Pennsylvania Turnpike

This is one of the original service plazas for the nation's first long-distance superhighway. On October 1, 1940, the Turnpike opened, stretching 160 miles from Irwin to Carlisle. The Turnpike Commission had been created in 1937; construction utilized the old ...

Site of the Home of Thomas J. Rusk

1803 - 1857

Soldier - Statesman of the Republic of Texas - A hero of San Jacinto - Commander-In-Chief of the army 1836 - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1839 - President of the Constitutional Convention, 1845 - United States ...

Val Verde Battery

C.S.A.

Six brass field guns taken by Lt. Joseph D. Sayers' Company in Civil War Battle of Val Verde, N. Mex., 1862, and brought back to Texas with incredible difficulty, armed a new unit of hand-picked men. Sound of the Val ...

Forks of the Little Pigeon Cemetery

This churchyard is one of the oldest Baptist churchyards in Tennessee, (Established in 1789). It is the final resting place for many prominent pioneers. Deeded to the City of Sevierville by The First Baptist Church of Sevierville in 1975. It ...

Trail of Tears

In May 1838 soldiers, under the command of Gen. Winfield Scott, began rounding up Cherokee Indians in this area who had refused to move to Indian Territory (Oklahoma). About 15,000 Cherokees were placed in stockades in TN and AL until ...

Bermuda Hundred

Established 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale.

First incorporated Virginia town 1614.

Home of John Rolfe, colony recorder, who married Pocahontas.

Rev. Alexander Whitaker ministered here.

Early port of Richmond.

Erected … 1938 by Bermuda Hundred Chapter D.A.R.

Marker is on Bermuda Hundred Road 1.4 miles east ...

The Great Falls Line

The Bluemont Branch of the Washington & Old Dominion was not the railroad’s only line. The Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad arose in 1906 from the vision of two prominent men. Sen. Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia had ...

Methye Portage

The earliest trade route between eastward and northward flowing waters followed the Clearwater River and the Methye Portage.

Discovered by Peter Pond in 1778 and used continuously for more than a century for more than a century by fur-traders and explorers, ...

The Pyrogy – Pyrohy

Best Made in Glendon

A European food that was brought to Western Canada in the early 19th century by the working and poor people. It originated as a boiled dumpling, and later people added whatever they desired inside, and it became ...

Bermuda Hundred Landing

Butler’s Campaign Begins

Union Gen. Benjamin Butler’s 30,000-man Army of the James landed here without opposition on May 5, 1864. Despite his surprise arrival, Butler proved unable to take advantage of the unprepared Confederate defenders below Richmond.

He pushed west toward Port ...