Lowden’s Wagon Road

Built in 1858 by W.S. Lowden. This was the first wagon road to Weaverville from Lewiston. From Lowden’s Ranch the roads forked. One went through Lewiston and up over Hoadley Peak on the Lewiston Turnpike, which was a toll road ...

Lee Family Ranch House

This house built in 1917 by family members on land purchased from Mrs. J. Putnam is located adjacent to the 32 acre Lorenz Ranch farmed by the Lee family since 1906. Acquired from the Lee family in 1989 by Trinity ...

Laurinburg

Burning Depot

Preface:

The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the March to the Sea. Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to ...

El Miradero

"A high place overlooking a wide view"

Known as Brand's Castle

Home of L.C. Brand-Pioneer and

Prominent developer in Glendale

Design by Nathaniel Dryden

Historical "City of Glendale California" Landmark

Marker is on West Mountain Street, on the right when ...

Race Track – Airport – Golf Course

Once known as China Graveyard Ridge, by late August, 1871, Alex Love developed a racetrack on this site 550 yards in length. This popular quarter mile track saw the names of horses like “Hayfork Kitty” and “Hollywood” owned by John ...

Assassination of F.M.B. "Marsh" Cook

On July 23, 1890, Marsh Cook of Jasper County was gunned down by six men after warning citizens that the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention would likely limit voting rights and disfranchise black voters. Cook was a white Republican candidate for ...

Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base

U.S. Army Air Force glider base, 1942-45. Trained units active in D-Day assault, June 6, 1944. Field 3 mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Highway (U.S. 74) and Airport Road on Martin Luther King Jr. ...

Fort D.A. Russell

Originally named Camp Marfa, this installation began as a supply post for U.S. Army border patrol stations in 1911. It was a cavalry camp during the years of the Mexican Revolution. Renamed for Civil War general David Allen Russell, it ...

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Our Freedom Began When in 1776

These Courageous Men Signed

The Declaration of Independence

Father of Our County

George Washington

The Voice of Freedom

Patrick Henry

The Pen of Freedom

George Mason

[Signers of the Declaration are listed by State]

With utmost thanks to those who live and die to ...

Archeology, 1974

In 1974, archeologists from Temple University excavated this general area. They found evidence of a partially completed building, building supplies and traces of earlier walls, as well as smaller artifacts, including three cannon balls. The archeologists searched for a ...