Roberts County

Formed from Young and Bexar

Territories

Created, August 21, 1876

Organized, January 10, 1889

Named in honor of

John S. Roberts

A signer of the Texas Declaration

of Independence, and

Oran Milo Roberts

Governor of Texas, 1878-1882

County seat, Miami,

Historic Roadside Park

The picnic area on US 60 in Roberts County is an early roadside park developed by the Texas Highway Department – now Texas Department of Transportation. This 1935 park accommodated motorists attending the state's centennial events in 1936. The park ...

The Galena Road

In the early 1830’s pioneer traffic moving north from Peoria crowded primitive trails and forced a direct route to Galena. In 1833, Levi Warner’s state survey marked the Galena Road. It cut through this schoolyard. Private Abraham Lincoln passed this ...

Buchanan and The James River and Kanawha Canal

Celebrating more than two centuries of history

Buchanan, Virginia is the western terminus of the James River & Kanawha Canal. Considered one of Virginia’s most remarkable engineering feats ever attempted, the Canal’s beginnings stretch back to 1785, when George Washington ...

The Seneca Free Library

The Library was an idea generated by the Seneca Women’s Club embroidery circle in 1908. As they worked, they often discussed books and the need for a town library. After collecting 300 books they persuaded a drug store to give ...

Rockbridge County / Botetourt County

(obverse)

Rockbridge County

Area 616 Square Miles

Formed in 1778 from Augusta and Botetourt, and named for the Natural Bridge. Samuel Houston and Cyrus H. McCormick were born in this county. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried in Lexington. Washington and ...

Liberty School Bell

1875 - 1946

Three miles north of

Seneca, Ks.

Given by

Harry C. M. Burger

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Johnson County War Memorial Honor Rolls

[ Marker Front ]

[ Center Section ]

—?— (The Great Seal) —?—

Dedicated to these Johnson

County men who, in answering

the call of duty, paid the

Price of Freedom

– (Seal) – United States Army

– (Seal) – United States Navy ...

Convention Army The Barracks

In Jan. 1779, during the American Revolution, 4,000 British troops and German mercenaries (commonly known as “Hessians”) captured following the Battle of Saratoga in New York arrived here after marching from Massachusetts. It was called the Convention Army after the ...

Henry Box Brown

Born into slavery about 1815 at The Hermitage Plantation near here, Henry Brown was working in Richmond by 1830. Brown mailed himself to Philadelphia, and freedom, on 23 Mar. 1849 inside a three-foot-long box. Brown became a spokesperson for the ...