McPherson's Last Ride

July 22, 1864. When Gen. McPherson heard the firing to the S.E. while at lunchen (Whiteford Ave. at R.R.), he mounted his horse & sending away most of his staff on various missions, galloped south to this hill.

Here he observed ...

Statehouse Foundations

The Virginia General Assembly is the oldest representative legislature in the Western Hemisphere. Meeting for the first time in July 1619, it gathered in the “most convenient place we could finde to sitt in … the Quire of the churche.” ...

These Foundations

1607

These foundations were

discovered & identified in 1903

by Samuel H. Yonge,

Designer of the sea-wall & author of

“The Site of “Olde Jamestowne,” 1607-1698.”

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Placed by the Association

for the Preservation of

Virginia Antiquities,

1907.

Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when ...

Terry's Mill Pond

The flat area S. was the bed of Terry's mill pond - the impounded waters of Sugar Cr. Tom Terry (1823-1861) operated the grist mill that stood 800 yds. downstream. It was burned by Federal troops July 29, 1864 & ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer's Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

Civil War Action Around Latimer’s Farm

Nineteenth-century farmer Ruben Latimer lived a mile southwest of this spot. He, his wife Sarah, their children and eleven slaves worked a modest self-sufficient farm where they raised livestock and grew cotton, corn and other food crops. In June 1864 ...

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing ...

County Named, 1821

For Capt. Paschal Hickman who was massacred by Indians after River Raisin battle, Jan., 1813, one of nine Ky. officers killed in that action for whom counties named. Resided Franklin County, extensive landowner. Originally, Hickman comprised the Jackson Purchase in ...

11th Corps Headquarters

Army of the Potomac

11th. Corps Headquarters

Major General

Oliver O. Howard

July 1, 2, 3, 4, 1863

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Headwaters Park

Architect Eric R. Kuhne was commissioned to design a flood control plan that would provide for a park and premier festival center. It could also serve as a model for flood control in other sections of the country. The Headwaters ...