Potter's Covered Bridge

[Obverse]:

First bridge spanning White River at Potter's Ford was commissioned 1860 and named after the landowner, William Potter. In 1870, Hamilton County Commissioners voted for construction of this "Howe Truss" bridge. It was finished 1871 and repaired 1937, 1959, 1961. ...

Dayton

Dark Days in the Burnt District

In the fall of 1864, attacks by Confederate raiders and bushwhackers angered Federal officers in the Shenandoah Valley. On September 22, Union soldiers captured a hapless man named Davy Getz near Woodstock who was wearing ...

Beclabito Dome

Colorful red rocks of Entrada Sandstone are domed up by deep seated igneous intrusions to be exposed by erosion. The same igneous activity created the Carrizo Mountains to the west. Uranium deposits in the Morrison Formation just above the Entrada ...

Bridgewater

Historic North River Crossing

After his victory at the Battle of McDowell on May 8, 1862, Gen. Stonewall Jackson made plans to attack another Federal force in the Shenandoah Valley. Earlier he had ordered Col. John D. Imboden to burn ...

U.S. Post Office Building

Constructed in 1915, this building served as the post office on the Cotton Highway until 1936. County Judge S.L. Gladish made sure that the Post Office contained European tiles like those used in the then-new courthouse. The building later housed ...

Bridgewater

Bridgewater During the War

The town of Bridgewater was a center of Confederate logistical activity during the Civil War. It also sent one company of infantry, the Bridgewater Grays, to the 10th Virginia Infantry Regiment, which fought in most of ...

Richmond Evacuation Fire

After midnight on 3 April 1865, Confederate

soldiers set fire to several tobacco warehouses

nearby on orders from Lt. Gen. Richard S.

Ewell, as the army evacuated Richmond and

marched west. Two distinct fires spread

rapidly throughout the commercial and industrial sections of the capital. ...

St. Andrew Skirmish

Near this site on March 20, 1863, Confederate soldiers commanded by Captain Walter J. Robinson repelled a landing by Union sailors led by Acting Master James Folger of the blockading vessel U.S.S. Roebuck. The 11-man scouting party of Union sailors ...

Coston Building

Built in 1915, the ground floor of this building once housed a barber shop and, later a hardware store. J.T. Coston, a Vanderbilt-educated attorney representing R.E.L. Wilson's farming interests, maintained his offices upstairs and was instrumental in establishing drainage districts ...

Memorial to Three Milford Men

1639 1939

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This Bridge Dedicated

On the 300th Anniversary

Of the Settlement Of

The Town of Milford

A Memorial to Three

Milford Men Who Were

Governors of the Colony

and

State Of Connecticut

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Jonathan Law

Born 1672 ...