Howard's March to Jonesboro

Aug. 1864. Howard’s Army of the Tenn. [US], having abandoned siege operations on the W. side of Atlanta, moved S. in a flanking march to cut the West Point R.R. at & below Shadnor Ch. On the 30th, the army ...

Bethesda Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

In 1879 William Lee Henderson (b1808), his wife Eleanor Shelby (b1817) and their nine children moved from their Alabama home to Texas by wagon train. Church records indicate worship services were held in a shelter built by the Hendersons shortly ...

British Route of March

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October 6, 1780

British

Route of March

Marker is on Battleground Drive, on the left when traveling south.

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Bethany Baptist Church

Bethany Primitive Baptist Church was initiated as an arm of Union Church in 1841, and was formally constituted in May, 1847.

In the cemetery adjoining the church, on the high bluff of Arabia Bay, are buried many of the pioneers of ...

On this site on November 25, 1960

On this site on November 25, 1960, the Annapolis citizens listed below held a "Sit-in" demonstration at the Terminal Restaurant to claim the right of all citizens to receive service. They acted as representatives of the local African American community ...

Charles W. Baldwin Hall

Constructed 1861

Relocated 1895

Enlarged 1935

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Relocated to this site

2 June 1981

Rededicated

21 May 1983

By the Severn

Cross Roads Foundation

Marker is on Millersville Road, on the right when traveling south.

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The Washburn and Pillsbury Clans

Minneapolis flour milling magnate, Cadwallader C. Washburn, was a member of a Maine family that sent four brothers to Congress, all from different states. Cadwallader served Wisconsin as congressman (1854-61, 1867-71) and governor (1872-73). His younger brother, William D. Washburn, ...

Morattico Baptist Church

On the hill is Morattico Church, organized in 1778, the mother Baptist church of the Northern Neck. The present building was erected in 1856. Lewis Lunsford, first pastor, is buried here.

Marker is at the intersection of Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway ...

Ditchley and Cobbs

Ditchley, five miles northeast, was patented in 1651 by Colonel Richard Lee. The first house dated from 1687, the present house was built by Kendall Lee in 1752.

Cobbs Hall, near by, was acquired by Richard Lee, probably before 1651. ...

Burrows Park

This land was bequeathed to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association in 1909 by one of its active members, George B. Burrows (1832 - 1909). The lake shore area was filled to its present level by dredging the lake ...