Battle of Cross Keys

Trimble’s Ravine

On June 8, 1862, Confederate Gen. Isaac R, Trimble led part of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment through the then-swampy ravine in front of you to attack Union Gen. Louis Blenker’s division. Trimble intended to move around the 54th ...

Battle of Cross Keys

Immigrant Soldiers

Many immigrants fought for the North and the South during the Civil War. Their numbers were especially high in Gen. Louis Blenker’s division of Gen. John C. Fremont’s union army at Cross Keys on June 8, 1862.

Two Germans (Gen. ...

Battle of Cross Keys

Slaughter of the 8th New York Infantry

On June 8, 1862, during the Battle of Cross keys, Gen. Isaac R. Trimble’s Confederate brigade of a little more than 1,500 men occupied this line, a masked position behind a split-rail fence in ...

The Battle of Cross Keys

“It was not in men to stand such fire as that.”

Following Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s victory at Winchester, Union troops pursued the Confederates south, “up” the Shenandoah Valley. While Gen. John C. Fremont advanced on the Valley Turnpike, another ...

Moore’s Crossing Bridge

This structure was originally part of a six-span bridge across the Colorado River at Congress Avenue in Austin. Constructed there in 1884, it was designed by the King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1910 it was ...

Cross Creek Church

Founded by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who began to hold services in 1775 at Vance's Fort, 1 mile north. Original church built here and first pastor called in 1779. The present church building was erected 1864.

Marker is at the intersection of Cross ...

Nottoway River Crossings

Several important river crossings took place

over the Nottoway River during two wars.

Revolutionary War cavalry commander Lt.Col.

John Graves Simcoe led British forces across

the river in this area on 11 May 1781, as he

rode south to join Gen. Charles Cornwallis.

In mid May, ...

The Wilderness Road Crossing of the Clinch River

In 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen, following a Native American trade route, blazed a trail from the Anderson Blockhouse to a site on the Kentucky River. This trail, later to become the Wilderness Road, traversed 200 miles ...

Crosswicks Quaker Meeting

Religious Society of Friends

Quakers settled Crosswicks in 1677 and purchased this land toward the end of that century. Friends have worshiped on this site continuously since that time. The smaller building was erected in the mid 1780's for use as ...

Retreat Crossing

June 25, 1876

During Reno's retreat from the timber, Crazy Horse, Wooden Leg, Black Elk, and perhaps as many as 600 warriors chase the soldiers across the Little Bighorn River. Reno's casualties are 40 men killed and 13 wounded. The remnants ...