Lanesborough / Béal Átha Liag History 500 - 1900 AD

The Mouth of the Ford of Stones

The ancient name of Lanesborough is Béal Átha Liag which means “Mouth of the Ford of Stones”. Situated at the northern tip of Lough Ree, or Loch Rí - meaning the “Lake of ...

Frederick Douglass

On this site, where the "Genovar Opera House" once stood, Frederick Douglass spoke to the residents of St. Augustine on Sunday, April 7, 1889.

Born into slavery in 1818, Douglass rose in the pre-Civil War years to become a leading ...

This is Yamacraw Bluff

This is Yamacraw Bluff where the Colony of Georgia was founded February 12, 1733 by Gen.James Edward Oglethrope. Voted by the Georgia Daughters of the American Revolution the Most Historic Spot In Georgia

Marker is on W. Bay Street near ...

Pickens Cemetery

This land, Cherokee territory until 1777, became the final resting place after the American Revolution for early pioneers who settled the area. A number of soldiers of the Revolution are buried here including Robert Pickens, who served in the ...

Overall Bridge

Design Innovation

The metal truss bridge here at Overall, Page County Bridge No. 1990, is a historically innovative design. It was built in 1938 as part of a major realignment of present-day U.S. Route 340, then called State Route 12, ...

108th Field Artillery

(Front):World War I

Champagne

Oise-Aisne

Lorraine

Meuse-Argonne

Ypres-Lys

World War II

Normandy

Northern France

Ardennes

Rhineland

Central Europe

(Back):Organized Dec. 11, 1840

1st Vol. Inf., 102nd of the line

2nd Infantry, Nov. 30, 1860

19th Penna. Vol., April 27, 1861

Site of "Verna"

Site of "Verna"

Home of Timothy Dwight

Chaplain in Continental Army

Pastor of Greenfield

Founder of Academy

Poet of "Greenfield Hill"

President of Yale 1795 - 1815

Marker is on Bronson Avenue 0.1 miles from Verna Hill Road, on the ...

Site of First Baptist Church / Baptist Seminary

Site of First Baptist Church

In 1825, Wm. Bullein Johnson opened a subscription for a Baptist meetinghouse, which was soon built here. The 120 foot-square lot, which extended well into present McBee Ave., was given by Vardry McBee. After its ...

Men of Greenfield Hill

In Memory Of The

Men Of Greenfield Hill

Who Fought In

The American Revolution

John Alvord • Benjamin Banks 4th • Daniel Banks • David Banks • Ebenezer Banks Esq. • Ebenezer Banks • Elijah Banks • Eliphalet Banks • ...

The Historic Page Valley

Scenic Virginia Highlight

Laying within the larger Shenandoah Valley, the Page Valley is bounded on the east by the Blue Ridge and on the west by the Massanutten Mountain. The Page Valley's early European settlers were Pennsylvania Germans who brought ...