Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road

A “Timbered Turnpike”

The Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road, built between 1851 and 1853, was the first all-weather route connecting Southside Virginia’s tobacco and wheat farms with the market. Pine and oak planks, 8 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 3-4 ...

Booth House

This house was built about 1880 for Crawford Henry Booth (1843–1937), a prominent local rancher and banker. An unusual local example of the L-plan vernacular form, the house features many Queen Anne details, including an octagonal turret with onion dome ...

Wm. Cyrus Briggs

1861-1918

Invented in 1898 one of the first successful automatic cigarette machines. Workshop was 3 blocks east.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and First Street, on the left on South Main Street.

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British Embarkation

On July 5, 1778 armies under General Sir Henry Clinton passed this point to reach British ships, at anchor off Horseshoe Cove, which evacuated them to New York. This completed their withdrawal through Middletown from Freehold after the Battle ...

N.C. Federation of Women's Clubs

Volunteer service group promoted suffrage, education, and other social, cultural causes. Founded 1902 one-half mi. SE.

Marker is at the intersection of Sout Main Street and Cemetery Street, on the right on Sout Main Street.

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Clark and Gruber Mint

1860

In the 1860’s, when gold from Colorado’s grubstakes began flowing into Denver at a mad pace, the costly and risky problem of shipping it to banks back East was neatly solved by Clark, Gruber and Co. In a building near ...

The Liberty Tree

Near this spot once stood the Liberty Tree where Colonial Independence was first advocated by Christopher Gadsden A.D. 1766 and where ten years later the Declaration of Independence was first heard and applauded by South Carolinians

Marker is on Alexander Street ...

The Big Spring

Our Anchor in Time

“For generations this great spring was the main source of water supply for the town. Before the white man settled around it the Indians and the buffaloes knew it well. It was at the crossing of two ...

Two Batteries in one

Battery Harker and Battery Arnold share the continuous 750 foot long parapet wall. Battery Harker (right) contains three 10-inch gun emplacements and Battery Arnold (left) has three 12-inch gun emplacements.

A protective earthwork, the parados, was built behind the gun emplacements ...

The Buckhorn Exchange

Established 1893

In November 1893, Henry H. “Shorty Scout” Zietz opened a saloon in this building, which was built about 1886 by Neef Brothers Brewery. Known as the Rio Grande Exchange, the saloon catered to the railroaders working across Osage Street ...