The Heinsdorff Bakery

In 1862, tinsmith Louis Robinson constructed this brick and stone building to replace his original frame store which was destroyed in the fire of August 20, 1859. In 1869 it became a bakery and store, a use it was to ...

Great War For Democracy Memorial

[ main panel ]

"Their bodies are buried in peace;

but their name liveth for evermore."

Ecclesiastes 44:14

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely ...

Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church

This one-story Victorian Gothic structure dates back to 1870. The cornerstone of the church indicates that the building was constructed in 1870 with the basement added in 1890. This suggests that the original wooden church was raised, a basement added, ...

The Cumberland Valley Railroad

The first railroad to serve Hagerstown was the Franklin Railroad (F.R.R.). The City of Hagerstown invested $20,000 in this venture. The F.R.R. connected Hagerstown to the Cumberland Valley Railroad (C.V.R.R.) which ran from Chambersburg to Harrisburg. Service began in 1841. ...

Heidt - Russell House / Edwin R. Russell

Heidt - Russell House

This house, with Greek Revival and Italianate architectural influences, was built about 1879 by William J. Heidt, builder and contractor who managed Heidlinger’s Steam Bakery. The Heidts lived here until 1912. Mary E. Russell, whose husband Nathaniel ...

Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto (1852-1968)

(side one)

Four Sisters of Loretto, Mother Magdalen Hayden and Sisters Roberta Brown, Rosana Dant and Catherine Mahoney, arrived in Santa Fe from Kentucky on September 26, 1852. In January 1853 they established Our Lady of Light Academy, later known as ...

Site of the Old Baptist Meeting House

" Here, in 1794, I had the happiness,

instrumentally, to lay the foundation of

a place of worship which composed of

the best materials, and classes with the

most neat and commodious Baptist

meetinghouses in the United States."

(Rev. Henry Holcombe, First Fruits ...

Outer Defenses

By 1864, a complex series of fortifications north of Richmond and the James River protected the capital of the Confederacy. The outer line of western defenses crossed the road (then called the Deep Run Turnpike) here. The intermediate defensive line ...

Albemarle Confederate Monument

1909

Erected by

the Daughters of

the Confederacy,

Albemarle County,

and the City of

Charlottesville

to commemorate

the heroism of

the volunteers of

Charlottesville and

Albermarle County.

"Love makes

memory eternal."

Marker is on Court Square near 5th Street NE.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Historic Taverns on this Road

Five miles South on this road, George Washington spent Sunday night, May 15, 1791, at the house of "one Spencer." The occasion was Washington's Southern tour, and he was traveling in his carriage over this road from Savannah to Augusta.

Four ...