The Battle of Reams Station

The Petersburg (& Weldon) Railroad

As early as September 1829, business interests in Petersburg wanted to build a railroad between Petersburg, Virginia and Weldon, North Carolina. The railroad would connect the Appomattox and Roanoke river and attract trade away from ...

Red House and the McDowell Family

Nearby once stood a log house painted red built by the McDowell family. John McDowell received land here for surveying Borden's Grant in the late 1730's. In 1742 McDowell was killed during a conflict between settlers and Indians. Dr. Ephraim ...

Manasquan Fire Bell

In honor of those men who have volunteered their services in the Manasquan Fire Dept.

This bell has served since the 1870s to summon firemen to fires.

Marker is on Abe Voorhees Drive near Preston Way.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lincoln Funeral Train

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, created a national tragedy, and the nation mourned as his body was transported by rail from Washington D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried. In Champaign County, Ohio, the ...

First Iron Bridge

The first iron truss bridge in the U.S. was built in 1845 in the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad blacksmith shop, just south of here. It was designed for the railroad in 1844 by Richard B. Osborne.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson Monument

[Carving Side]

"I was born in So Carolina, as I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about one mile from the Carolina Road X of the Waxhaw Creek" Andrew Jackson to J.H. Witherspoon, August 11, 1824.

Jackson said ...

Goldfield Mining District

Arizona

Originally called the Superstition Mining District, this district had its heyday from 1893 to 1898.

The greatest producing mines were the Mammoth, Black Queen and bull Dog. Their output was around a million dollars in gold and silver based on 1890's ...

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

CW2 Sheldon Schultz

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

1973

Marker is on 6th Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 764) near 17th Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Boy of the Waxhaws

By Anna Hyatt Huntington

This statue of the young Andrew Jackson is a gift to the children of South Carolina by the sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington. Children of the elementary schools throughout the state contributed their nickel and dimes for the ...

Summer Home of Joseph Habersham

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This was the summer home of Joseph Habersham of Savannah (1751-1815), Georgia patriot, Revolutionary War hero, and political leader. He was a Colonel in the Continental Army, a member of Continental Congress, and of the Georgia Convention that ratified the ...