Jornada del Muerto

On the Camino Real

This stretch of the Camino Real leaves the Río Grande and cuts across 90 miles of desert with little water or shelter. Despite its difficulty, the dreaded “Journey of the Deadman” was heavily used by Spanish, Mexican, ...

Walnut Street Historic District

Walnut Street began as a residential area in the national economic boom of the 1880s and 1890s and continued its development through the 1920s. Industries and businesses grew in Florence, the population of the city increased, and business and professional ...

Cherry Street Historic District

(early 20th Century)

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, this district contains 52 structures, most of which were built after 1900. Cherry Street was laid out in 1818 near the east boundary of Florence. Pulitzer Prize winner ...

Rio Grandé Bridge at Radium Springs

This structure – one of the best surviving examples of timber and beam bridge construction in the state – was erected in 1933. The superstructure consists of 19 spans, each 25 feet in length. The roadway is 475 feet long. ...

General Thaddeus Kosciuszko

General Thaddeus Kosciuszko

Revolutionary War Hero

Dedicated By Polish American Congress

South Jersey Division October 14, 1984

Marker is on N. Park Dr. ¼ mile from U.S. 30/130, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Selden Cemetery

Fort Selden was established nearby in 1865 to help protect the settlements of the Mesilla Valley and travelers along the Jornada del Muerto from Apache raids. The post cemetery was located in this field until the fort was abandoned in ...

America's Oldest Agriculture College

A mile north of here, on Oatlands Road, stands the stone and stucco building, erected in 1854 as Loudoun and Mechanical Institute. Its three founders were prominent County agrarian scientists. Unfortunately, America's first agricultural college, Loudoun A&M, failed to thrive ...

Soldier's Rest

-1862-

This area is the military cemetery for Confederate Soldiers. After an 1862 skirmish in the streets of Florence, it was used to bury casualties until the end of the Civil War. Many unknown Confederates and a few unknown Union soldiers ...

Deep Cut

Porter's Attack

Before the attack, soldiers massed in the woods behind the present day road - 10,000 men under Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter. This would be the major Union attack of Second Manassas. At 3 p.m., a lieutenant in Berdan's ...

Bethel Methodist Church

Bethel

Methodist Church

lot donated by

Thomas Bennett

A.D. 1795

Church dedicated 1798

Moved across street

for use of colored

people and present

church dedicated

Aug. 7, 1853

Parsonage once

occupied by

Bishop Francis Asbury

1st M. Church in city