber structures with bark roofs. These measured roughly 40 feet by 20 feet and were extremely crowed at times. The circular mounds usually represent collapsed chimneys. Under ...

Richmond-Andrus Mill Site

This site marks The Richmond Mill, constructed in 1822 as a sawmill. The Andrus family first became involved with the mill in 1872.

The 1915 History of Perry reports that the sawmill was operational. With 93 years in business, it ...

Andrus Mill Pond

This view was from a point South of the Andrus planing mill looking West, and shows the "Andrus Pond" and culvert under Main Street.

The Andrus Mill pond was filled in. In 1999, it is the Perry Village's main parking ...

Astride the Road from Nowhere

"Our tents were pitched on a rocky point with a fine forest on every side and a magnificent view of the Alleghenies on front of us, a beautiful romantic, though desolate spot." - William Houghton, 14th Indiana Infantry, July 16, ...

In Memory of a Soldier

In memory of a soldier

of the War of 1812

buried here 1814

My brave lad he sleeps

In his faded coat of blue

In his lonely grave unknown

Lies the heart that beat so true

Marker is on Avon-Caledonia ...

Guarding the Turnpike

Federal forces built Cheat Summit Fort to control the strategic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, the road below you. It ran from Virginia to Parkersburg, (West) Virginia. When finished, the turnpike opened the first continuous route between Richmond and the Ohio River. The ...