Four Powered Flights

The Wright brothers made four successful sustained powered flights the morning of December 17, 1903. The commemorative granite boulder and replica monorail mark the lift-off point of those four flights, the numbered markers the terminating point.

Since soft sand prohibited launching ...

Pitch, Roll and Yaw

At the turn of the century, this large hill and the three hills surrounding it were known as the Kill Devil Hills. Wilbur and Orville Wright performed thousands of experimental glider flights here between 1900 and 1903. The culminatino of ...

The Minuteman of Concord 1775

By the Rude Bridge that

arched the flood,

their flag to April’s

breeze unfurled,

here once the embattled

farmers stood,

and fired the shot heard

round the world.

Back of Monument:

1775

Ninteenth

of

April

-----

1875

Marker is on Monument Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sugar Town

Ovid experienced a tremendous boom in 1925 when the Great Western Sugar Company built a sugar beet processing plant here. The plant closed in 1985 after the owners went bankrupt speculating on the silver market.The "dinkey," a steam-powered locomotive, shuttled ...

Historic Ground

This modern tv station, WAGA-TV stands in land lot 57 of the 18th District of the original Henry, now DeKalb County, near the south fork of Peachtree Creek, was erected in 1966.

In July, 1864 the present Briarcliff Road was the ...

Early Campsites and River Crossings

Native American hunters on the trail of bison and other game found a favorite river crossing and campsite here where the South Platte River and Lodgepole Creek come together. After burning the first Julesburg in 1865, Indian raiders camped here ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

In 1775 during the travels of botanist William Bartram he first discovered golden St. John’s wort (his Hypericum aureum) near this site on Patsiliga Creek

Marker is at the intersection of Georgia Route 137 and Fickling Mill Road, on the ...

John Vanderpoel Home   c.1825

Dr. John, 1796 – 1851

First Valatie Postmaster   1832

Friend, ally and physician

of President Van Buren

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Merwin Lane, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Covered Bridges

Lowell was the site of one of ten wooden covered bridges, built from 1820 to 1887, that crossed the Muskingum River from Marietta to Coshocton. The Lowell bridge was built in 1881. Bridges were built out of wood because there ...

Prisoners on the Plains / Ride 'Em Cowboy

Prisoners on the Plains

During World War II, a seasonal Prisoner of War Camp was located in Ovid. Nearly 400 German prisoners worked in nearby potato and sugar beet fields. Housing was provided in 40 tents and two large downtown buildings.Ride ...