Stony Batter       Birthplace of a President

Imagine stepping back in time to April 23, 1791. Packhorses and wagons were pulling into a bustling trading post owned by Scotch-Irish immigrant James Buchanan. There was probably a spring chill to the air. Perhaps the sun shone brightly overhead, ...

Grapeshot Among the Pines

"Somehow they found out we were in the woods east of town. They took two cannon up the pike to where the Toll House now stands and fired several rounds of grapeshot among the pines." John Starnes Memoir

The road passing ...

Captain George W. Stump

"Stump's Battery"

This is Hickory Grove, the home of Adam and Mary Stump and their son Capt. George W. Stump, who led a company of the 18th Virginia Cavalry during the war. Capt. Stump was always heavily armed with a carbine ...

Birthplace of James Buchanan

This monument marks the birthplace of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States

Born 23 April 1791 Died 1 June 1868

Marker is on Stony Batter Road / State Forest Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

D. L. and W. Depot

Built 1915 as a rail link: Great Lakes to the Atlantic

Listed Dec. 7, 2005 in the National Register of Historic Places.

Marker is on South Parkway just south of Main Street (U.S. 20A), on the left when traveling west.

Boyd-Parker

2 Mi. ?

Torture tree and burial mound. Western Limit Sullivan's Expedition 1779. Seneca Village Little Beard's Town

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 20A) and Mount Morris Road (New York Route 36) on Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Engagement at Great Cacapon

Struggle in the Snow

(Preface): On January 1, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson led four brigades west from Winchester, Va., to secure Romney in the fertile South Branch Valley on the North Western Turnpike. He attacked and occupied Bath ...

Campaign in the Snow

Jackson Captures Bath and Romney

The summer of 1861 had been disastrous for Confederate arms in western Virginia (present day West Virginia) and by the New Year the Virginia counties west of the Alleghenies were on the road to statehood. On ...

Camp Mud

Unger's Crossroads Bivouacs

(Preface): On January 1, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson led four brigades west from Winchester, Va., to secure Romney in the fertile South Branch Valley on the North Western Turnpike. He attacked and occupied Bath on ...

Camp Hopkins

Memorial to a Friend

In December 1862, Union Gen. Benjamin F. Kelley stationed detachments of the 54th Pennsylvania and 1st West Virginia Infantry regiments here to guard and repair the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a main supply route between the Ohio ...