The 1923 Berkeley Fire

On the morning of September 17, 1923, a grass fire spread from Wildcat Canyon over the hills into Berkeley. Driven by hot, dry winds, the fire spread rapidly across the northeast residential districts of the city, burning as far south ...

Site of Barton House

Site of Barton House, a beautiful Georgian style structure built in 1785 by James Maury, whom George Washington appointed as the first American ambassador to England. Guests in the Barton House included such notables as General Robert E. Lee and ...

Flora Molton

1908-1990

Flora Molton sang what she called “spiritual and truth music,” a combination of traditional religious songs and her own compositions. Born here in Louisa County, the daughter of the Reverend and Mrs. William Rollins, she began singing in church. At ...

“Cliffton”

On this location Maj. R. G. Watson and his daughter Mary, both Confederate agents, lived and carried on a direct mail and slave route between the North and the South during the entire Civil War. Because of the unobstructed view ...

Campaign of 1781

Here Lafayette, moving west to protect a supply depot in Albermarle from Cornwallis, entered this road, June 13, 1781.

Marker is on Three Notch Road (U.S. 250) west of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 208), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

To the Confederate Dead

(Text of tablet placed in 1992):In honor of Confederate Soldiers

who died in Fredericksburg Oct 1861 through Mar 1862

and buried in Barton St. Cemetery

No record of reinterment when site reused in 1920

Alabama

14th Infantry-

Archer G.W.

Barron W

Blair R

Brooks J M

Chalk B P

Clark J ...

Myrtle Grove Game Refuge

800 acres, purchased May 25, 1929, from Walter J. Mitchell, Attorney for Mortgagee; from Hunter's License Fund, for the purpose of propagating game.

Marker is at the intersection of Hawthorne Road (Maryland Route 225) and Myrtle Grove Road, on the right ...

Beaufort County, South Carolina

Colonial And Revolutionary Period

1711-1860

During the Colonial period the Beaufort district grew and prospered. Rice was produced for export on the mainland, indigo in the sea islands, shipbuilding flourished. The Parish System developed as the political basis and Beaufort competed with ...

The Caldwell Family

Owned these three houses. Emigrated from Ireland 1798-99. Settled in Salisbury Mills 1802. Here operated a general store, mill and tanning business.

Marker is on Orrs Mills Road (County Route 20) 0.2 miles north of Route 94 (New York Route 94). ...

Knieskem Farm

Settled by Hendrick

Knieskem about 1750

Marker is on Cross Road, on the right.

Courtesy hmdb.org