Siege of Fort Watson

During the American Revolution, Colonel Lee

and his Legion joined General Marion's Brigade

along the Santee River. They laid seige to British

held Fort Watson on top of Santee Indian Mound.

Major Maham's idea was to build a tower for

sharpshooters to fire inside ...

Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal AME Zion Church

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Located at the heart of Montgomery's historic African-American neighborhoods. Mount Zion A.M.E. Zion Church was constructed in 1899 and heavily remodeled in 1921. It served as a significant Center for religious, political, and social life for blacks in Montgomery ...

Indian River Park – In The Heart Of Olde Wythe

“A Forward Movement in Suburban Development”

On this site in 1916 local businessman and developer Charles Hopkins and his partners launched the Boulevard Development Company, to build “attractive, high class home places” half way between Hampton and Newport News. With the ...

First Post Road

The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738–39, passed near this spot.

Marker is at the intersection of New Bern Highway (U.S. 17) and Boyd Farm Road, on the right ...

Hofmann Forest

Named for J. V. Hofmann. Research forest of 80,000 acres in Jones & Onslow counties. Acquired, 1934, for use by North Carolina State University.

Marker is at the intersection of New Bern Highway (U.S. 17), on the right when traveling south ...

Recreation and Refreshment

Restoring the Vision ... Preserving the Legacy

"We are definitely in an era of building the best kind of buildings the building of a great projects for the benefit of the public and with the definite objectives of building human happiness". ...

Sounds of the byway...moccasins and tears.

Frontier Military Scenic Byway

Potawatomi Tribal members were marched from Indiana in 1838 to be relocated on Indian Territory lands. The march was long and arduous. Many Potawatomi, especially children and the elderly, died of illness along the way. Those who ...

Fort Watson

The first post in S.C. retaken from the British, the stockade fort on this old Indian mound had controlled the road from Charleston to Camden as well as the Santee River. On April 15, 1871, Gen. Francis Marion and Lt. ...

The Hampton Roads Golf And Country Club

First in Virginia & One of the First 100 in the Country

The Hampton Roads Golf and Country Club was established in 1893 on undeveloped land purchased for speculation by Mary Frances Armstrong in 1888. This site today would extend from ...

Sounds from the past...hoof beats and heartbeats.

Frontier Military Scenic Byway

Pro- and anti-slavery forces made their way to this area on horseback and on foot in the fight over whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state. Skirmishes, scuffles and screams could be heard ...