Wreck of the Shenandoah

“Wind increasing in volume. Get no chance to....” These were the last words from the doomed Navy airship Shenandoah, caught in a violent storm and crashing 7 miles southwest of this spot near Ava at dawn, September 3, 1925. Fourteen ...

End of Santa Fe Trail

This stone marks the end of the

Santa Fe Trail

1822 – 1879

Marker is at the intersection of East San Francisco Street and Old Santa Fe Trail, on the left when traveling east on East San Francisco Street.

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Winyah Indigo Society

Springing from the fervor for indigo, the colony’s vital new crop for making blue dye, the Winyah Indigo Society was begun in 1755 and incorporated 1757 to ensure stronger financial support for the free school which it had founded. Thomas ...

Dentist's Office

Tooth decay was a common and greatly feared ailment in earlier days.

People either had to make do with a painful tooth or find someone to pull it. If a trained dentist could not be found or afforded, a blacksmith or ...

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Guernsey County

United States of America

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Guernsey County

Civil War

Cox, Robert M. - Corporal - Mississippi - 1863

Power, Albert - Private - Arkansas - 1862

Richardson, William ...

World War I Monument

Honor Roll

In honor of the citizens of this vicinity

who served our country in the great

World War of 1914-1918

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H. Dallas Fogg • Foster H. Van Ness • Joseph R. Williams • William P. Conover • Paul H. McKee • Edward C. ...

Guernsey County Desert Storm Memorial

In honor of those who served in Operation Desert Storm

“I have seen in your eyes a fire of determination to get this job done quickly so that we may all return to the shores of our great nation. My confidence ...

The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

Founded May 1, 1848 at Jefferson College by Daniel Webster Crofts

James Elliott

Naaman Fletcher

Ellis Bailey Gregg

John Templeton McCarty

Samuel Beatty Wilson

Fortiter

Fideliter

Feliciter

Marker is on South College Street (U.S. 19) south of East Beau Street (Pennsylvania Route 136), on the left when ...

Mary Todd Lincoln

On this site Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln, was born Dec. 13, 1818, and here spent her childhood.

Marker is on West Short Street.

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David Wark Griffith

1875 - 1948

Oldham County native buried here. Renowned as director-producer of The Birth of a Nation, film drama of Civil War and post-bellum era, and also Intolerance, Orphans of the Storm, Broken Blossoms. He created dramatic and photographic effects, close-up ...