Fort Donnally/Border Heroes

Fort Donnally

Built by Andrew Donnally a few miles north about 1771. Attack on this fort by 200 Indians in 1778 was second most important frontier engagement in the State. The fort was relieved by force under Colonel John Stuart.

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Abraham Vandal

Plaque One

Abraham Vandal

1758-1848

* Born in Dutchess, NY

* Soldier in the American Revolutionary War 1776-1781

* Married Mary Dillon 1780

* Father of Eight Children

* Early Fayetteville Settler

* In 1812 Abraham purchased 200 acres, including the present site of Fayetteville

Plaque Two

New York ...

Fayetteville

In the attack on Federal forces here, 1863. Milton W. Humphreys, the educator and soldier, gunner of Bryan's Battery, 13th Virginia Light Artillery, C.S.A., first used “indirect firing,” now in universal military use.

Marker is on North Court Street (West Virginia ...

Old Cahill School

[east side]

The Cahill Settlement was one of the early communities in the western half of Richfield Township. It was established in the 1850s by Irish immigrants fleeing famine in their native Ireland.

During the years of 1846, 1847 and 1848, the ...

Wheeler Town Clock

Jerome Wheeler donated this clock in 1889 for the opening of the Manitou Mineral Water Bottling Company. The clock, cast by the J. L. Mott Iron Works of Trenton, New Jersey, was also a fountain. Water flowed from stylized dolphin ...

Little Falls Road

Little Falls Road was originally a trail from the Indian villages at the head of Four Mile Run to the Potomac River fisheries just below the Little Falls. Later it was developed as a wagon road from the settlement at ...

Cherrydale Masonic Hall

This two-story brick building was built in 1936 as the Cherrydale Masonic Hall. Designed with retail space on the first floor, the building serves as the home of the Cherrydale Masonic Lodge #42. This lodge is the second oldest Masonic ...

Cherrydale Volunteer Firehouse

The Cherrydale Volunteer Fire Department was the first fire company in Arlington County. Formed in 1898 and officially established in 1904, it originally consisted of 10 leather buckets, a ladder, and spirited volunteers. A community fundraising effort, including a contribution ...

Village Of Providence

(Unincorporated)

Union County

Providence is believed to be the second oldest Florida settlement next to St. Augustine. The Lonnie Summers Family found this statement written on the wall of the Old Odem House they purchased in 1936: "St. Augustine was ...

Leeds CCC Camp

Utah Historic Site

Built in 1933, the Leeds Civilian Conservation Corps Camp is significant as perhaps the best remaining example of a CCC camp in Utah. These camps were typically built of relatively temporary frame construction, and the surviving buildings and ...