Bridging the Past with the Present

Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Park and Visitor Center

1600s: Woodlands, Marshes and the Great Bridge

The rich forests and fields south of the Elizabeth River and in northeastern North Carolina gave the early settlers in the late 1600s bountiful yields of ...

1870s Cowboy-Indian Fight

(Battleground 1 mi. N of Marker)

Near here in 1874 or 1875, 18 Indians attacked W. B. Brown and two comrades, spooking one horse and capturing bedrolls and grub, but sparing the men, who thankfully escaped. In the 1870s, when ...

Elvis Presley and the Blues

Marker Front:

Elvis Presley revolutionized popular music by blending the blues he first heard as a youth in Tupelo with country, pop, and gospel.

Many of the first songs Elvis recorded for the Sun label in Memphis were covers of earlier blues ...

Battles and Engagements of the Delaware Regiment

Battles around New York City and Environs, 1776-1779

1. Long Island, August 27, 1776

2. Throg's Neck, October 12-18, 1776

3. Mamaroneck Raid, October 22, 1776

4. White Plains, October 28, 1776

5. Retreat across New Jersey, November-December 1776

6. Trenton, December 26, 1776

7. Staten ...

Site of the Duck Creek Society of Friends

The first religious organization to hold services in Duck Creek Hundred - 1705. Property transferred to Duck Creek Historical Society - 1962. Michael Desmond, Jr's Eagle Scout Restoration Project - 2002.

Marker is on Duck Creek Parkway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

1Lt. Mark Peterson

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

Marker is at the intersection of 6th Street NW and Paige Avenue, on the right when traveling north on 6th Street NW. ...

The Cauffiel House and Estate

A Country Home on the River

Once the summer home of a prosperous Wilmington businessman and his family, the Cauffiel House has changed little since it was built in the late 1920s. The colonial style brick house still looks down to ...

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

Capt. Alan Trent

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

Marker is at the intersection of 6th Street NW and Paige Avenue, on the right when traveling north on 6th Street NW. ...

Hampton Colored School

Constructed for black students,this

elementary school was built shortly

after Hampton County School District

purchased the land in the late 1920s.

Two of the school's alumni of the 1930's

and 1940s, brothers James F. and

Julius C. Fields achieved national

stature as actors, dancers, and

choreographers ...

The Burning of Washington, D.C.

Oxon Hill Farm - Oxon Cove Park

“I cannot express to you the distress it has occasioned at the Battle of Bladensburg. We heard every fire. …Our house was shook repeatedly by the firing upon forts and bridges, and illuminated by ...