Lost River

Settled before 1750. Nearby was Riddle’s Fort, frontier outpost. Here Battle of Lost River was fought in 1756 between company of Virginia frontiersmen under Captain Jeremiah Smith and band of 50 French and Indians.

Marker is on West Virginia Route 259 ...

Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Big Springs Presbyterian Ch

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

Lieut. Colonel Samuel Irvine •

Captain William Peebles •

Captain Samuel Felton •

Captain Thomas Buchanan •

Lieut. ...

Citizenry Mourn Lincoln

[Left Section]

When word of President Lincoln’s assassination came, most of Pontiac’s male population had not yet returned from the Civil War. But their wives and children remained, and when word was received that the special train bearing his body ...

Mule Barns

Constructed in 1907

The mule barn and the nearby livery stable were two of the most important building in the original Grand Canyon Village. In the early 1900's, when all travel within the village was by horse-drawn carriage, these huge barns ...

Creating Crossroads of Commerce

Ohio & Erie Canalway

You are near "Hall's Corners," the center of Akron's first business district, named after the general store that once stood at the corner of Market and Howard streets. Across Market Street from where you are standing, was ...

Red Boiling Springs

Enlistment Center and Civil War Hospital

Red Boiling Springs has long been a landmark in Macon County. It was a central crossroads for both Federal and Confederate forces during the Civil War.

The war came home for local residents on September 24, ...

Big Spring Presbyterian Church

Original log meeting house was erected 1737 near the Big Spring. Church was fully organized, October 1738. Present stone structure was built 1789, and in 1790 the trustees laid out Newville as a town on the church-owned glebe.

Marker is on ...

Dr. Bob's Home

The home of

Dr. Bob & Anne Smith

from 1916 to 1950

Co-founder of

Alcoholics Anonymous

—————

The birthplace of

Alcoholics Anonymous

June 10, 1935 Akron, Ohio

This property is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

State of Ohio Landmark

Dedicated by Congressman

John F. Seiberling

Marker ...

Newville War Memorial

They Died That We Might Live - They Rest In Honored Glory

Erected in honor of the men and women of this community who served in our armed forces and to those who made the supreme sacrifice that we may be ...

Florida

Settled early 1700’s and originally called Brooklands renamed Florida - from the Latin word, Floridus, which means covered with flowers.

Marker is on North Main St (New York Route 17A) 0.1 miles east of Meadow Road (County Route 25), on ...