Site of Original Oak Swamp Church

(Baptist)

Framing for this church had begun at Peckham Street, when disgruntled Oak Swamp people took away the timbers in the night and raised the church here.

Marker is at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Chestnut Street, on the right when ...

Palmer River Pound

"Old Pot Ash Neighborhood"

This town pound maintained by Col. Frederick Drown for many years. Stray cattle were kept here until retrieved by their owners.

The Wheeler family ran a pot ash business nearby.

Marker is on Brook Street east of School Street, ...

Horton Signal

1777 - 1779

When the British occupied Newport, RI. during the Revolution they often threatened the surrounding towns with raids or "alarums" as they were called. When a raid began a system of beacon fires were lit to warn the militia ...

POW-MIA Memorial

On Behalf of a Grateful Nation and a Proud American Legion

This POW-MIA flag flies to honor those veterans who, in service to this great nation, sacrificed their freedom and their physical and mental well-being as prisoners of war. It also ...

Davie County War Memorial

front center

Dedicated in Honor of All Davie County Veterans and to the Memory of Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice for Our Freedom

front left

Spanish American War (?)

World War I (18)

Vietnam (9)

front left

World War II (53)

Korean War (2)

Beirut (1)

back

Civil War (259 ...

"Battle Cross"

podium beside statue

This arrangement of a fallen soldier's boots, rifle and helmet known as a BATTLE CROSS began in World War I. Since then, when a serviceman or woman is lost on the battlefield, comrades erect a Battle Cross to ...

Second Yadkin County Jail

c. 1892

Second Yadkin County Jail

c. 1892

Has Been Placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United Stated Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Hemlock Avenue and Van Buren Street, on the left when traveling east on ...

Industry Along the Banks

Riverfrontiers

In the 1880s, the heart of Rochester lay on the flat stretch of land along the Ohio River. The main road, Water Street, was a perfect location for businesses for many reasons. Proximity to the rivers and railroads meant heavy ...

Daniel Bullock- Samuel Baker Sawmill site 1750-1850

Plain St. now crosses what was once sawmill pond.

On a cold New Years day in 1830, 14 new converts to the nearby Oak Swamp Baptist Church were baptized by being immersed in the pond through a hole cut in ...

LaSalette Seminary

Attleboro Springs Sanatorium

Keeping faithful watch, this revered image of Mary has stood at the entrance to LaSalette Seminary (formerly Attleboro Springs Sanatorium),welcoming generations of brothers, priests, seminarians, pilgrims and visitors, inviting all still to submit to Christ's gentle sway as ...