The Sandy and Beaver Canal

This waterway was completed in 1848 to connect the Ohio Canal System with the Ohio River at Glasgow. Neither financially or technically successful, the canal saw little thru traffic and was soon abandoned. Many locks remain in Little Beaver Valley.

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Ebbetts Pass

Historical Landmark

Named after Major John Ebbett and pointed out in 1853 to surveyor G.H. Goodard who referred to it as a “route of great promise – probably the best one for a transcontinental railway.”

No emigrant train used this route but ...

Burkittsville: Henry Burkitt’s Town

The first settlers in this area cleared their farm land and raised their families along two Indian trails that crossed here. Joshua Harley, one of these pioneers and a veteran of the American Revolution, started the settlement’s first dry goods ...

Lincolnton Presbyterian Church

Lincolnton Cemetery

Approved and Accepted on National Historic Register by Act 1966

Land Donated by Peter Lamar, March 3, 1823 for Religious and Educational Purposes

LINCOLNTON GARDEN CLUB

Organized by Mrs. Ruth Hogan Armstrong

1950

Restored for Perpetual Care

1974

Present Members

Mrs. Iris N. Sales President

Mrs. Edith M. ...

Brigadier General Roswell Sabin Ripley, CSA

Roswell S. Ripley was born in Worthington on March 14, 1923 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1843. Serving with the U.S. Artillery from 1846 to 1848 during the Mexican-American War, Ripley was promoted twice for “Gallant ...

The Battle of Perryville

The battle which climaxed the major Confederate invasion of Kentucky was fought on these hills west of Perryville.

A sharp clash occurred on October 7 in order to gain possession of the only water supply in the vicinity.

The opposing ...

Olivas Adobe

1837

The original small adobe on this site was built by Don Raimundo Olivas and his son, Nicolas, in 1837. The present structure was begun in 1847, with roof beams from the Santa Paula Canyon, and tiles made from native soil. ...

Old Greenwich Yacht Club

On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feaks landed on these shores in the name of the New Haven Colony to start a new settlement, later called Greenwich. This neck of land is called Elizabeth’s Neck after Mrs. Feaks.

The ...

Bagdad Copper Mine

Cypress Copper ? Bagdad Corporation

In memory of

WJ. Pace and J.M. Murphy

Who filed the Bagdad claim January 1, 1882;

John Lawler who patented the claim in

1889; and the Lincoln family who developed

the mine.

Marker is on Main Street (State Highway ...

Muhlenberg House

In this house Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, great Lutheran leader, lived from 1776 until his death in 1787. His son Peter Muhlenberg, a noted general of the American Revolution, lived here 1783-1802.

Marker is on Main Street/Ridge Pike (Old U.S. 422) 0.1 ...