Mine Hill Preserve

A place of Natural, Geologic and Industrial Heritage

Recognized on the National Register of Historic Places, Mine Hill is the site of a 19th century iron mine and furnace complex. The Roxbury Land Trust acquired the 360-acre preserve in 1978. The ...

Fisher’s Hill and Yager’s Mill

“We would have captured the entire rebel army.”

In September 1864, Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan detached two cavalry divisions under Gen. Alfred T. A. Torbert to move into the Page Valley. While the bulk of Sheridan’s army would strike Gen. ...

Down by the Old Mill Stream

Golden had a variety of businesses and industries in operation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among these were four flour mills-the Rock Mill, the Brick Mill, the Binder Mill, and the Golden Mill. Mill races, or ditches ...

Stop 7 Fort McDermott:

"The Men Dig,Dig,Dig"

Late on March 26, C.S. General St. John Liddell withdrew into the relative safety of Fort Blakeley and Spanish Fort, Liddell, assisted by General Francis Cockrell, assumed personal responsibility for the defense of Blakeley and put the defense ...

Tannery

Sparrowbush Tannery

Built in 1850

by Maurice M. Schultz.

Burned and rebuilt in 1867.

Closed in 1932.

Marker is on New York Route 97, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Early History of Clear Creek

For thousands of years native peoples have lived, hunted, and battled along this creek. The earliest western nation to claim the creek was France when it created the New World Province called Louisiana in 1682. In 1765 the French ceded ...

Site of Middle Fort

Site Of

Middle Fort

Fortified Aug. 13, 1777

To Protect Inhabitants

During Invasion of

Brant and Johnson

Marker is on River Street (New York Route 30), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Execution of Mosby’s Rangers

“The ‘dark day’ of 1864”

"Mosby will hang ten of you for every one of us!"

were William Thomas Overby’s last words to his

executioners before the rope tightened around his

neck here on Richardson’s Hill. This was the

final scene of a tragedy that ...

Indiana County

Formed March 30, 1803 from Westmoreland and Lycoming counties, and once densely forested. Its name memorializes the first inhabitants. County seat, Indiana, was laid out 1805 on land given by George Clymer, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Marker is on ...

Fort Sumter 1861-65

On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter and the Civil War began. The Federal garrison surrendered the next day and evacuated on the 14th, leaving the fort in Confederate hands. Throughout the Civil War Fort Sumter was the ...