State Shipyard

On this road five miles west was the State shipyard on Chickahominy River, burned by the British General Phillips on April 21-22, 1781.

Marker is at the intersection of Forge Road and Richmond Road (U.S. 60), on the right when traveling ...

“Had day lasted an hour longer . . .”

South

Herrick’s Approach

A column of 300 men under Colonel Samuel Herrick marched over this ridge in order to attack Baum’s main position from the rear.

Reinforcements Arrive

No sooner had Stark’s troops overrun Baum’s main position on the top of this hill, than ...

Coulterville

While miners worked nearby streams and veins for gold, George W. Coulter served their needs as merchant and hotel proprietor. His first store, established in 1850, was a tent stocked with merchandise hauled in by pack train. Coulter and the ...

Russian Village

Churaevka

Russian Village: A Brief History

Formerly known as “Churaevka,” Russian Village was established in 1925 as an artistic community for Russians who fled to America after the Revolution of 1917. The village was created by two Russian writers, Count Ilya Tolstoy, ...

Barnesville War Memorial

Lest We Forget Those Who

Gave Their All For Our Country

Our Honored W.W. I K.I.A.

Wm. S. Bowen • Mansel E. Kaiser • George R. Higgins

Our Honored W.W. II K.I.A.

Edmund Bradfield • Wayne A. Thomas

Wm. O. Cordner • Lewis Wade

Paul Orwig • ...

Delaware Crossing and the Grinter Ferry

Just east of this marker, at a point where an old Indian trail led to the water's edge, Moses Grinter established the first ferry on the Kansas River. The year was 1831, and Grinter became the earliest permanent white ...

Liberty Baptist Church

Liberty Church was organized in 1830 with 25 members led by Elder Thomas S. Morris. In 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention appointed Samuel Cornelius Clopton, son of the second pastor, Elder James Clopton, as its first missionary. The third pastor, ...

Confederate Decoration Day

Began here, April 25, 1866, with first annual placing of flowers on graves of Blue and Gray. Idea originated at meeting in Twelve Gables home of Miss Matt Morton.

Marker is on 3rd Street South near 3rd Avenue South.

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Tyree's Plantation

After a detachment of the Marquis de Lafayette's army defeated Maj. John G. Simcoe's cavalry at Spencer's Ordinary near Williamsburg on 26 June 1781, Lafayette shadowed the British army encamped at the colonial capital. He made his headquarters just north ...

September 11, 2001

We will never forget

the tragic events of

September 11, 2001

nor the lives that

were lost

Dedicated May 30, 2005

Marker is at the intersection of Arch Street and Main Street (Ohio Route 147), on the right when traveling north on Arch Street.

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