Billeci Family Home

Old Town Martinez - Home of Historic Interest

Fisherman Giovanni Billecci immigrated to Martinez in 1899. After serving both in the French & Italian armies he and his wife Grazia, raised 14 children in this home.

Built 1916.

Marker is on Talbart Street ...

Cecil B. Strange

In memorium

to

Cecil B. Strange

An outstanding citizen who served his community with earnest endeavor and diligent work for community beautification, industrial reclamation and national conservation. Respected and loved by his fellow men as a friend, neighbor, and loyal American.

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Abner Hugh Cook

A native of North Carolina, Abner Cook came to the newly created capital city of Austin in 1839 with a skill in design and construction that soon earned him the title of master builder. Working as architect, engineer, and contractor, ...

Blazing Braddock's Road

“We this day passed the ‘Aligany’ Mountain (Big Savage Mountain) which is a rocky ascent of more than two miles, in many places extremely steep…”

Captain Robert Orme, June 15, 1755

British General Edward Braddock led a 2,100-man army through this wild ...

First Battle of the Revolution

[ Rear of Monument ]

Here

was fought the

Battle of

Alamance

between the

British and the

Regulators

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[ Right of Monument ]

Liberty

[ Left of Monument ]

1880

Marker is on North Carolina Route 62 east of Clapp Mill Road, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Soap Box Derby

An annual summer tradition for American youth since the 1930s, the All-American Soap Box Derby was the concept of journalist Myron E. ("Scottie") Scott, who covered an impromptu homebuilt gravity-car race in Dayton in 1933. Scott conceived and promoted a ...

Needwood Baptist Church and Needwood School

Needwood Baptist Church was organized in 1866 on nearby Broadfield Plantation as Broadfield Baptist Church of the Zion Baptist Association. This structure, built in the 1870s, was redesigned in 1885 when the church moved its congregation here. Its formation and ...

Brule–St. Croix Portage

The Brule and St. Croix rivers provide the natural water highway between Lake Superior and the Upper Mississippi. Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, in 1680 was the first white man to use this passage.

Traveling from Prairie du Chien in ...

Walker's Brigade

Johnson's Division - Ewell's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps Johnson's Division

Walker's Brigade

2nd. 4th. 5th. 27th. 33rd. Virginia Infantry

July 1 Arrived about nightfall and took position east of Rock Creek near Hanover Road at border of woods on left of Division.

July ...

Old Otterbein Church

"Mother Church" of the United Brethren in Christ. First chapel erected 1771, present edifice, 1785. Burial place of the denomination's founder, Philip Wilhelm Otterbein, pastor, 1774-1813. Lovely Lane Chapel, "Mother Church of American Methodism," organized on this site, 1772.

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