A Landscape and Lifestyle Defined by Water

Of English Origin ...

A Landscape and Lifestyle Defined by Water

Dorchester County consists of 688 square miles of which approximately 1/3 is water. The extensive waterways and marshland have played a significant role in the development of the county. Only 20 ...

Old Grist Mill Site

1876

Just west on the river, W.R Milligan built the first grist mill & sawmill in Round Valley, later a brick kiln was added. Subsequent owners included the Udall Bros. & J.P. Rothlisberger who built the barn just ahead.

Marker is on ...

Old Fort Bridger

Pioneer Trading Post

The fort was established about 1842 by Jim Bridger discoverer of Great Salt Lake; notable pioneer, trapper, fur trader, scout and guide. Bridger was born at Richmond, Virginia, March 17, 1804 and died at Westport, Missouri, July 17, ...

Third Brigade

Third Division - Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps Third Division

Third Brigade

Brig. Gen. Frank Wheaton

Col. David J. Nevin

62d. New York 93d. 98th. 102d. 139th. Penna. Infantry

July 2 Arrived about 2 p.m. and late in the day moved to the north ...

Old Stone Church

Now owned by Unitarian-Universalist

congregation. Present church was built in 1837.

Marker is at the intersection of Kingwood Road (County Route 519) and Oak Summit Road on Kingwood Road.

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Walney Outbuildings

Icehouse

Emmeline Machen (at Walney) to Arthur Machen, December 1853

“As to the Ice-house I remind James of it daily and indeed almost every time I see him. … Campbell promised to come today to commence digging it, but has failed to ...

Truman – Randell House

A transformed early Sonoran adobe, this house is the only structure in Florence that has a full second story added to an adobe core. Built by W. C. Truman, the sheriff known for capturing lady stagecoach robber Pearl Heart in ...

Captain Daniel Bray

To commemorate the valour of

Captain Daniel Bray.

Who with a few patriotic citizens braved the enemy and collected enough boats from along the river to make possible the memorable crossing of the ice-laden Delaware of General Washington and his troops on ...

Headquarters

Headquarters

British Officers

During Battle of

Plattsburg, September, 1814

Marker is on Cumberland Ave. just east of Kent Lane, on the left when traveling north.

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Pikes Peak Overlook Landscape Interpretation

Across this impressive gorge of the Mississippi River is the mouth of the Wisconsin River. The steeply notched valleys of both rivers are carved into sedimentary bedrock which underlies the level, plateau-like uplands and forms the abrupt, picturesque bluffs along ...