Lord Cornwallis

(Front text)

Major General Charles Cornwallis established a brigade headquarters not far from this site on or around June 19, 1776. His brigade was part of a British army under the command of Sir Henry Clinton, which had occupied this ...

Fort Anne First Baptist Church

Site of the

First Baptist Church

of Fort Anne Village. Erected

1874, destroyed by fire 1955.

This fragment of the bell

which rang also as the town

clock bears date of purchase.

Marker is on George Street (U.S. 4), on ...

Area riverbeds

Area riverbeds are rich with mussels whose shells, when polished, have a luster suitable for processing into "pearl" buttons. In the late 19th century, mussels were harvested by brailing from the river bottoms; they were then cooked in vats for ...

Woodbury World War II Memorial

[Left Tablet]

In honor of the men and women of Woodbury who rendered service World War II 1941-1945

Abbott, H. Ellsworth • Cole, Francis P. • Giggey, Kempton L. • Lundin, Frank G. • Atwood, Gilbert • Cole, Ralph E. • Gillis, ...

Confederate Hospitals

Thousands of Confederate soldiers were patients at Foard Hospital on this site between August and December 1864. Following a disastrous fire and explosion on August 31, the patients were evacuated to the homes of townspeople and to the country; later ...

Kilpatrick at Cork

On Nov. 17, 1864, Kilpatrick’s cavalry division [US], which was covering the right flank of Gen. Sherman’s army on its March to the Sea, moved from Bear Creek Station (Hampton), 30 mi. NW, down the north bank of Towaliga River ...

Maury

Pathfinder of the Seas

Marker is at the intersection of Monument Avenue and N Belmont Avenue, in the median on Monument Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Connorton House

The Connorton House was the home of the town Sergeant, Bud Connorton.

On Sunday April 11, 1920, Sergeant Connorton shot and wounded 17 year old Roland Parks. He was trying to enforce a town ordinance that forbade "loafing on store porches ...

Paducah's Riverfront

Paducah's Riverfront was a critical break-in-bulk point on the nation's inland waterways system. Cargo from deeper draft vessels, as well as passengers and mail, would be loaded and unloaded on to packet boats that ran regular routes on the Tennessee, ...

The Peter Dise House

The Peter Dise House is one of the oldest on the island and was moved from the "Uppards," the now unoccupied marsh north of the harbor.

There were originally four fresh water wells on the island, two on Maine Ridge, one ...