Graham Road

Upon this site, on June 9, 1864, Captain Edward Graham, commanding two guns of the Petersburg Artillery, repulsed the attack of Kautz's cavalry, 1300 men. And by this gallant defense the city was saved. Later the Union forces were driven ...

Blenheim Bridge

Longest single span wooden

bridge in world. Built by

Blenheim Bridge Company,

Incorporated 1828. Last of

its kind in this region.

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 30 and Eastside Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 30.

Courtesy ...

Henry Hudson

Landed here Sept. 19, 1609

and was entertained by

Indians who encamped here

called Kinderhook.

Marker is on New York Route 9J, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Naruna Cemetery

William M. Spitler became Naruna’s first postmaster in 1878, and he named the town after the riverboat that carried him to Texas from Tennessee. At that time, Naruna was an agricultural community with store, school, churches, fraternal lodges and this ...

Graham Road

Upon this site, on June 9, 1864, Captain Edward Graham, commanding two guns of the Petersburg Artillery, repulsed the attack of Kautz's cavalry, 1300 men. And by this gallant defense the city was saved. Later the Union forces were driven ...

Naruna Baptist Church

Naruna Baptist Church Settlers came to the Naruna area as early as the 1840s, and the town was named by its first postmaster, William M. Spitler, who came to Texas on the riverboat Naruna. Residents formed Providence Baptist Church in ...

Granite Settlement

In the 1860's, a town named Granite was located at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon by ore miners of Alta, Silverton, and Tannersville. Its desertion began as the mines closed about 1882. the surrounding country had been settled by ...

Resting Place of Seven Signers of the Declaration of Independenc

In the Burial Ground of this Church

rest the remains of Seven Signers of the

Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin             Benjamin Rush MD

Obit 1796                     ...

Formation of the Southern Methodist Church

One block west stood the Union Street Methodist Church, completed in 1820. There was held the first general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, May 1-23, 1846. At this meeting the Southern Methodist Church, which had separated from the ...

St. Paul's Church

St. Paul's Church was built in 1856. Here Robert E. Lee and his staff worshipped during the siege of Petersburg, 1864-65. Lee attended the wedding of his son, W.H.F. Lee, in this church in 1867.

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