The American Red Cross - Harvard Field Hospital Unit

(September 1939 - July 1942)

This plaque acknowledges the public spirit of Harvard University and the dedication of the staff of the American Red Cross - Harvard Field Hospital Unit, who provided and staffed a pre-fabricated hospital sent to Salisbury, ...

Cross Keys Tavern

In 1777 Benjamin Thomas was

granted a license to keep

one of the first taverns

near Medford at Cross Keys,

now Fairview.

Marker is on Stokes Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Thatched Chapel Cross

Cross

from thatched chapel

where many generations

of Abbeyfeale people

worshipped until St. Mary's

Church was built in 1846

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (National Road 21) and The Square, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

"Groops of Shrubs covered with the most delicious froot is to be seen in every direction, and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of flours [flowers] Delicately and highly flavered raised above the ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

On Nov. 23, 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived at Cape Girardeau, a trading post established in 1795 by Louis Lorimier, the Spanish-appointed Commandant of the Cape Girardeau District. Here, Lewis, co-commander of the expedition, left the keelboat to ...

Where Rochambeau Crossed the Housatonic River

1781 * 1954

Near this point

Le Comte de Rochambeau

crossed the Housatonic River

leading the French Army

enroute to victory at Yorktown.

Marker is on Interstate 84 (Interstate 84), on the right when traveling east.

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Whiskey Crossing

One and one half miles north of here, at the second crossing of Chiles Creek, is the spot known as “Whiskey Crossing”. Although shrouded in folklore, the origin of the name is based upon a probable incident that took place ...

Across the Ocmulgee

Late on Nov. 17, 1864, the 29th Missouri Mounted Infantry [US] seized the ferry at Planters’ Factory (Ocmulgee Mills) on the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (12 miles NW) to secure it for the crossing of the Right Wing of ...

First Court of Ross County

Here stood the two-story log house in which sat the first court of Ross Co., 1798. Here met the Legislature of the N. W. Territory, 1800-1801-1802. In the War of 1812, this was the U. S. Arsenal and Barracks.

Marker is ...

Crossing Little Sailor's Creek

The Federal Army's Attack, 6:00 p.m. April 6, 1865

"We found a stream of muddy water a dozen feet wide..."

“The colonel’s clear voice sounded ‘ATTENTION’....Descending the hill; ‘Prepare to cross a marsh!’ was passed along the line....Three or four minutes later ...