Damascus Baptist Church

Damascus Baptist Church, organized July 29, 1820, was constituted by Samuel Cartledge and Widner Hilman. First members were Jeremiah Blanchard, James Ramsey, Jeremiah Roberts, Sara Blanchard, Sara Reid, Dilly Swan and Margaret Wilkins. James Ramsey was the first clerk of ...

Archibald Bulloch

"This is no time to talk of moderation; in the

present instance it ceases to be a virtue."

Speech to Provincial Congress, JUNE ?, 1776

Foremost among Georgia's Revolutionary patriots stood Archibald Bulloch whose remains rest in this vault. An early and ...

Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway

[Marker Front]:

The Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway (DS&U) was an “Interurban” rail system that ran between the cities of Urbana, Springfield and Dayton. Its beginning can be traced to the franchise given to William H. Hanford to operate a ...

Xue, Bian, and Sun Memorial

These Urbana University MBA students lost their lives in an auto accident in Springfield, OH.

Gone but not forgotten

Xue, Bing (Jo)

12/31/1982-3/8/2007

Liaoning Province

Bian, Jin (Jack)

10/13/1979-3/8/2007

Liaoning Province

Sun, Yan (Zoe)

6/22/1982-3/8/2007

Marker is on Blue Knight Drive, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Henry Brooks Farm

At the distant end of the field in front of you stood the home of Henry Brooks, the first owner of much of what would become Popes Creek Plantation.

As you look toward the house site, perhaps you can sense the ...

Bedford’s Volunteer Company

Oct. 10, 1774

In memory of

Bedford’s Volunteer Company

which fought in

The Battle of Point Pleasant

Thomas Buford, Captain

Thomas Dooley, Lieut.

Sergeants

Jonathan Cundiff, Ensign

Nicholas Mead • William Kennedy • John Fields • Thomas Fliping

Abraham Sharp • Absalom McClanahan • William Bryant • William McColister • ...

Bailey and Barclay Halls / Johnny Appleseed

Side A:

Bailey and Barclay Halls

Urbana University was established by the Swedenborgian Church in 1850. Bailey Hall (1853), named after Francis Bailey (1735-1815), was designed by W. Russell West, architect of the Statehouse of Ohio. Bailey was an American ...

The Freestone Point Hunt Club

The Freestone Point Hunt Club was established in 1926 by a group of businessmen from New York. The large waterfowl populations found along the Potomac, and the proximity of the railroad made Freestone Point both attractive and accessible to hunters ...

Battle of Wyse Fork

Last Mass Capture of Union Troops

The yellow sidebar in the upper left of the marker provides a brief synopsis of the Carolinas Campaign. It states:

The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman ...

Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine

Located in Prince William Forest Park, the Pyrite Mine trail leads you to a peaceful, open expanse above the banks of the Quantico Creek. From 1889 to 1920 the area was busy with the sights, sounds and smells of mining. ...