Here the British Turned

Here the British turned into Galloping Hill Road from Elizabethtown to Connecticut Farms and Springfield at the time of the battles June 7 and 23, 1780.

Washington afterwards said of the New Jersey militia “They flew to arms universally, and acted ...

Littlefield Home

George W. Littlefield (1842-1920) came to Texas with his family in 1850. He served in the Civil War with Terry’s Texas Rangers, attaining the rank of Major. Following the war he became a cattleman and acquired ranches in New Mexico ...

The Wilderness Road Crossing of the Clinch River

In 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen, following a Native American trade route, blazed a trail from the Anderson Blockhouse to a site on the Kentucky River. This trail, later to become the Wilderness Road, traversed 200 miles ...

Veedersburg - VanBuren Township War Memorial

1919 - 1991

American Legion

Veedersburg Post 288

In Memory of those from

Veedersburg & Vanburen Twp.

who served, and those who

gave their lives in the

service of their Country.

[Left Side]:

World War I

Lozan R. Bantz • Robert Edwards • Charles Forrest • Alva Gressmire • Frank ...

St. John's Masonic Lodge

1925

This building was the St. John's Masonic Lodge #7. The cornerstone, containing the membership rolls of the Masonic bodies in DeLand, was laid Sept. 14, 1925. Designed by local architects, Carpenter & Bent, the lower floor originally accommodated a lobby, ...

Littlefield Building

George Washington Littlefield (1842-1920) came to Texas from Mississippi in 1850. After serving in Terry’s Texas Rangers in the Civil War, he made his fortune ranching and driving cattle. He moved to Austin in 1883 and, in 1890, established the ...

Carlisle Old Graveyard Revolutionary War Soldiers

Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in grateful appreciation of the services of these soldiers of the Revolutionary War who lie buried here.

Located and verified by The Cumberland County County Chapter of the D.A.R.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lick Skillet Road

A winding dirt road of the 1860’s which passed Ezra Ch. (S.E. cor. Mozley Park) & continued S.W. to Gordon Terrace, where it joined Gordon R. & ran westward to a cross-roads settlement called Lick Skillet, now known as Adamsville. ...

Brigadier General William Thompson

1736 - 1781

The First Colonel of the U.S. Army

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Mount Pleasant

Two miles east of here, on a bluff fronting Savannah River, is the site of Mt. Pleasant, a former Uchee Indian town and English trading post. Even before the foundation of Georgia, the spot was a key point on an ...