The Underground Railroad in West Milton

Side A:

In the year 1798, several prospectors traveled north from their North Carolina homes in search of new lands for themselves and their friends. Four of these known Quaker prospectors were John Mast, Jr., Martin Davenport and David Hoover ...

Overfield Tavern

Benjamin Overfield (1774-1831), son of a Revolutionary War soldier, opened his tavern in this log house on September 13, 1808. Never moved, it is the oldest surviving building in Troy. The tavern provided food, lodging and space for business and ...

Beaverdam & Vicinity World War II Memorial

Liberty

Dedicated to those from Beaverdam

& vicinity who served their country in the

war for the liberty of the world

1941 - 1945

To honor all men and women

of this community who nobly served

their country in World ...

Bellfield Plantation

The Bellfield house site and graveyard are located some 300 yards to the east. This was the home of two early Virginia governors, Captain John West in 1632 and Edward Digges who bought the property from West in 1650. Here ...

Battle of Great Bridge

In this vicinity, in 1775, was the southern end of a causeway, with bridges, by which the swamp and stream were crossed. Here William Woodford's Virginia riflemen defended the passage. When Lord Dunmore's British regulars attempted to cross the swamp ...

Hodgson Brothers Store and Boatways

Alexander R. Hodgson, H.U. Hodgson and John Edwin Hodgson, brothers, together with their families,came to Eau Gallie about 1883. they founded the Hodgson Brothers mercantile business at this

location in the 1890s. they later added a marine

ways and machine ...

Run of '89 North Boundary

At the opening of "Old Oklahoma", April 22, 1889, this was the north line for the Run starting at 12 o'clock noon. Prairies and hills in the 2,000,000 acre tract, south, were peopled by tens of thousands, homes were planted ...

Figures and Medallions of the Library Wing of Parliament Buildin

[Medallions, top row]

Milton – Sophocles – Shakespeare – Socrates – Dante – Homer

[Statues, anti-clockwise from the top left]

Colonel R.C. Moody

1813-1887

Commander of Royal Engineers in 1858, erected New Westminster as capital of B.C., planned the Cariboo Road.

David Thompson

1770 – 1857

Greatest ...

Washington at the Wayside Inn

Washington

Passed This Place

On His Way to

Cambridge

To Take Command

of the

Patriot Army

June 1775 July

Marker is on Wayside Inn Road ¼ mile west of Boston Post Road (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hicksford Raid Monument

On this site December 9, 1864 Union General Gouvereur K. Warren with 28,000 troops at his command clashed with troops of Confederate Generals Wade Hampton and Wm. H. F. Lee, in a failed attempt to destroy the railroad bridge and ...