Harrison-Guerry-Brannon-Crawford Family Cemetery

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Approximately 200 yards SW is an old family graveyard where lie buried many distinguished Georgians. Capt. James Harrison, one of the earlier settlers of this area, rests here. His home, begun 1837, was the first frame house in this area ...

Iron Builds America

When European settlers discovered the Patapsco Valley, they found a source of untamed beauty rich in resources. Susquehannock and Pscataway Indians hunted and fished the valley full of elk, black bear, bison, gray wolves and deer. The white settlers also ...

Fort Wead

C.H.S.

Civil War Sites

S.U.V.

Army of the James

Marker is at the intersection of Greyledge Boulevard and Greyledge Court, on the left when traveling west on Greyledge Boulevard.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tubac Presidio

Here stood the original Spanish presidio or fort established as San Ignacio de Tubac after the Pima uprising of 1751. Captain Juan Bautista de Anza was in command in 1775, when he led his famous expedition to California to found ...

The Embattled Ridge

Aug 6, 1864. The ridge just S. (densely wooded at the time) was fortified & held by Gen. W. B. Bate's div., Hardee's A.C. (CSA). It extended west from the Atlanta to East Point works, & blocked further Federal moves ...

Bermuda Hundred

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Before determining to settle at Jamestown, the English sought a safe place to plant their colony further west along the James River. On that trip, John Smith and his fellow Englishmen found an ...

Arts and Industries Building

The Arts and Industries Building, the second oldest Smithsonian building, was the first building designed for the National Museum, as the Smithsonian's first museum was known. It was constructed between 1879 and 1881 to meet the need for more exhibition ...

Charles Debrille Poston

1825-1902

Poston, know as the father of Arizona, came to Tubac in 1854 after the Gadsden Purchase and established the headquarters of a mining company, with mines near Arivaca and in the Santa Rita Mountains. Mining activities were discontinued during the ...

Veterans' Memorial

Center marker:

In Honor

and

Tribute

To All Veterans

of

All Wars

Aug. 20, 1972

Presented by Parade of the Hills

Left marker:

In Honor and Memory

of the Vietnam

Conflict Veterans

Presented by Parade of the Hills Committee

May 18, 1991

Right marker:

In Honor and Memory

of the Korean

Conflict Veterans

Presented by ...

The Joseph R. Rice Log Cabin

Joseph Redmond Rice (1805-1866) cut timber, then his young wife, Willie Masters Rice (1809-1881), snaked the logs to a homesite 16 miles southwest of here. The cabin they built was a noted way-station on the San Antonio Road. They brought ...