Levaggi Opera House

The front building built in 1860. The opera house was built on back in 1892 by John and Michael Levaggi, early pioneers and stone masons from Italy. Bricks used were kilned east of Sutter Creek and hauled to the site ...

Battle of Great Bridge DAR Monument

December 9, 1775

(side 1)

This monument honors

Patriots who assembled

at this site in the Cause of

American Freedom in 1775

American Patriots

at the Battle

Second Virginia Regiment

Commanded by

Colonel William Woodford,

of Caroline County, Virginia

Culpeper Minute Men

Battle of Great Bridge

December 9, 1775

Monument placed by the

Virginia Daughters of ...

Wellsburg

Established in 1791. Brooke Academy, started, 1778, incorporated in 1799. Here lived Joseph Doddridge, the author of "Frontier Notes," and Patrick Gass, member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and author of its "Journal."

Marker is on Commerce Street (West Virginia ...

Three Northampton Landmarks

Three miles west stands the third church of Hungars Parish, begun in 1742 and completed by 1751, one of two colonial churches remaining on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The parish built the glebe house or minister's residence, 5.5 miles west, about ...

Lewis and Clark Visit Spirit Mound

August 25, 1804

On the hot day of August 25, 1804, captains Lewis and Clark and several of their men walked from the river to explore Spirit Mound. They had heard that little people with deadly arrows inhabited the mound. Although ...

Beaufort

Second oldest town in South Carolina,

Authorized by the Lords Proprietors,

December 20, 1710,

Chartered January 17, 1711,

Laid out prior to February 16, 1717,

Incorporated by the state,

December 17, 1808

Marker is on Boundary Street (U.S. 21) near Ribaut Road, on the right when ...

Glebe Church

Built in 1738. In 1775 the Parish minister, Parson Agnew, was driven from the Church for preaching loyalty to the King. The building was repaired in 1854.

Marker is on Nansemond Parkway (Virginia Route 337), on the right when traveling west. ...

The Benge Route

The Trail of Tears

John Benge's Route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, 1838-1839

John Benge led one detachment of approximately 1100 Cherokee with 60 wagons and 600 horses that left from Alabama on ...

Hargrove's Tavern

On 10 May 1779, during the Revolutionary War, a British expeditionary force commanded by Gen. Edward Matthews disembarked in Portsmouth to capture the major Tidewater Virginia towns. About 200 Nansemond County militia under Col. Willis Riddick immediately assembled in Suffolk ...

Mizpah Church

Methodist Church

established by 1832.

Present 1856 house of

worship is all that

remains of pre~ Civil

War Settlement of

Buford's Bridge.

Marker is at the intersection of Burton Ferry Road (U.S. 301) and Mizpah Lane, on the right when traveling south on Burton Ferry ...