Salisbury Plain

This land was the eastern most boundary of a 3,111 acre grant, known as Salisbury Plain, acquired by Henry Lee from Thomas 6th Lord Fairfax in 1725 when it was part of the Stafford County frontier. This area became Prince ...

Liberty Hill Cemetery

Weathered gravestones show usage of this spot for burials since 1852, when the earliest settlers were establishing homes in area. The first formal grant of land here as a community burial ground was made by John T. and Amelia Edwards ...

Mount Bethel Academy

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Located about one mile northeast on land conveyed by Edward Finch, this school, the first Methodist educational venture in the state, was established by Bishop Francis Asbury and opened by him, 1795. A number of Mt. Bethel students became the ...

Lesesne-Stone Building (The KGTN Building)

This limestone commercial structure was built in 1884 to house the Sanders & Lesesne Drugstore. It remained in use as a pharmacy for the next 76 years. William D. Nichols operated the drugstore from 1887 until 1892. In that year, ...

Bordeaux Trading Post

From about 1846 until 1872, an Indian "trading house" occupied a site near here. Built by James Bordeaux, the trading station was once attacked and set afire by hostile Crow warriors. Fortunately, some friendly Sioux Indians came to the rescue ...

Hoover Historic Site / Hoover’s West Branch

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The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, located in nearby West Branch, honors a distinguished son of Iowa, citizen of the world, and the 31st president of the United States. Established in 1965, the Site’s foundations were laid earlier when ...

"Huckleberry"

Home of Confederate Mail Agent, Thomas A. Jones, who helped to shelter, and aided the escape of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their flight, April 16th to 21st 1865.

Marker is on Popes Creek Road 1 mile south of ...

The Buffalo Trace

Crossed White River at a nearby ford. It was made by migrating buffalo herds. The trace ran from Vincennes to Louisville and was the only through trail in pioneer days.

Marker is on Indiana Route 61 north of Riverwood Drive, on ...

Daniel Boone's Parents

Squire and Sarah Boone are buried here. Daniel Boone, 1734-1820, lived many years in this region.

Marker is on Yadkinville Road (U.S. 601), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Maryland Regiment Burial Site

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

The vicinity of 3rd Avenue and 9th Street is the presumed location of the burial site of the more than 250 soldiers of the Colonel Smallwood Regiment from Maryland. Nearby, in the swamps of Gowanus, during the ...