Confederate Memorial Chapel

The chapel was erected in 1887 in memory of the more than 260,000 Confederate war dead and as a place of worship for the veterans who resided here in the Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home. The veterans themselves, ...

Judge Calvin Maples Cureton

September 1, 1874 – April 8, 1940

Born in Bosque County of a noted pioneer family. A legislator (1909-13); first Assistant Attorney General (1913-18); Attorney General (1918-21). As Chief Justice (1921-40) Texas Supreme Court, recorded longest service in court’s first century.

With ...

The Emigrant's Dream

Cumberland Gap, the break in the ridgeline you see ahead, is far more than just a pass through a long, rugged mountain barrier. For a generation of American pioneers this was the gateway from their old lives and limitations out ...

Salem Methodist Campground

Begun in 1826, the Salem Methodist Campground moved to this site in 1842. Meeting in October of each year, except 1863 & 1864, it is the oldest regularly held Methodist camp meeting in Mississippi.

Marker is on Salem Campground Road, on ...

Site of J. E. B. Stuart's Death

Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart, C.S.A., Commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, died here on May 12, 1864, in the home of his brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Brewer. Cause of his death was a wound received ...

Veterans Day November 11th 1995

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of America’s victory in World War II. The people of Storey County, Nevada, dedicate this plaque to America’s sons and daughters who service in her armed forces make her free and kept her free.

Army – Navy ...

Washington’s Temporary Headquarters

This boulder which lay from time immemorial

on this site near the turn of the old road

marks the location of a house used by

General George Washington

as temporary headquarters

on October 26, 1780

while on march from Totowa now Paterson

to support Lafayette’s expedition against

the ...

Confederate Storehouse Burned By Federal Troops

April 20, 1865

On this site stood the stone warehouse of Captain Thomas Truss and Marcus Worthington. Stored here were meats, grains and clothing collected by the Confederate government as a war tax. Disabled C.S.A. veteran Felix M. Wood was receiver ...

Post-Appomattox Tragedy

On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended.

Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz,

and two other armed veterans of Co. D,

7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal

cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.

The horses were returned the next day to ...

Lafayette Headquarters

This stone was the doorstep of the house occupied by Lafayette as headquarters.

Eagle Rock Chapter D.A.R.

1938

Marker is on Valley Road (County Route 621), on the left when traveling south.

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