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Cavalry Clash

Second Battle of Manassas

As fighting stalled along Sudley Road, Union and Confederate cavalry partook in the final drama of the battle here on the grounds of Portici. Southern horsemen attempted to dash behind the Union army and cut their escape ...

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Hotel Paso Del Norte

This brick and terra cotta structure was the "dream hotel" of early El Paso businessman and promoter Zach White. White came to the town in 1881 and recognized El Paso's great potential as a gateway to Mexico. He worked hard ...

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Terryville Soldiers Memorial

[ inscribed on the west side of the granite obelisk ]

Soldiers

[ north plaque ]

Capt. Edward H. Mix Co. B 16th C.V. Drowned in Albemarle Sound March 7, 1864, Aged 25

Capt. Edwin Post Co. B U.S.C.T. Killed at Deep Bottom Aug. ...

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Old City Cemetery

[Front]:

This cemetery, established on this site about 1900 as the Spartanburg Colored Cemetery, includes many graves moved here from the first black cemetery in the city, established in 1849 1 mi. W. and closed by the expansion of the Charleston ...

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Guernsey County Vietnam Memorial

In memory of persons from Guernsey County, Ohio, who gave their lives in Southeast Asia during the period of the Vietnam Conflict.

Robert A. Ausmus

Clifford E. Bench

James S. Brister

Donald E. Chambers

James Davis

David Lee Doyle

Carle R. Harbin, Jr.

Dale R. Hood

Jerry Lee Hurley

Joseph ...

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George R. Tingle

1775 - 1830

Built the first tavern in Cambridge proper which acted as Guernsey County's first courthouse prior to 1813.

Marker is on Bloomfield Road (Ohio Route 209) near Turner Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Confederate Headquarters

Portici

Fought in civilian's fields and front yards, the battle had a terrible intimacy. At this site stood the Lewis home, "Portici" (Por-TEE-cee) - a large plantation. Most Confederate regiments passed through the Lewis property during the twelve hours of First ...

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Robert T. Secrest

Congressman and Senator

50 years of public service to our great country and all its citizens.

This tribute is presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliaries of District Five of Ohio, August 5, 1978

Marker is on Wheeling Street (U.S. ...

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Burke School

The community of Burke was established along the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad in 1882. S.J. and Nancy Arrington conveyed one acre of land adjoining the town on which to establish a public school. The first building, a one-room ...

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Poor Farm

Site of the "Poor Farm" which operated until the late 1930's. Indigent men resided here and received room and board in exchange for working on the surrounding land.

Records beginning around 1838 indicate that the poor were managed by overseers ...

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