Brownlee Ferry

Guiding Oregon Trail emigrants and a party of prospectors who had discovered gold in Boise Basin, Tim Goodale opened a new miners' trail through here in August 1862.

A gold rush followed that fall, and John Brownlee operated a ferry here ...

Fort Clinch Military Road

You are standing in the general location of the Fort Clinch Military Road. The photo represents what a typical military road looked like during the Civil War.

In 1847, with the start of the fort's construction, military engineers realized the necessity ...

Historic Marker of Battle Pass

At this point the old Porte Road or Valley Grove Road intersected the line of hills separating Flatbush from Brooklyn and Gowanus. In the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, this pass was barricaded in front by Dongan Oak ...

Cannon's Ferry

Isaac and Betty Cannon began operating a ferry here on Nanticoke River, Feb. 2, 1793. Their sons continued it, built stores and warehouses in the hamlet named for them.

The ferry became property of Sussex County following the brothers' death in ...

One of the “Big Four”

Here is the home of S. H. Newberry, who, with three others, composed the “Big Four” in the Virginia Senate. These four men united to defeat objectionable measures of the Readjuster Movement.

Marker is on Stony Fork Road (U.S. 52) near ...

Site of Jacobs School #143

In 1863 the Sussex County Levy Court formally approved the creation of a new school district to serve the needs of local citizens. A frame schoolhouse was constructed on this site on land provided by Thomas Jacobs. Measuring twenty feet ...

Line of Defense

August 27, 1776

Battle of Long Island

175 feet south

Siege of Valley Grove House

150 feet north

Marker is on East Drive, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Indian Old Fields

Within the bends of the Shenandoah River below the Indians kept fields burned off as pastures for deer and bison. These fields were "old" to the first white settlers who prized the fertile bottomlands. Today the old fields are sites ...

Great Wars of World Conflict

Dedicated in honor of the men and women from Caroline County who served their country during the great wars of world conflict.

Marker is at the intersection of Market Street and 1st Street, on the left when traveling east on Market ...

Liberation of Patmos

Capt. Terence Bruce Mitford

[Marker text printed in both Greek and English scripts:]

Erected by the Community of Patmos

to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of the Island, 10 February 1944

by Terence Bruce Mitford

Captain, Special Boat Services

February 2004

Marker is at the ...