Millersburg Ferry

The only surviving ferry service across the Susquehanna began as early as 1825. boats were poled by manpower until 1873, when the first paddlewheeler was acquired. In the 1920's, gasoline engine replaced steam power, and the paddlewheels were shifted from ...

Millen Flagpole

This flagpole and flags were placed

here on April 30, 2000 by the

Jenkins County Development Authority

to honor all servicemen who served

in the American Revolution,

World War I, World War II,

The Korean Conflict, The Vietnam War.

and Desert Storm.

Arrangements Committee:

Hubert Reeves, Jr., Frank Edenfield,

E.J. ...

“Fall Hill”

On the heights one mile to the west, the home of the Thorntons from about 1736. Francis Thornton 2nd was a Justice, a Burgess 1744-45, and Lieut.-Colonel of his Majesty's militia for Spotsylvania County. He and two of his brothers ...

Frémont's Camp

En Route to the Shenandoah Valley

For two nights beginning on May 28, 1862, Union Gen. John C. Frémont and his approximately 20,000-man army camped on the broad, rolling plateau before you. They had marched from Franklin (Pendleton Co.) three days ...

First Public Library Building in West Hartford

First Public Library

Building in West Hartford

Erected as a Memorial to

Noah Webster

Presented to the Town by

Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

Aided by Funds Collected from Townspeople

February 27, 1917

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and Brace Road, ...

Shockly’s Escort Company Of Cavalry

In Memoriam PerpetuamCaptain Bascom T. Shockly’s Escort Company Of Cavalry

In the hour of their country’s peril. Unmindful of self and fired only by patriotic devotion

Bascom T. Shockly and nineteen students of the

University of Alabama

Joined themselves with twenty nine other Alabama ...

Battery K, Fifth U.S. Artillery

Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps

Battery K Fifth U.S. Artillery

Four 12 pounders

Lieut. David H. Kinzie commanding

July 1 Marched to within a mile and half of Gettysburg.

July 2 At daylight took position to Command a gap between the First and Twelfth ...

West Hartford

West Hartford

In 1672-1677 Hartford created the West Division by sub-dividing a tract bounded by Quaker Lane, Mountain Road, and the towns of Bloomfield and Newington. Later this was enlarged by lands from Hartford and Farmington. Our first settler, Stephen Hosmer, ...

Early Life in the Backcountry

Gouedy's Trading Post and Fort Ninety Six

Robert Gouedy established a trading post on this site in 1753. He supplied cloth, tools, gunpowder, lead, and rum to the soldiers, Indians, slaves, and settlers who passed through Ninety Six on the way ...

Dr. Reifsnyder

Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnyder, M.D., a pioneer medical missionary to China for more than thirty years, lived in this house both before and after her work abroad. Born 1858, she died here in 1922.

Marker is on U.S. 11/15 near Elm Street, ...