This Building of

Of Native Limestone Erected in 1796

Is the oldest courthouse now in use

west of the blue ridge.

A few rods southeast from here

stood the church

in which Peter Muhlenburg preached

his martial sermon and made his famous

call to arms in 1776.

Thomas Marshall Sr. and ...

Fort Clendenin

1788

[Front]

Saved by two historic rides for powder. Ann Bailey on horseback through wilderness to Lewisburg and return. Fleming Cobbs poled down Kanawha River to Point Pleasant and return.

[Rear]

This boulder is established to commemorate Clendennin's Fort which ...

Fort Venango

To assert control over the area, Fort Venango was built near this point by the British in 1760. The fort was attacked and destroyed by Indians in 1763 during Pontiac's uprising.

Marker is at the intersection of 8th Street (U.S. 322) ...

Camp of 9th Illinois Infantry

McArthur's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Camp of

9th Illinois Infantry,

McArthur's (2d) Brig., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

First position in line of battle April 6, 1862, was 1 1/4 miles south, with right on Hamburg Road.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Lt. Gerald Stull USAF

"On May 5, 1958, Lt. Gerald Stull USAF was returning to Truax Field from a training mission when his F-102A fighter jet faltered and headed toward the residential neighborhood along Hudson Park. Lt. Stull forced the jet back toward the ...

Battle of McDowell

May 8, 1862, one mile southeast, Jackson and Edward Johnson, C.S.A. defeated Nilroy and Schenck, U.S.A.

This church served both Blue and Gray as a hospital.

Marker is on U.S. 250, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

A Race for the Grasshopper

Near the end of the battle, as the Americans swept forward, two Continental officers sought to capture the enemy's light 3-pounder "grasshopper" cannons. Captain Anderson of Maryland won the race when he used his spontoon to vault forward onto one ...

Fort Machault

Built by the French in 1756 to guard the route to the Ohio; it was evacuated and burned by them after the siege and fall of Fort Niagara in 1759. Site of fort is one block south.

Marker is at the ...

Site of Sunny Acres

ca. early 1930's

Built by Miss Anna Ogburn of Winston-Salem, a Methodist philanthropist and benefactor. The large 200-foot long house was originally used as a country retreat for underprivileged children and as a Methodist Church conference center. Later Sunny Acres was ...

The Duke of Cahaba

In 1889, Samuel and Sarah Kirkpatrick moved to Selma, leaving their farm and house in the capable hands of their son Clifton (1863-1930). He turned the abandoned remains of Alabama's first capital into a showcase farm of diversified, scientific agriculture, ...