Forks of Wheeling Creek

George Washington described the land here in 1770. The French expedition headed by Capt. Celeron buried leaden plates at the mouth in 1749 and claimed the land for France. De Bonnescamp’s map gives creek name–Kanonouaras.

Marker is on Wheeling and Elm ...

Monument Place

On site of Fort Shepherd is this mansion, built in 1798 by Moses Shepherd and known as Shepherd Hall. Among its guests were Lafayette, James K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay. Clay's support brought National Pike here.

Marker is at ...

Fippin's Blacksmith Shop

Built in the mid 1850’s by John Fippin and John Single. Fippin married Single’s daughter, Julia, in 1867, and they raised 10 children. Local legend has it that one of Lotta Crabtree’s earliest performances was atop the anvil here. The ...

La Carpinteria (1769)

The Chumash Indian Village of "Mishopshnow," discovered by Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, August 14, 1542, was located one-fourth of mile southwest of here. Fray Juan Crespi of the Gaspar de Portola expedition named it "San Roque," August 17, 1769. Portola's soldiers, ...

Stewart-Lee House

Built in 1844 for Norman Stewart, a Scottish tobacco merchant, the house was rented from his nephew, John Stewart, by Gen. Robert E. Lee's family during the Civil War. Following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, he lived here for just over ...

La Carpinteria (1769)

The Chumash Indian Village of "Mishopshnow," discovered by Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, August 14, 1542, was located one-fourth of mile southwest of here. Fray Juan Crespi of the Gaspar de Portola expedition named it "San Roque," August 17, 1769. Portola's soldiers, ...

Triladelphia

Named for three friends. Near this spot, on Middle Wheeling Creek, Jonathan Link built a blockhouse in 1780. Next year a band of 20 Indians killed Link and two companions and captured and tomahawked Presley Peak and William Hawkins.

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Williamsburg Confederate Monument

1861 – 1865

To the Confederate Soldiers and

Sailors of Williamsburg

and James City County.

Right of Monument:“Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,

lest we forget – lest we forget!”

Left of Monument:Erected by the Daughters

of the Confederacy and the

Citizens of Williamsburg ...

Cole’s Fort

Built 1755, in French and

Indian War, by New Jersey

which claimed this area.

Home of Wilhelmus Cole

settled here about 1730.

Marker is at the intersection of E Main Street and Jersey Avenue, on the right when traveling south on E Main Street.

Courtesy ...

Palymra

Palmyra, Georgia “ghost town,” was incorporated in 1840 with John Woolbright, John Mercer, Burch M. Roberts, Edward Janes, George S. Oglesby as Commissioners. Among the prominent residents were: Doctors Jeremiah Hilsman, Leonidas Mercer, John B. Gilbert; Hon. Lott Warren, Congressman ...