Site of Old Rancho Davis

Home of Henry Clay Davis, a Kentuckian

Came to Texas in 1839 * served with Taylor's army in 1846 * married into the Garza family, pioneer settlers and large landowners in the region * Around his home, Rio Grande City grew ...

Avenue of Trees

This Avenue of Trees, sponsored by Clemmer-McGuffin Post 13, American Legion and Auxiliary, was given in loving memory by the people of Staunton and Augusta County in memoriam 1917-1918

Marker is on Richmond Avenue (U.S. 250), on the right when traveling ...

“We had a hardscrabble up…”

Union forces now occupied Fort Johnson and were moving to capture Staunton. “Stonewall” Jackson, moving with speed and secrecy, had arrived at the foot of Shenandoah Mountain and moved west to defeat Union Generals John C. Fremont and R.H. Milroy ...

Aquiles Arriola Square

The first fired-brick building in Florence was built here in 1886 for William R Stone, District Court Clerk, later Territorial District Attorney. The next year Stone added an office where he and District Attorney Richard E. Sloan, later Judge and ...

North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company

This was a major hydraulic operation in California. Its vast system of canals and flumes using a drainage tunnel 7800 feet long was termed a feat of engineering skill. It was the principal defendant in an anti-debris lawsuit settled by ...

Roanoke

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Roanoke, ½ mile west of here on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River was originally an Indian village. Incorporated in 1832 with about 30 families, a post office and several stores, it became a thriving white settlement. Roanoke was ...

“… to go wee did not know where”

On April 20, 1862, the Confederate garrison left Fort Johnson to protect Staunton, and to avoid being cut off from the rear by another advancing Union Army. Lt. Pryor describes the retreat from the mountain.

Camp at Westview, 7 mil

N, Of ...

Power's Ferry

Established 1835 by James Power, (1790-1870).

Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard’s 4th A. C. (Army of the Cumberland) [US], moved from Vining’s station to this vicinity July 9, 10, 1864. Newton’s (2d) div. was diverted to Roswell to support Garrard’s cav. ...

Green Camp

1838....................1941

The village of Berwick was

founded in June 1838 by

David Beach

Incorporated 1875 as

Green Camp in honor of

General Green

Who with his army

camped in this vicinity

during the War of 1812.

Pop...................372

Marker is at the intersection of Marion-Green Camp Road (Ohio Route 739) and Mill ...

Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge / Fannie Askew Williams Park

Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge

According to the May 2, 1883 minutes of the Early County Board of Commissioners, a commission was appointed "to inquire into the practicability of construction a bridge across Coheelee Creek at McDonald Ford." However, the construction contract ...