Telfair Family Mansion

(1818 - William Jay, Architect)

This building is one of the City's outstanding examples of Regency architecture. The main floor and basement kitchens are maintained as a historic house museum. The rotunda and west wing are later additions. It was left ...

Gen'l Felix K. Zollicoffer

On this spot fell Gen'l Felix K. Zollicoffer of Tennessee, Jan. 19, 1862. Lieuts. Bailie Peyton Jr., H.M.R. Fogs and more than 150 of their Confederate associates in the Battle of Fishing Creek, here died with Gen'l Zollicoffer for right ...

Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences

Open to the Public ~~~

Created under the Will of Miss Mary Telfair (c. 1789-1875), the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences opened as the first public art museum in the Southeast with a preliminary private showing February 12, 1885.

Fort Delaware / Narrowsburg’s History

Upper Delaware Scenic Byway

The present day Fort, a replica of the frontier “lower fort” of the Cushetunk settlement of 1755-1785, was originally located six miles up river near Milanville, Pennsylvania. Another fort was situated further up river in the Cushetunk ...

The Battle of Piqua, or Picawey

Before you lay Piqua, or Picawey, a Shawnee settlement where 1,000 Kentucky militiamen under Col. George Rogers Clark defeated an alliance of Shawnee, Delaware, Mingo and Wyandot warriors on August 8, 1780 in the largest battle fought west of the ...

Fredericksburg Campaign

December 13, 1862. This highway, the Old Richmond Stage Road, here passes wartime Smithfield, now the Fredericksburg Country Club. Out of the ravine alongside the present golf links (your left front), Meade’s Division emerged to form lines of battle and ...

Madison County World War Roll of Honor

Dedicated by the Citizens of London

to the Glory of God and to all those

of Madison who served in

the World War 1914-1918

[Roll of Honor]

The names and deeds of those who rendered service in defense of the American ideals of liberty and ...

Fairplay Community Veterans Memorial

Dedicated by the people

of this community to the

memory of those who gave

their lives in the great wars.

Marker is on North Fairplay Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Surrender of Confederate Troops

May 12, 1865

Brig. Gen. Wm. T. Wofford [CS] arranged with Brig. Gen. Henry M. Judah, U.S.A. for the surrender of some 3000 to 4000 Confederate soldiers, mostly Georgians, not paroled in Virginia, N. Carolina, and elsewhere.

During final negotiations, Gen. Wofford´s ...

First White Settlers of Madison County

In commemoration of

the first white settlers

of Madison County,

the first of whom was

Jonathan Alder

1795 - 1815

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Ohio Route 68) and High Street (U.S. 42), on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy ...