Charles B. Aycock

Governor of North Carolina, 1901-1905. Crusader for universal education. His law office is 2 blocks S.W.

Marker is at the intersection of East Ash Street (U.S. 70) and North William Street, on the right when traveling east on East Ash ...

John Fitch's Steamboat

Fitch tested near here a model steamboat in 1785. Before his death in 1798, he built 4 mechanically successful steamboats. The first in the U.S., they proved financial failures, leaving final success of the idea to Robert Fulton.

Adjacent, stone ...

Dobbs County Court House

Three miles south of this spot on Walnut Creek is a marker indicating the exact site of Dobbs County Court House 1756-1791.

Marker is at the intersection of South Beston Road and U.S. 70, on the right when traveling south ...

Glencoe - The Mill Buildings

Mill Design

Mill designers planned the brick and heavy timber mill to standards of the day. They employed the Italianate style popular for industrial architecture. Its ornate brickwork, arched windows, low roof, and prominate tower suited the functional needs of textile ...

Concord Baptist Church

Site of

Concord-Baptist-Church

1855 — 1948

Marker is at the intersection of River Road (South Carolina Route 3) and Concord Church Road (South Carolina Road 3-53), on the right when traveling north on River Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Burritt Hotel

Burritt Hotel

Built 1924

Placed On The

National Register

Of Historic Places

July 28, 1983

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street and Washington Street, on the left when traveling east on West Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bucks County

One of Pennsylvania's three original counties. Formed 1682 by William Penn and site of his home, Pennsbury Manor. Name is derived from abbreviation for Buckinghamshire in England. Doylestown, chosen as county seat in 1812, was incorporated 1838.

Marker is on ...

Gold Mining and Michigan Bar

(left panel)

Michigan Bar

Gold was discovered on the Cosumnes River in 1849 by two men from Michigan in the vicinity of the historic Nisenan settlement of Palamul. In the 1850s the town of Michigan Bar was the largest in ...

Battery K, Fifth U.S. Artillery

Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps

Battery K Fifth U.S. Artillery

Four 12 Pounders

Lieut. David H. Kinzie Commanding

July 1 Marched to within a mile and half of Gettysburg.

July 2 At daylight took position to command a gap between the First and Twelfth ...

William Black

Just northeast stood the home of William Black, the founder of Blacksburg. In 1797, he laid out a 16-block grid and petitioned the Virginia General Assembly to incorporate a town here; the legislature approved his petition on 13 January 1798. ...