3rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry

U.S.A.

The men of the 3rd WV fought their way up this ravine extending their line of battle along the mountainside until they joined with the 28th Ohio. Upon reaching the top, they helped break the Confederate line and pursued the ...

Fort Gatlin 1838

Marking the site of

Fort Gatlin 1838

Military Outpost

Marker is at the intersection of Gatlin Avenue and South Summerlin Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Gatlin Avenue.

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2nd West Virginia Mounted Infantry

U.S.A.

From this deep ravine, the 2nd WV battled its way to the mountaintop and was actively engaged in the fighting here at the Confederate center. Lieutenant J. B. Smith, the youngest officer in the regiment, was the first Federal soldier ...

Fort Harrison

Fort Harrison served as one of the principal works in Richmond's defenses during the Civil War. On 29 Sept. 1864, Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James launched a two-pronged attack against Richmond's defenses as Lt. Gen. Ulysses ...

Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement

Four Students at North Carolina A & T State University conducted the first lunch counter sit-in on February 1, 1960 at the Woolworth Store.

Franklin McCain

Joseph McNeil

Ezell Blair, Jr.

David Richmond

"Sometimes taking a stand for what is undeniably right means taking a ...

"But I Can Fire a Pistol"

"But remember this, I am a girl, but I can fire a pistol and if ever the time comes I will send some of you to the place where there is [sic] 'weeping and knashing of teeth'...."

Gene Campbell, in a ...

City of Lexington

Incorporated 1828

Named during the

Revolutionary War

in 1775 after

the Battle of

Lexington.

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street and W Center Street, on the right when traveling south on N Main Street.

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Battlefield of Malvern Hill

Against the Federals holding this eminence, the Confederates delivered repeated assaults from the North on July 1, 1862 and lost about 5,000 men in the final, indecisive Battle of the Seven Days’ Campaign. That night McClellan withdrew to Harrison's Landing, ...

8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry

U.S.A.

With help from the Federal artillery, the 8th WV attacked the Confederate center by climbing up the cleared face of this ridge. There they were joined by the 2nd WV, overran the the breastworks and forced the defending Confederates to ...

Battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle

On Sept. 25, 1864 Gen. N.B. Forrest's Confederate cavalry, with Morton's battery of 4 guns, attacked and captured the Union fort near here. The fort consisted of a square redoubt, rifle pits, two blockhouses, and some frame buildings. It protected ...