The Old National Pike

The National Pike was also called the National Road (used national funds) or the Cumberland Road (began in Cumberland). Behind you and to the right along the base of the hill, were the storehouses of The Ohio Company. The earliest ...

Ardenwood Historic Farm / George Washington Patterson Ranch

This Property

The

George Washington

Patterson Ranch

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

November 29, 1985

Marker can be reached from Ardenwood Boulevard near California Highway 84.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Breakout

February 15, 1862

"Fill your cartridge boxes, quick, and get into line; the enemy is trying to escape and he must not be permitted to do so."

Col. J.D. Webster, USA

The advantage lay with the Confederates. They could press the attack and ...

Wharton's Brigade

Pillow's Division

C.S.A.

Brigadier General

Gideon J. Pillow's Division

Colonel Gabriel C. Wharton's Brigade51st Virginia, Lieut. Colonel James W. Massie

56th Virginia, Captain George W. Davis

Arrived at Fort Donelson on February 7 and 8, 1862. First assigned to General Buckner's Division, the brigade, on February ...

Our Local Indian Heritage

The land west of the Allegheny Mountains was exclusively the Indians until the mid 1700's. The local Indians were part of the Shawanese tribe and a sub-division of the Algonquin Nation-one of the most warlike. With the coming of the ...

Lieut. Ebenezer Sheldon's Fort

1630 - 1930

Built in 1740 on this site. The first Proprietor's Meeting in Fall Town was held here in 1741. The Lieutenant's son Eliakim was shot by Indians in 1747 while working west of the fort walls.

Marker is on Northfield ...

Mitchell Building

The first house on this corner was Solomon Juneau's residence, built in -1835. The Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Co. and its successor, the Marine National Bank occupied this site from -1846-to-1930. The present building was erected in -1876 ...

Trading Path

Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.

Marker is at the intersection of East Center Street and N. 7th Street, on the right when traveling east on East ...

Attack at Dawn

Following the tradition of positioning the best troops at the commander’s right hand, Gen. Horatio Gates placed one brigade of Continentals on his right, and held the second in reserve, leaving inexperienced militia on his left. Since Cornwallis also put ...

British Landing Prevented

July 17, 1776

Capt. Rezin Beall (later Brig. Gen. in "Flying Camp") was wounded here in repulse of British efforts to cross to mainland from St. George's Island. Fighting continued until July 29, Lord Dunmore, commanding 72 marauding British vessels on ...