The Little Fork Rangers Monument

1861.

Affectionately dedicated to

The Little Fork Rangers

{Co. D, 4. Va. Cavalry.}

For heroic deeds, and

Patriotic devotion.

1865.

Firm as the firmest where duty led,

They hurried without falter;

Bold as the boldest they fought and bled,

The battled wore on, but the fields were red,

And the ...

Smith’s Fort Plantation

Captain John Smith began Smith’s Fort in 1609, two years after the first permanent English colony in the New World was established at Jamestown. The remains of the fort, a two-foot-high earthwork, constitute the oldest extant structure of English origin ...

William Frazier

First White Child born in Bedford County

Grave Marker

William Fraser

PVT Continental Line

Revolutionary War

1759 - 1844

Marker is on Allegheny Road (County Route 31) ½ mile west of Shawnee Road (County Route 96), on the right when traveling west.

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First Cambria A.M.E. Zion Church

Formed 1873 in the loft of the Woodvale Tannery by workers there. Organized as Cambria Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 1874, at Napoleon and Dibert Sts. About 1877 it moved here. Washed from its foundation in the 1889 flood but later ...

Fort Phil Kearny

Registered National Historic Landmark

The Land

The land under view where the Great Plains meets the Rocky Mountains was once the Red Man's land of milk and honey, then as now teaming with wildlife. It was a most productive--thus favorite--hunting ground. But ...

Despair of Slavery

Richmond Slave Trail

“I had noticed the bad condition of this gang several times on the road, the poor wretches being travel-worn and half starved, and having large sores caused by their loads and the blows and cuts they received. The ...

Pinarea / Quattlebaum Sawmill, Flour Mill, and Rifle Factory

Pinarea

Pinarea, the plantation owned by soldier, statesman, and manufacturer Paul Quattlebaum (1812-1890), was a mile E. Quattlebaum was a captain in the Seminole War and a brig. gen, in the S.C. militia by 1843. He was a state representative 1840-43, ...

48th Fighter Squadron

14th Fighter Group

In honor of the Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" and the men who, by flying and supporting, made it possible for this aircraft to have one of the most outstanding records of any fighter-interceptor class aircraft during World War II.

Dedicated ...

Mechanics of Slavery

“But the circumstance which struck us most forcibly was how it was possible for such a number of human beings to exist, packed up and wedged together as tight as they could cram, in low cells three feet high, the ...

37th Fighter Squadron

14th Fighter Group

This plaque is dedicated as a tribute to

those who unselfishly served

1942 - 1945

Dedicated 9 Oct 1990

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