Starkweather’s Hill

Perryville

Their faces and hands begrimed from the smoke of battle, and their ears ringing with the constant ripping of musketry, Starkweather’s shattered brigade retreated to the ridge in front of you. They had saved several cannon, pushing them back to ...

Old Middlesex County Courthouse

This building served as the Middlesex County courthouse from 1748 to 1852. Although much altered from its original appearance, it is one of Virginia’s rare colonial courthouse buildings. During the American Revolution, the local Committee of Safety met here. According ...

Ellenton Agricultural Club

Established March 24, 1894, this agricultural club was organized to promote the welfare and interests of the Ellenton farmers and to improve conditions generally. The first clubhouse, built in 1904, was moved here in 1953 after the town of Ellenton ...

Burial site of "Elsie"

The Borden Cow

Elsie, a purebred Jersey cow with enormous

brown eyes was chosen to be the

advertising symbol for the Borden Company.

This became one of the best known and most successful

icons in the history of American marketing.

Elsie was featured at the Borden ...

The Cornfield

Perryville

During the Battle of Perryville, a field of ten-foot high cornstalks, brown and dry from a severe drought, covered this valley. Obscured among the corn, 800 members of the 21st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment waited. In the army for less than ...

Concord Center

Time Capsule

To Be Opened March 1, 2022

Dedicated at the construction completion March 1, 2002

Project Team

Owners - BLH Group, LLC

Brookmont Investors II, LLC

Spire Holdings, LLC

Developer - Brookmont Realty Group, LLC

General Contractor - B.L. Harbert International, LLC

Architect - Williams-Blackstock ...

Oregon City

Oregon History

Oregon City - supply point for pioneer emigrants was first located as a claim by Dr. John McLoughlin in 1829. The first provisional legislature of the Oregon Country was held here in 1843 and land and tax laws formulated. ...

Indian Preacher

Rev. Paul Cuffee

Grave of Rev. Paul Cuffee of the Shinnecock Tribe 1790-1812. Grandson and successor to Rev. Peter John and Samson Occum.

Marker is on East Montauk Hwy, (County Route 80) 0.2 miles east of Gravel Hill Rad, on the right ...

Sampit Methodist Church

This church, formally organized in 1839, had its origins in a slave mission begun in 1786 on Gov. Thomas Boone’s plantation, 3 miles SE. Rev. P. A. M. Williams became its first minister in 1840. The first Church, a frame ...

Hood & Hardee Withdraw E. to R.R.

New Hope & Gilgal Church Road.

June 2-4, 1864. Hood’s A.C. was posted 1 mi. W. & Hardee’s A. C. was aligned along Dallas - Acworth rd., N. 1.5 mi to Burnt Hickory rd. - Confederate center & rt.

These ...