Oakland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Jackson River Station

Around 1857, the Virginia Central Railroad completed the Jackson River Depot and was the terminus of the railroad for trains and travelers heading west. Travelers had to continue their travels by horseback or stagecoach. They often stayed in ...

André Captors Monument

On this spot

the 23rd day of September 1780 the spy

Major John André

Adjutant General of the British Army

was captured by

John Paulding, David Williams

and Isaac Van Wart,

all natives of this county.

History has told the rest.

The people of Westchester County ...

This 5 1/2 Foot Diameter Drill Core

This 5 1/2 foot diameter drill core came from the Cary Mine shaft from a depth of 2400 feet below the surface. The shaft was drilled during the period 1942-44 from surface to the 31st level and was later enlarged ...

Edward D. "Ted" and Pat Jones

Katy Trail State Park is one of Missouri's premier attractions, drawing about 400,000 visitors from across the United States and other countries. Stretching 225 miles from St. Charles in the east to Clinton in the west, the trail is the ...

Claysville United Methodist Church

Congregation was organized in 1849. The church, constructed in 1850 of lumber produced on a water-powered sawmill and furnished with seats of chestnut, hand finished, is in an excellent state of preservation. It was first used as a combined church, ...

Greenland Gap

Cliffs 800 feet high lining great cleft in the New Creek and Knobley mountains, which rival the famed Franconia Notch of New England. Scene of skirmish in 1863 between General Jones' cavalry and Federal troops from New Creek.

Marker is at ...

Friend to Friend Memorial

(Front and Back):Friend to Friend

A Brotherhood Undivided

(Left):Friend to Friend

Masonic Memorial

This monument is presented by the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania and dedicated as a memorial to the Freemasons of the Union and Confederacy. Their ...

Gravesite of General John Charles Frémont

1813 – 1890

Atop Rockland Cemetery lies the grave of he whose exploration in the 1840s opened the way west for countless settlers, who issued the first Emancipation Proclamation and who saved the west for the Union in 1861.

From the ashes ...

Old Boundary

Nevada's Southern Boundary 1861 -1867

The 37th Degree North Latitude is marked at this point as the dividing line between the territories of Utah and New Mexico under the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 which originally organized the land ceded ...

Continuing a Tradition: Fremasonry at Gettysburg

The Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania laid and dedicated the cornerstone of the first battlefield monument on July 4, 1865. That Soldier's National Monument is located on the grounds of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, ...