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Delta Transmission Towers/Delta Cross Channel Gates

Delta Transmission Towers

The Delta area is home to four separate transmission towers which provide reception for television and radio stations serving the residents of Northern California. Three of the towers rival some of the tallest structures in the world. The ...

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Trott's Cottage

First Brick Dwelling

Located within the walled city of Colonial Charles Towne, Trott's Cottage is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary structures.

Judge Nicholas Trott (1663-1740) owned the property prior to 1709. Judge Trott, born in England, came to America ...

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Malvern Hill Trail

This one-and-a-half mile trail reveals one of the best preserved battlefields in the nation. More than a dozen signs describe the landscape, the progress of the battle, and its various landmarks. Parking lots at the crest of Malvern Hill and ...

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Sacred to the Memory Monument

Sacred to the Memory of

Major Willian Chronicle, Captain John Mattocks

William Rabb and John Boyd

Who Were killed at this place on the 7th.

of October 1780. Fighting in Defense of America.

Colonel Ferguson an office of his Britannic

Majesty, was defeated and killed at

this ...

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Wayside & Granville

Charles City County, Virginia

Wayside was settled after 1613 as part of West and Sherley Hundred. Landmarks have included St. John's Church, established in 1897 by the Rev. John Jones, a post office at Shirley and the Shirley Mill. In ...

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Montreal Point in 1782

The Huron First Nation's gift to the Roman Catholic Church

In the year 1782 the Huron First Nation gave Montreal Point to the Diocese. The Jesuit Fathers constructed the Assumption Parish in 1787, the first Roman Catholic Parish west of ...

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Dr. Dudley Forde House

Fine example

of town's Georgian

architecture.

Home of Dr. Dudley Forde

popular medical practitioner

in this area for many years

Died 1945

Marker is on Bawn Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Phillips 66 Petroleum Company Gas Station

Built in 1930 by the Independent Oil

and Gas Company, this Tudor

Revival style gas station was

purchased by Phillips 66 Petroleum

Company the same year. The

original "house" style brick building

was modified in the 1940s to the

L-shaped plan seen today. Gas was

sold and vehicles ...

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American Legion Post 206 Veterans Memorial

Honoring all veterans

of all wars and conflicts

engaged by the United States

Marker is on Military Avenue (U.S. 69) near 14th Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Site of the Vine Street Brown Derby

1628 Vine Street

The most famous Hollywood restaurant of its day, the Brown Derby opened Valentine's Day, 1929. Owner Robert Cobb was also the inventor of the Cobb Salad. He originated furnishing telephones at tables during mealtime. celebrities popularity was ...

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