Athletic Field

Palmer students always enjoyed baseball. Team photographs appeared in school bulletins as early as 1916. The field’s original orientation placed home plate and a wooden backstop at the corner of Palmer Farm Road and the highway.

In 1997, Whitsett resident Boyd ...

Site of the First Office of The Union Democrat

Established in July, 1854, the pioneer newspaper was published at this location continuously until 1954. First publisher was Albert N. Francisco followed by a colorful group of editors that included Prentice Milford, John and Ferdinand Van Harlingen, Judge C.H. Randall ...

First Dental College

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, first dental college in the world chartered by the General Assembly of Maryland March 6, 1840. Founders were Horace H. Hayden, M.D., D.D.S. and Chap A. Harris M.D., D.D.S. The Assembly stipulated by Act of ...

Birthplace of General Maxcy Gregg

Maxcy Gregg, Confederate General and leader

in Southern Rights Movement, was born Aug. 1,

1815 in a house on this site. Member of committee

which framed the ordinance of secession, Dec. 1860;

Colonel 1st Regiment South Carolina Volunteers;

Brigadier General in 1861. ...

Francis Hume

Capt

Continental

Line

Indian Wars

Rev War

1730

1813

Marker is on Remington Road (Business U.S. 15/29) south of Rappahannock River Bridge, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of the Corinth House Hotel

The Corinth House stood in the distance, facing the historic railroad crossing and the Tishomingo Hotel. This photograph shows it after the Union Army occupied Corinth.

In the exciting months before Corinth fell to the Union Army in 1862, townsfolk ...

George Washington’s Coffee Bean Tree

This Coffee Bean Tree a Scion

of a Tree planted at Mount Vernon by

George Washington

A Tree which he raised from

Seed Brought Back by Him from the

Ohio Valley in 1784

Replanted Here – 1954

Marker can be ...

First Boy Scout Armory

On this site, May 20, 1911, Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts of America, laid the cornerstone of the first Boy Scout Armory in the United States, and 30 acres of land were presented to the Mount Washington ...

African American Civil War Memorial

"Spirit of Freedom"

This memorial is dedicated to those who served in the African American units of the Union Army in the Civil War. The 209,145 names inscribed on these walls commemorate those fighters of freedom.

[Names of the officers ...

Riverside Plantation: Mannsfield

The Battle of Fredericksburg

In 1862, the patterns of forest and field in this area reflected historic uses of local farmers. The woods around you were in fact a working part of the Mannsfield Plantation, owned by Arthur Bernard. They provided ...