Potomac Path

The Potomac Path, or King’s Highway, was a major transportation route linking the northern and southern colonies in colonial America. Following an ancient Indian trail, the road assumed great importance for overland travel between the colonies and in the early ...

"A Pacific Paradise on the Potomac"

"A Pacific Paradise on the Potomac," suggests the type of atmosphere that existed at Freestone Point in July, 1957. The S.S. Freestone, a gambling ship, was the main attraction of an exciting new recreational resort. Even though it was illegal ...

A Fight on the Potomac

A Fight on the Potomac took place here on September 25, 1861. According to Confederate Sgt. Wilmot Walter Curry, his unit was ordered to construct a battery at Freestone Point in order to deflect attention from larger, more permanent batteries ...

Tommy Miller House

Circa 1901

Tommy Miller had this house built on the foundation of an earlier home that had served for a time as a parsonage for the Methodist church. Possible traces of an Underground Railroad hiding place from that earlier era are ...

To Gov. Troup's Tomb

»— 4 mi. ?

George Michael Troup, "Georgia`s most fiery Governor" is buried beside his bother in a tomb at Rosemont, one of his many plantations. Born in 1780 Troup died April 28, 1856 in Overseer Bridges' home while visiting Rosemont. ...

Atomic Bomb Accident at Mars Bluff, March 11, 1958

[Marker Front]

In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near here.

The unarmed 7,600-lb., 10'8"-long bomb was aboard a B-47E bomber on a training mission headed for England. Its high-explosive trigger ...

People and the Potomac

Great Falls Park

The Potomac River is the second largest watershed feeding the Chesapeake Bay. Early peoples depended on the river for food and made their homes along its banks. European settlers saw the river as a source for transportation, expansion, ...

Tom Lee Memorial

A very worthy Negro

Tom Lee with his boat “Zev” saved thirty-two lives when the steamer U.S. Norman sank about twenty miles below Memphis May 8, 1925. But he has a finer monument than this—an invisible one. A monument of kindliness, ...

The King's Highway ~ The Potomac Path

The King’s Highway was the first north-south route through Virginia. The road began in Boston and ended in Williamsburg. It may have followed one or more trails that American Indians used before European colonization.

The route was first cleared on ...

Lincoln’s Tomb

Lincoln

[Also engraved in the stone around the tomb are the names or abbreviations of every state at the time of Abraham Lincoln’s death]

Marker is on Monument Avenue near W Oakridge Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org