Landsford / Landsford In The Revolution

[Front Side]

Located about 4 mi. E., this ford, an early Indian crossing, was probably named for Thomas Land who received a nearby land grant from the Crown in 1775. Used by Patriot and British armies during the American Revolution. ...

North Bloomfield Drain Tunnel

One of the great engineering feats in Nevada County hydraulic mining history was the drilling of the 7,874 foot drain tunnel, nearly 200 feet below you.

This project was engineered by Hamilton Smith.

Eight vertical shafts of up to 200 feet in ...

Site of Lake City

(AKA Painesville)

First cabin built 1853

Pop. 340 in 1857

On this spot stood the livery stable of Bridget Waldon

Marker is at the intersection of Lake City Road and North Bloomfield Road on Lake City Road.

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Corricks Ford

Retreat Becomes Disaster

Federal victory at Rich Mountain on July 11, 1861, forced Confederate Gen. Robert S. Garnett's 4,000 troops to retreat from Laurel Hill in Barbour County. Garnett, fearing that his escape route was blocked, struck northeast. His goal was ...

Fort Frederick

Fort Frederick Governor Edmund Andros Made an Inspection in Albany in 1676 and Found Fort Orange, Located Near the Foot of Madison Avenue in Poor Condition. He Ordered a New Fort Constructed at a Site in the Center of State ...

A Behemoth in the Field

240mm T1 Gun, Watervleit Arsenal, New York, c. 1950, serial number 1.

280mm T72 Gun Carriage, Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts, c. 1952. WM 87.31.7 a,b

The 240mm gun provided a bridge between conventional cannons and atomic cannons. In November 1944 the U.S. Army ...

First Hawaiian Printing

January 7, 1822

In a grass house near this site High Chief Keeaunoku pulled the first sheet in the presence of Elisha Loomis, Printer; the Reverend Hiram Bingham; and James Hunnewell, Mission benefactor.

Marker is on South King Street south of Kawaiahao ...

Stephen C. Foster

On the site of this school

between the years 1846 - 1850 lived

Stephen C. Foster

Master of the Art of Song

Composer of

My Old Kentucky Home

Swanee River

Old Black Joe

and many others

In Native ballad form ...

Clarendon County Confederate Monument

(North face)

CSA

Erected

to the

soldiers

from Clarendon

County

Who served in The War

for Southern

Independence.

Charleston - 1861

Appomattox - 1865.

(East face)

Hope, like the eastern sun,

rose bright in the heart of

the southerner for home

government and the Confed-

erate States of America.

Overwhelming in numbers and

with resources inexhaustable,

he fought with ...

Warwick County Confederate Monument

1881-Virginia-1865

Unveiled May 27, 1909

to our

Gallant Soldiers

of the

Confederacy

Warwick County

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Old Courthouse Way and Courthouse Drive, on the left when traveling west.

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