The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind

Founded 1839

A state residential school created by an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia on March 31, 1838 for the purpose of educating the deaf and the blind children of the state.

Marker is on Commerce Road ...

Fort Scott Spanish American War Memorial

In memory of

Spanish American War Veterans

1898 -- 1902

One hundred percent volunteers

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Iowa’s Confederate General

General Lawrence Sullivan ‘Sul’ Ross, CSA, was born in Bentonsport, Iowa, Van Buren County on September 27, 1838. His family moved to Texas in 1839, where he grew to manhood.

In 1859, Sul Ross was commissioned a Captain in the ...

Fort Gaddis

Built by Thomas Gaddis about 1764 on the Catawba trail, as a place of refuge from the Indians. Gaddis was later a colonel in the Pennsylvania Continental Line during the Revolution.

Marker is on Morgantown Road 0.1 miles north of Georges ...

Battery Krayenbuhl’s 5-inch rapid fire guns

The 5-inch gun platforms, finished in the summer of 1899, had to be changed to conform to changes in the type of gun mount to be installed. The platforms had to be cut down approximately one foot, and the new ...

Federal Hill

Building the Fort

On the evening of May 13, 1861, U.S. General Benjamin E. Butler’s troops occupied Federal Hill and brought their guns to bear on Baltimore. For the next four years the hill, garrisoned by 10 different regiments, served as ...

Defending Charleston 1861-1865

The 1st South Carolina Artillery Battalion occupied Fort Moultrie for the Confederacy in December, 1860. Fire from Fort Moultrie's guns helped force the surrender of Fort Sumter in April, 1861.

Rifled artillery appeared shortly before the Civil War and changed ...

Ewell’s Line of Defense

The Confederates Dig In

On Thursday, April 6, 1865, this high ground above Little Sailor’s Creek was protected by troops from the Richmond fortifications under Confederate General Richard S. Ewell. They hurriedly threw up a line of breastworks consisting of fence ...

Rutherford Trace

The expedition led by

Gen. Griffith Rutherford

against the Cherokee,

Sept, 1776, passed here,

through Balsam Gap.

Marker is on Great Smokey Mountain Expressway (U.S. 74), on the left when traveling west.

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Rutherford Trace

The expedition led by

Gen. Griffith Rutherford

against the Cherokee,

Sept. 1776, passed here,

through Pigeon Gap.

Marker is on Pigeon Road (U.S. 276), on the left when traveling west.

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