Doolittle Raiders

Symbolizing the strength and endurance of South Carolinians, these Palmetto trees commemorate the Columbia trained Doolittle Raiders whose courage and patriotism in the early hours of World War II rallied

a beleagured nation to save Western civization and all mankind ...

Walnut Hill Academy

Walnut Hill Academy, one of the famous schools of its time, was established in 1788 by the Rev. John Springer, in a building erected close to his house on this plantation. Among the Students taught by Mr. Springer at the ...

East Arkdale Cemetery

On July 11, 1859, Mr. Halvor Olson offered this 1/2 acre of his land to be used as a cemetery for the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Hauge Synod) here in the Roche a Cree (Arkdale) settlement. People of ...

2nd Company Andrew Sharpshooters

July 2nd 1863.

2nd Co Andrew

Sharp Shooters

Mass. Vols.

Marker is on Sickles Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Vestal's Gap Road IV

The Vestal's Gap Road was a major east-west trade and travel route. George Washington used it from 1753 to 1799 as he traveled on surveying business, for personal reasons and for military purposes in the French and Indian Wars. There ...

32nd Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

Here the

32nd Massachusetts Infy.

2nd Brig. 1st. Div. 5th A.C.

withstood an attack of the enemy

about 5 o'clock p.m. July 2, 1863

Withdrawn here, it fought again in the

Wheatfield

Lost in both actions

killed and wounded

79 out of 227 officers and men

Marker ...

Gervais Street Bridge

The first bridge at Gervais Street was a covered wooden structure built in 1827 by the Columbia Bridge Company. It remained until 1865 when Confederate soldiers burned it and other bridges to delay the

advance of Sherman's troops. Rebuilt in ...

Vestal's Gap Road III

In 1722 Governor Spotswood's treaty with the Indians was ratified, which kept them west of the Blue Ridge Mountains and north of the Potomac River. Early settlers found the Indian trails in Loudoun County and made them into roads. Loudoun ...

Vestal's Gap Road II

The local Indians followed the paths made by the animals they sought as game and made them into regularly used trails. Archaeologists have found and investigated many sites where Indians lived along the Potomac River and the larger creeks such ...

Signal Beacon and the “Old Sow”

1776

Here in the time of the American Revolution stood the Signal Beacon and by its side the cannon known as the “Old Sow” which in time of danger and invasion summoned the patriotic “Minute Men” of this vicinity to the ...