Edward Chalmers Huffaker

July 16, 1856 – January 3, 1936

Born near Sevierville, Tennessee, Edward C. Huffaker earned degrees in mathematics and engineering. Between 1890 and 1892, while experimenting with gliders, he discovered the principle by which a curved wing surface generates lift. ...

Springfield Friends Meeting

Established in 1773 and organized as a Monthly Meeting, 1790. Building erected 1927 on original site is ½ mile east.

Marker is at the intersection of S Main Street (U.S. 311) and Fairfield Road, on the right when traveling west on ...

Kentish Guards Drill Field

1774-1974

Kentish Guards Drill Field

To those Kentish Guardsmen who in 1774 utilized this field to prepare themselves for the conflict that assured our independence. This tablet was dedicated on the 200th Anniversary of the Kentish Guards October 19, 1974

Marker can be ...

Ferry Hill

Farm, Ferry and Freedom

The brick home in front of you (Picture included) once stood at the heart of a Western Maryland plantation called "Ferry Hill." Built between 1812 and 1820, the plantation consisted of nearly 700 acres of land, a ...

Shavers Fork

Mountaintop Watershed

Near this point the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike crossed the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River, going over Cheat Mountain at a high point of almost 4000 feet at White Top. The Shavers Fork forms a high elevation watershed on top ...

Warsaw's First House

Near this site Elizur Webster erected the first dwelling in Warsaw in the Summer of 1803

Marker is on South Main Street (New York Route 19) just south of Livingston Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Astride the Road from Nowhere

"Our tents were pitched on a rocky point with a fine forest on every side and a magnificent view of the Alleghenies on front of us, a beautiful romantic, though desolate spot." - William Houghton, 14th Indiana Infantry, July 16, ...

In Memory of a Soldier

In memory of a soldier

of the War of 1812

buried here 1814

My brave lad he sleeps

In his faded coat of blue

In his lonely grave unknown

Lies the heart that beat so true

Marker is on Avon-Caledonia ...

Cheat Summit Fort

1861-1862

Cheat Summit Fort, also called “Fort Milroy,” was constructed by Federal troops in the summer of 1861. The fort was positioned to control the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. Initial work was conducted by six companies of the 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment under ...

Alfred Sorenson

1850 - 1939

Alfred Sorenson, the doyen of Omaha newspapermen, was a picturesque figure familiar around Omaha. His varied career led him to seek the offices of U.S. Senator twice and Congressman once. He was unsuccessful all three times, but remarked ...