Old Federal Road

This highway follows two miles of the Old Federal Road established by the Treaty of 1805 between the United States and the Cherokee Nation. The Road began at the Tellico Blockhouse on the Little Tennessee River and extended to Vann’s ...

John Tyler Morgan

300 yards east is the house in which John Tyler Morgan (1824–1907) was born. A brigadier general in the Confederate Army, he later served for 30 years as United States Senator from Alabama. He distinguished himself by promoting legislation in ...

Petty-Manker Hall

1913 - 2000

Petty-Manker Hall was built in 1913 as a dormitory for men. It was named in honor of the Reverend J.S. Petty and the Reverend J.J. Manker, class of 1873. The four-story brick building was erected at a cost ...

The Mount Vernon Dredge

In its first five years, Alder Gulch produced between 30 and 60 million in gold. By 1874 about 35,000 people lived in the gulch. Times ran out but the gold never did. You can still find it here in the ...

Gallows Barn

Built in the 1890’s for the White Sulfur Springs Sheriff’s Department. In the year 1917 this barn had a legal gallows installed for the execution of three men. These men robbed a train south of White Sulfur Springs and murdered ...

Site of the Trial and Hanging of George Ives

Dec. 21, 1863

Most extraordinary trial in history.

Marker is on Montana Route 287.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Madison County Pioneers

The gold rush to Alder Creek in 1863 spurred settlement of the Madison Valley, and among the first families to settle here were the Jeffers, the Switzers (whose home is preserved here in Nevada City) and the Careys. Irish-born Nick ...

Forbes Road

1758

Shawnee Cabins Encampment

At this point

the Forbes Road

leads southwestward

to

the eastern slope

of

the Allegheny Mountains

8 1/3 miles from Fort Bedford

Marker is on Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) 0.2 miles west of Market Street (Pennsylvania ...

Oak Grove Male Academy

Chartered Dec. 16, 1837, this was the first such institution in the Ocoee Purchase; here was its home during its entire existence. An early teacher (1843) was Henry von Aldehoff, a native of Prussia and graduate of Bonn University. This ...

Early Gold Mining

Placer gold was discovered along Coker Creek in 1831. For a time there was feverish digging; $80,000 of Coker Creek gold was mined between 1831 and 1854. Since then there has been sporadic mining here.

Marker is at the intersection of ...