Oliver Mining Co. Headquarters / Oliver Shop Laboratory

Oliver Mining Co. Headquarters

This building was the heart of the Oliver operation, the largest iron ore mining operation in United States history. The Superintendent of Mines and his staff made the day-to-day mining decisions here, and they were supported ...

Martin Meylin’s Gunshop

Old gunshop, built in 1719, is located about one mile northeast. Here, before 1745 the earliest known Pennsylvania Rifle, misnamed Kentucky Rifle, was made. building is marked with a tablet.

Marker is on PA 222 0.2 miles north of Beaver Valley ...

Arthur Lee

Here in the garden of Lansdowne was buried Arthur Lee, 1740-1792. The youngest son of Thomas Lee of Stratford. He was graduated in medicine at Edinburgh in 1764 and practiced briefly at Williamsburg, but his zeal for the cause of ...

The Grave of Arthur Lee

Nearby, in the garden of Lansdowne, was buried Arthur Lee, 1740-1792, the youngest son of Thomas Lee of Stratford. Early in 1776 he secretly obtained the original grant of French military supplies for the Continental Army, which made possible the ...

To the Farthest Port

In the late 1700s and early 1800s Salem’s ships reached out to the world. From this wharf alone between 1785 and 1799, shipowner Elias Hasket Derby dispatched 170 trading vessels on pioneering voyages to China, India, the East Indies, and ...

Prehistoric Circular Earthworks / The Squaring of Circleville

Side A:

Prehistoric Circular Earthworks

Established as the county seat of Pickaway County in 1810, Circleville derives its name from the circular portion of a large Hopewell-era earthwork upon which it was built. The Circleville earthworks, described in 1772 by Rev. ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

In 1765 John and William Bartram, naturalists, began an extended trail from Savannah through Georgia and left a legacy of impressions.

Marker is on W. River Street near N. Barnard St., on the left.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Artillery

Rich Mountain Battlefield

Cannons mounted behind embankments on this hill made Confederate Camp Garnett a formidable position. Placed to sweep the turnpike below, they were 6-pounder smoothbores - light, mobile, and powerful at short range. Four cannons protected the Confederate works ...

Bridges' Battery, Illinois Light Art'y.

2 Napoleons, 4 - 3" Rifles.

Bridges' Battery, Illinois Light Art'y.

2 Napoleons, 4 - 3" Rifles.

Capt. Cullen Bradley's Artillery Battalion

Wood's Division, Granger's Corps.

Nov. 23 to 25, 1863.

Capt. Lyman Bridges, Commanding.

1st Lieut. Morris D. Temple.

2nd Lieut. Lyman A. White.

2nd Lieut. Franklin Seborn.

——————————

The ...

Malta & McConnelsville Fire Department 50th Anniversary

1930-1980

Dedicated in memory of all deceased members of the M & M Fire Dept.

Marker is at the intersection of Union Avenue and 4th Street, on the right when traveling west on Union Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org