Old Stage Road / Railroads in Simpsonville

Old Stage Road

The town of Simpsonville grew up around a stagecoach stop nearby operated by Thomas Goldsmith (1788-1868). Goldsmith's house, on the Old Stage Road from Laurens to Greenville, was near a crossroads where the Old Stage Road met an ...

Colonial Roads

The town of Haymarket, chartered in 1799, owes its location to the junction of the Old Carolina Road and the north branch of the Dumfries Road at the site of the Red House. The Carolina Road developed from the Iroquois ...

Battle of Parker's Crossroads

Tour Stop 7

Old Split-Rail Fence

December 31, 1862

At approximately 11:00 a.m., Colonel Dunham's Brigade positioned themselves behind a split-rail fence located a few feet behind this area running east and west to the Lexington/Huntingdon Road. By afternoon, and under fire at ...

The Battle of Parker's Crossroads

Tour Stop 3

The Old Crossroads

Mid-Morning, December 31, 1862

Dunham's Union troops, pressured on three sides, rallied around the crossroads near the Parker House but soon retreated beyond the roads and sought cover among the rolling hills to the southeast.

Forrest's main force ...

Bailey’s Crossroads

In 1837 Hachaliah Bailey (1774-1845) from Westchester County, New York, purchased 526 acres in the northeast quadrant formed by the intersection of Leesburg and Columbia Pikes. Here he built his home, known as "Moray," which was destroyed by fire in ...

Carriage Roads

Moses H. Cone Memorial Park Carriage Roads and Trails

Flat Top Manor, once the home of textile magnate Moses H. Cone and his family, presides over the former Cone Estate-- 3,600 acres of forests, meadows and rolling farmlands.

Moses Cone, whose hobbies ...

Stalemate in Hampton Roads

In a “big glass case”

After the March 8-9, 1862, Battle of Hampton Roads, CSS Virginia went into drydock for refitting. USS Monitor guarded Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s transport vessels in the York River near Fort Monroe, and the Federals ...

John Wilkie Safety Roadside Rest Area At Fenner

As Caltrans Highway Superintendent for the Needles area, John Wilkie sought ways to improve maintenance at this Rest Area. Pursuing this goal, John became a statewide leader in increasing employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.

John's passionate belief in the abilities ...

First Roads to the West

Before the Europeans, only Indian trails led through virgin forests that once stretched beyond the horizon. About 1750 Nemacolin, a Delaware Indian, blazed a trail past here for the Ohio Company. Four years later, Virginia militia under Lt. Col. George ...

Railroads

The CSX Railroad runs trains on

the east coast from Maine to

Florida & west to Chicago. It leases

its tracks on the other side of the

river to Amtrak for nationwide

passenger service, as well as to

Metro-North for commuters between

Albany & NYC. You can ...