The Bushong Farm

Caught in the Crossfire

On June 22, 1791, Henry Bushong patented a 260-acre tract in Shenandoah County that would be home for several generations of his descendants. Henry’s son, Jacob married Sarah Strickler in 1818. They took up residence in a ...

Battle of the Severn

On March 25, 1655, colonial Governor William Stone landed Maryland militia at the Puritan settlement of Providence, located at the mouth of the Severn River. He planned to subdue the settlers who had asserted their independence from the government in ...

Pisgah Covered Bridge

1911

Randolph County

Historic Landmark

Pisgah Covered Bridge

1911

Designated March 1, 2010

Randolph County Bard of Commissioners

Historic Landmark Preservation Commission

Marker is on Pisgah Covered Bridge Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Revolutionary War Invasion of British East Florida

In May 1777, Colonel Samuel Elbert's Continentals landed on the North End of Amelia Island at Oldtown Bluff, approximately one mile north of Florida. A patrol engaged in a skirmish with British troops on the south end of the island. ...

Westernmost Naval Battle of the Revolution

On 25 February 1779 Col. George Rogers Clark captured Ft. Sackville at Vincennes from the British. About 6 miles west at Pointe Coupee on the Wabash River on 2 March 1779 Capt. Leonard Helm commanding 3 boats and 50 volunteers ...

The Bunker Hill School

Throughout America, the one-room schoolhouse was a fixture and the educational mainstay for many years.

This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1908 to serve the community of Bunker Hill, which is located in the northeast corner of Manatee County. The school ...

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Virginia and other southern states began to legislate social segregation, along racial lines. Additional laws that imposed poll taxes and literacy tests established hurdles to voting along economic lines. Between 1900 and 1902, ...

Minnie F. Corbitt Memorial Museum

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Here, about 1873, on Lot No. 1, S.J. Henderson built the first residence in Pearson, then the terminus of the Brunswick and Albany R. R. Successively the home of prominent families in early Pearson history, in 1905 it became ...

Barnet's Tavern

Near this spot stood Barnet's Tavern, called the Forty Five Mile House, indicating its distance from Charleston. Here was the muster ground of the Eutaw State Volunteers, a company raised in 1833, to support the Ordinance of Nullification. From this ...

Milburn-Gary House

Anglo settlement of the Gum Springs area in Smith County was underway when the community name changed to Starrville in 1852, in honor of pioneer Russel Julius Starr. Located on the Dallas-Shreveport Freight Route, Starrville included a post office, school, ...