Mount Bleak Farm

The Settles Anticipate War

Mosby's Confederacy and First Manassas Campaign

In the early morning hours of July 19, 1861, thousands of campfire lights burned in the camp of Col. Thomas J. Jackson's brigade which occupied the fields surrounding nearby Paris. Many thoughts ...

Battle of Rich Mountain

Rich Mountain Battlefield

The battle was fought in this pass along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. Union forces led by General William S. Rosecrans stormed down the hill behind you. Confederates on guard here took cover behind log breastworks, farm buildings and large ...

Village of McFarland

Prehistoric woodland Indians built effigy mounds on the many glacial drumlins in this area, including those in Indian Mound Park. Later Winnebagoes lived along the shores of Lake Waubesa and the Yahara River. They ceded the land to the government ...

Great Falls Canal and Locks

National Historic

Civil Engineering Landmark

Great Falls Canal and Locks

Constructed 1785-1802. Operated until 1821

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These works were the major feature

of the first river navigation system

for trade with the west.

This pioneer waterway was begun

under the leadership of George Washington

as president of the Potowmack Company, ...

Fendall Hall

The Young - Dent Home

Marker Front:

Built between 1856 and 1860 by Edward Brown Young and his wife, Ann Fendall Beall, this was one of the first of the great Italianate style homes constructed in Eufaula. It later became the home ...

River of Change

The Potomac River at Great Falls

The Potomac River begins as a small spring near Fairfax Stone, West Virginia. Like a giant funnel it gathers water from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia as it travels 383 ...

Fourteenth Army Corps.

Maj. Gen. John M. Palmer.

Fourteenth Army Corps.

Maj. Gen. John M. Palmer.

Nov. 19-25, 1863

Johnson's Division - Brig. Gen. Richard W. Johnson.

Davis' Division - Brig. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis.

Baird's Division - Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird.

Nov. 19th Davis Division was detached and ordered ...

Site of Union Church, 1783-1819

Side A

A "union" church, one founded as a Presbyterian congregation but also used by other denominations, stood here from ca. 1783 to ca. 1819. The church was founded ca. 1765 at Brown's Creek, 2 or 3 mi. NE. It met ...

Fort St. Simons

On this site Fort St.Simons was built by

English troops under command of General

James Edward Oglethorpe in 1783. It guarded

the entrance to the Frederica River through

which ships must pass to reach Fort Frederica.

With nearby Delegal's Fort, it turned the

southern tip ...

Franklin Augustus "F. A." Seiberling and The Goodyear Tire and R

Industrialist and entrepreneur Franklin Augustus Seiberling (1859-1955) named his fledgling rubber goods manufacturing company "Goodyear" to honor Charles Goodyear, the man who invented the vulcanization process for curing rubber. Seiberling founded the company with his brother, Charles Willard, because of ...