The Hanging Rock Iron Region / The Blast Furnaces of Lawrence Co

The Hanging Rock Iron Region

To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these ...

Ironton - Lawrence County Memorial Day Parade

Since 1868, Ironton's annual Memorial Day parade has recognized those in Lawrence County who died while defending our country's freedom. This was the same year in which the Grand Army of the Republic established May 30 as Decoration Day. Originally ...

Many Came by Handcart

Between June 9, 1856, and July 6, 1860, ten separate Handcart Companies left Iowa

City, Iowa, or Florence, Nebraska to their land of Zion in the Utah Territory. There were

653 handcarts and 50 wagons.

Nearly 3,000 souls, some with babes in arms, ...

The Underground Railroad in Pike County

Historic Underground Railroad Site

An Elm Grove abolitionist maintained a lonely Underground Railroad station where he provided safety for escaping enslaved persons. These fugitives were attempting to travel the unfriendly route from Houston Hollow in Scioto County to safe places in ...

Historic Kolob Mountain

Kolob

by Owen Sanders

When lassitude tugs at your body

and robs you of zest to exist

come with me to Kolob

and walk through the mild morning mist

Huddle at dawn on a hillside

and scan the green valley below;

Listen to snapping and crackle of twigs

and ...

Hurricane Canal

Utah Historic Site

The construction of the Hurricane Canal is one of Utah's proudest stories of pioneer determination. This canal, built completely by hand, opened the Hurricane Bench to farming and the establishment of the town of Hurricane.

In 1893 two local ...

McDuffie High School

"Home of the Fighting Scots"

McDuffie High School stood

proudly at this location from

1964 until 1996. Serving

Anderson as a comprehensive

vocational high school,

McDuffie enrollment averaged

1000 students each year it was

open. Many of Anderson's

current business ...

Anderson Boys' High School

This archway

formerly stood at the

entrance to

Anderson Boys'

High School

"Home of the Yellow Jackets"

Anderson Boys' High School

was located on this site.

The school educated many of

our city's young men from

the year 1923 until ...

Cheat Mountain

Dramatic Barrier

At the heart of what was then the large state of Virginia, the Allegheny Mountains posed a formidable barrier to settlement and development. Turnpike engineer Claudius Crozet faced the daunting task of designing and building a road over ...

Wickham-Valentine House

Attorney John Wickham (1763-1839) lived at this location beginning in 1790. A prominent lawyer, he helped defend Aaron Burr against treason charges in 1807. Alexander Parris designed this neoclassical house built here for Wickham in 1812. Wickham’s family, including second ...