Union of Brother and Sisters of Ford’s Asbury Lodge No. 1

Built for the African American Community in 1874 as a school for children in the Loreley area and as home to this “benevolent” society, founded in 1872. Beginning in the late 18th century, such mutual aid societies, often formed by ...

Port Swannsborough

Named for Samuel Swann. Town incorporated in 1783. Port, including area from New River to Bogue Inlet, established in 1786.

Marker is at the intersection of West Corbett Avenue (State Highway 24) and Front Street, on the right when traveling east ...

New Britain Soldiers' Monument

[ south side ]

With Malice Toward

None With Charity

For All With Firm

Ness In The Right

Lincoln

Oh Rare And Royal

Was The Sacrifice

[ east side ]

Let Us Have Peace

Grant

For You And Me They

Put Their Armor On

This Monument Is Built In

Grateful Remembrance Of

The Soldiers ...

Robert E. Lee

Dixie Highway

In loving memory of

Robert E. Lee

and to mark the route of the

Dixie Highway

“The shaft memorial and highway straight

attest his worth — he cometh to his own.”

— Littlefield —

Marker is on Hendersonville Road (U.S. 25), on the right ...

Warren's Carnegie Library

Side A

A Warren Public Library Board was organized in June 1916 after a public fundraising campaign to buy books and periodicals. In 1917, a grant of $10,000 from the Carnegie Corporation was confirmed to support construction of a free public ...

The Stroubles Creek Watershed and the Duck Pond

Learn about your watershed

A watershed or drainage basin, is the area of land where all the water that drains off it runs to a specific point on a watercourse, usually a confluence of stream or river.

The Stroubles Creek watershed is ...

Blackford County Courthouse

Blackford County's second courthouse, featuring a 165 foot high clock tower, was built on foundation stones from nearby Montpelier quarries. At a cost of $129,337.83, this Richardsonian Romanesque structure was constructed 1893-1895. Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1980.

Marker ...

Mortar Battery

Four mortars occupied a single pit. With twelve other mortars in nearby pits, they were designed to fire simultaneously, lobbing 12-inch, 800-pound shells in high arcs, to penetrate ships’ lightly-armored decks. Built in the early 1890’s, this was the first ...

Mt. Paran Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Mt. Paran Church was incorporated September 18, 1841. The chruch was called Soldier’s Delight prior to 1841 and that congregation began circa 1776. The oldest legible tombstone is that of Robert Gilchrist, dated October 17, 1767. The oldest known deed ...

Thomas Barksdale Hutcheson

(1882-1950)

Head, Department of Agronomy 1914-1945

Dean, School of Agriculture 1946-1950

Thomas Barksdale Hutcheson lived in the dairy barn at

Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and

Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech), working his way

through college by milking cows. Widely known later

for his agricultural research and writing, ...