John D. Baxter

This marks the spot where John D. Baxter, Orderly Sergeant, Co. F, 10th W.Va. Inft. Fell inside the Confederate line leading the last charge, November 6th, 1863.

Marker can be reached from Seneca Trail (U.S. 219) near George Hill Road (County ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

Position of the Confederate Left Wing

On the main Confederate line, eight miles long, which here crossed the Old Church Road, the Federal Army, June 3, 1864, made numerous futile and costly charges. The heaviest of these were three miles southeastward ...

The Battle At Droop Mountain

November 6, 1863

Nearly five months after West Virginia was admitted into the Union, the Confederate army of Brigadier General John Echols still occupied the prosperous Greenbrier Valley region of the new state. From its headquarters in Lewisburg, his army was ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

Main Line of Anderson’s Left Wing

The Confederate earthworks here crossing this road were occupied May 31 – June 12, 1864, by the Left Division “Fields” of the First Corps. Then commanded by R.H. Anderson. Heavily attacked on June 3, this ...

Washington Boro Archaeological Sites

This area contains one of the highest concentrations of archaeological sites in Pennsylvania. The sites range from small camps to large villages and cover 11,000 years of Native American culture. the largest villages were built by the Susquehannocks who controlled ...

Locomotive Turntable

For 103 years, beginning in 1854, a train powered by a steam locomotive pulled into the Niagara Dock. At first it only came from Chippawa via Niagara Falls and Queenston but by 1863 the line had been extended as far ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

The Confederate Main Line

Here Longstreet’s Corps, with Breckinridge and A.P. Hill’s Corps to the southward, repulsed on June 3, 1864, fourteen assaults from the East against the confederate main line. The federal losses, about 7000, were the heaviest ever sustained ...

Columbia

In 1726 Quaker John Wright built a log house in an area first granted to George Beale by William Penn 25 years earlier. Wright established a ferry at this natural crossing point on the Susquehanna in 1730. Originally known as ...

Burial of Peter Lassen

“In November 1859 – almost half a year after Lassen’s death, another party with Joe Kitts, Antone Storff, and John Tutt, began a new trip back to Black Rock. The men were going to bring the remains of Peter Lassen’s ...

Dr. Harold B. Sightler

Psalm 78:19: Can God Furnish a Table in the Wilderness?

Interchange Named in Honor of

Dr. Harold B. Sightler

1914-1995

Founder of:

Tabernacle Baptist Church

1952-1995

Christian Schools

Children's Home

Baptist College

Tabernacle Baptist Missions International

WTBI AM & FM

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Champion of Old Time Religion

Marker is on White Horse Road (U.S. 25) ...