Confederate Arms Factory

The H.C. Lamb & Co. gun factory was located 1 mile Northwest. Owned by Henry Clarkson Lamb, Anderson Lamb, Jehu Lamb, and F.J. Carpenter, the firm manufactured approximately 700 rifles for the state of North Carolina. The firm also sold ...

Fort Frederick

In the Middle of this Street

To the East Stood

Fort Frederick

Goal of Burgoyne's Drive to

Split the Colonies - 1777

Marker is at the intersection of Eagle Street and Eagle Street and State Street, on the right when traveling south on ...

African American Monument

We were stolen, sold and bought together from the African Continent

We got on the slave ships together, we lay back to belly in the holds of the

slave ships in each others excrement and urine together. Sometimes died

together and our lifeless ...

Battle of Rowlesburg

April 26, 1863

Cheat Bridges Become TargetSince 1861, a special target for destruction by order of both President Jefferson Davis and Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, Rowlesburg was the only town or outpost in western ...

Dowden's Ordinary: A French & Indian War Site

On April 15, 1755 a British seaman wrote in his diary:

  On the 15th: Marched at 5 in our way to one

Dowden's, a Publichouse ... and encamped upon

very bad ground on the side of a hill. We got ...

Irish Immigrants in Refugio

The history of settlement in Refugio is closely associated with Ballygarrett, County Wexford, Ireland. Irish natives James Powers(c.1788-1852) and James Hewetson (1796-1870), both of whom immigrated to the United States in the early 19th Century and later became citizens of ...

Historic Cassville Ferry

Cassville's first ferry, a 40-foot rowboat, crossed the Mississippi River in 1833. In 1836, the ferry carried a 23-year-old New Yorker named Nelson Dewey across the river. Dewey was lured to Cassville by its promise as the potential capital of ...

In Memory of the Brave Soldiers of the Continental Army

who died in this building when it was used by order of General Washington as a military hospital from Dec. 19, 1777 to Aug. 28, 1778. This tablet is erected by the Lititz Moravian Congregation

of the 450 men quartered here, ...

Doubleday Field

"Birthplace of Baseball"

Doubleday Field

"Birthplace of Baseball"

Reconstructed by

Works Progress

Administration

and

Village of Cooperstown

1938 - 1939

Marker can be reached from Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

France

France was the first nation to settle and develop the Lower Mississippi. Although they governed it for only 80 years, the French left a lasting impression on the river and its valley.

In 1673, Louis Jolliet, a French trader, and Father ...