Miss Marilyn Bell

This cairn commemorates the feat of Miss Marilyn Bell who landed in this bay 23rd August 1956 to become the first woman and first Canadian to swim Juan de Fuca Strait from Port Angeles, U.S.A. to Victoria, Canada

Marker can be ...

Birthplace of Earle B. Combs

Centerfielder for Yankees, 1924-35, and coach, 1936-43, Combs helped New York win 11 pennants and 9 World Series. Lifetime batting average .325. This Pebworth native (1899-1976) was elected to the Ky. Athletic Hall of Fame in 1963 and to the ...

Haywood County World War II Monument

This Monument is Dedicated to the Men and Women of Haywood county who served during World War II and to those who gave their lives in defense of our country.

A nearby stone marker lists local World War II

Congressional Medal of ...

Captain James Morehead

1778-81. 1800

To

Captain James Morehead

of the 10th Regiment,

N.C. Continental Line.

Battle of Stong

June 20, 1778

• • • • • •

Elizabethton July 1781

Born 1750 Died 1815

Marker is on New Garden Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Civil War Actions

Retreating to Ohio from Cumberland Gap, part of USA Brig. Gen. Geo. W. Morgan’s command passed by here obtaining supplies Sept. 21, 1862.

Force of 40 local citizens drove off 75 Southern partisans guerrillas April 14, 1864.

Col. C. H. Hanson ...

Emily Carr

1871-1945

[English]

Artist and author Emily Carr was born here and lived most of her life in this neighbourhood of Victoria where she died. Her compelling canvases of British Columbia landscape offer a unique vision of the forest an shore, while her ...

Site of First Houston Homestead

The first hickory log cabin built by John C. Houston, original settler of Eau Gallie, was erected in this area. Houston came here in 1859 with his older sons and 10 slaves. He had served in the U.S. Army during ...

A Masterful Retreat

Gen. George W. Morgan’s 9000 USA force occupied Cumberland Gap June 18 to Sept. 17, 1862. Cut off from supplies, Morgan began a 200-mile retreat. From Manchester they moved in two columns, both seeking supplies, through here on to Proctor. ...

Good Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery

[Front]:

This cemetery, dating from the early 19th century, is at the third site of Good Hope Presbyterian Church, founded in 1789. A frame sanctuary was built here in 1856 during the tenure of Rev. David Humphreys (d. 1869), who preached ...

Fairview

On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of

Fairview

Located south of Madison between Highway 441 South, Pierce Dairy Road and Seven Islands Road, the Fairview community grew up between the localities ...