Givens Hot Springs

Milford and Martha (Mattie) Shirley Givens pulled up Missouri roots and headed west in 1878, apparently bound for Portland, Oregon where relatives were settled. Their journey eventually led them along the South Alternative Route of the Oregon Trail. Reaching the ...

Henry M. Shaw

Member N.C. Assembly and U.S. Congress. Confederate colonel. Killed in attack on New Bern, Feb. 1, 1864. Home & grave about 150 feet West.

Marker is at the intersection of Shawboro Road (Route 34) and North Indiantown Road, in the median ...

Piney Grove and E. A. Saunders

Eight miles west on "The Old Main Road" is Piney Grove. The original portion, built ca. 1800 on Southall's Plantation, is a rare survival of Tidewater log architecture. Edmund Archer Saunders, a successful Richmond businessman, operated a store at Piney ...

Ballard Avenue Historic District / Ballard City Hall Bell

Multiple markers on and near the Ballard Centennial Bell identify the Ballard Avenue Historic District.

Marker 1:

Be it remembered that at this place on the eleventh day of April, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Six, the Ballard Avenue Landmark District ...

Whitaker's House

A mile north of the road is Whitaker's House, headquarters of General W. F. Smith, Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862.

Marker is on Pocahontas Trail (Virginia Route 60) 0.1 miles east of Virginia Route 199, on the right when traveling ...

Carter's Grove

During the 17th century Carter's Grove was part of the Martin's Hundred Plantation. In the early 1720's, Robert "King" Carter purchased it and later named the tract Carter's Grove. Between 1730 and 1735 Carter Burwell, grandson of Robert "King" Carter, ...

Torreya Tree

In this vicinity on the Apalachicola River, Hardy Bryan Croom, pioneer Florida planter and botanist, discovered one of the rarest of coniferous trees, Torreya taxifolia circa 1835, and named it for Dr. John Torrey, prominent American botanist. Only four other ...

Historic Viduta / Hotel Monte Sano

(Front):Historic Viduta

"Viduta"-derived from Spanish "vida" meaning "life"

In a time when yellow fever, malaria, and cholera threatened, Dr. Thomas Fearn and his brothers Robert and George were drawn by the cool air and medicinal springs to establish a small colony on ...

Birthplace of Antioch

This Plaque commemorates the arrival

of the first settlers in Antioch.

September 16, 1850

Led by Captain George W. Kimball

the party sailed from Maine aboard the

California Packet No.2 March 1850

And reached San Francisco Bay

August 24, 1850

We respect the foresight of these

pioneers who sought ...

Mural at Bergen Place

The Ballard Historical Society and the Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association joined together to create this mural in 1995 to commemorate our community’s rich and prosperous history, and to celebrate our economic and cultural ties to other nations.

The Sister City ...