Village of Great Bridge

A Vital Link

The village of Great Bridge was located at a strategic crossing of the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. This canal, along with the Dismal Swamp Canal, was recognized as being a strategically important corridor by both the Union and ...

The Barren River

The Barren River is the Green River's largest tributary and is named for the barrens, large treeless grasslands found along its course. The first small steamboat reached Bowling Green in 1828. A series of locks and dams completed in 1838 ...

Seven Patriot Heroes

Homes and Last Resting Places

Nearby were the homes of three Afro-Virginians who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. Sgt. March Corprew, Co. I, 2nd USCT Cavalry, and his brother Pvt. Daniel Corprew, Co. D, ...

Watering Trough & Fountain

Watering Trough & Fountain

Circa Early 1900s

Memorial by Catlin Family Descendants

The carved stone drinking fountain and horse watering trough provided gravity-fed spring water during the early twentieth century, whenhorses and oxen pulled the heavy loads, people walked dusty ...

West Liberty

First organized town in the Ohio Valley. Formed in 1787. First court of Ohio County met at Black's Cabin here in 1777. Near by is grave of Captain Samuel, hero of the Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers.

Marker is on Chatham Street ...

U.S. Government Bakery

“After breakfast I mounted and rode...to look at the Bake House just completed. It will turn out 100,000 rations in 24 hours. Every thing is on a grand scale and of the most convenient & Economical character. They make most ...

The Cuffeytown Thirteen

Patriot Heroes

Thirteen African American veterans of the Civil War are interred nearby at the Cuffeytown Historic Cemetery. They served in the 5th, 10th, and 36th United States Colored Troops infantry regiments organized in 1863 and 1864, after the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Mining on Horseshoe Mesa

In 1890 prospector Pete Berry staked the Last Chance copper claim 3,000 feet below you on Horseshoe Mesa. The Last Chance Mine began a 17-year flurry of activity here at Grandview Point.

For a while the Last Chance Mine thrived. The ...

W. W. II War Memorial - Livingston County Illinois

[ Etched in Stone:]

In memory of those men and women of Livingston County who served in

World War II

1941 - 1945

[ Bronze Marker:]

1941 – 1945

To the eternal memory of the men

of Livingston County

Global War

Freedoms - Liberty - American Way

[ Row One:]

Wilmer ...

City Point’s Rails And Waterways

Tools of War for General Grant

City Point...tells more about how war is conducted than many battlefields. It demonstrates how Union forces used rivers and railroads to deliver the tools of war directly to the troops in the field. – Robert ...