Newfane Civil War Monument

(Front): In Memory of

The Men of Newfane

Who Served Their

Country

In the Civil War

1861 – 1865

“On fames eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread, and glory guards, with solemn round, ...

38th Tennessee Infantry

Pond's Brigade - Ruggles' Division - Bragg's Corps

C.S.

38th Tennessee Infantry,

Pond's (3d) Brig., Ruggles' (1st) Div., Bragg's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This Regiment came into position here about 5.30 p.m. April 6, 1862 and assisted in capture of 12th Iowa, Colonel Looney ...

Newfane World War II Monument

Honor Roll

World War II

Armstrong, David • Atwater, Roy • Beck, Walter P. • Bills, Lyman S. • Bingham, Robert • Brayman, Floyd • Brayman, Ralph • Brooks, Alfred • Brooks, Arthur W., Jr. • Brooks, Robert ...

Woodland Ferry

By the 1740s a ferry service was being regularly operated at this location by James Cannon. He was succeeded by his son Jacob, who constructeda much-needed causeway on this side of the river for the improvement of the business. Threatened ...

Voyager Aircraft / SpaceShipOne Replica

Left Plaque:

The 1/5 scale flying model of Voyager was built by Glenn Dunlap of Cincinnati, Ohio, and donated to the Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation in 2009.

The original Voyager, designed by Burt Rutan and built at Mojave Airport, hangs in the ...

In Memory of Jonathan Park

In Memory of

Jonathan Park

Original Settler of Newfane

Who Gave to the People of

Windham County the Common

And All the Land

On Which Now Stand

The County Buildings

Erected ...

First County Seat

Between 1765 and 1770 a group of settlers, mostly from North Carolina, settled and received grants for land in the vicinity of what is now Rockyford.

Among these first settlers were, Benjamin Lanier, Lemuel Lanier, Valentine Hollingsworth, Francis Jones, Thomas Mills, ...

The Battle of Brandy Station

The Struggle for Fleetwood Hill

After Col. Wyndham's assaults, Col. Judson Kilpatrick's Federal brigade crossed the Orange and Alexandria Railroad and stormed Fleetwood Hill from the southeast. The fight for Fleetwood Hill - a classic cavalry battle fought on horseback - ...

The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

Near site of The First Capitol of the Republic of Texas

About 1833 Leman Kelsy built a story-and-a-half clapboard structure near this location. When Columbia became capital of the Republic of Texas in 1836, the building was one of ...

Homesite of Joseph Emerson Brown

Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), born in Pickens District, South Carolina, moved to Union County, Georgia, as a boy. The old Brown home was on the present site of the Woody Gap School, opened in 1941 for mountain students. Brown worked ...