Oak Grove Methodist Church

A direct outgrowth of the New Mill Creek Society organized in 1772 by the Rev. Joseph Pilmoor, the first official Methodist missionary to America. Methodist meetings were held as early as 1770 in the Cutherell home, a regular preaching place ...

Oak Grove Baptist Church

Joe Thoms, Sr., a slave harness-maker, founded

Oak Grove Baptist Church during the Civil War at his nearby log cabin, which burned in 1869. The congregation then met here, on land owned by John J. Robinson, a white farmer, in ...

Oak Grove Veterans Memorial

picture of Stylized Eagle

In Memory of the Members of the U. S. Armed Forces who made the Supreme Sacrifice in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam

S/Sgt. Frank R. Bailey . . . Africa

Cpl. Thomas W. Davis . . ...

Oak Grove Cemetery and Arboretum

In 1850, this eighty acre tract known as the Kilbourne farm was purchased for use as a cemetery. The “Old Burial Grounds,” located where Ohio Wesleyan's Selby Stadium now stands, had deteriorated and most of those remains were removed to ...

Oak Grove School

Oak Grove School was constructed ca. 1910 and served nearby African-American children from ca. 1910-1950. Tradition maintains that Oak Grove's construction was made possible through the donation of the site by a local African-American family, the assistance of a local ...

Oak Grove - Bacon Race Church

This was the first Baptist Church established in Prince William County, circa 1774. It was led by Elder David Thomas. This was the first of three churches at this site. The last church built in, 1836, stood until it collapsed ...

History at Oak Grove

Here George Washington, while living at Wakefield with a brother, went to school, 1744–1746. Here Union Cavalry came on a raid through the Northern Neck, May 1863. Several miles north of this place, James Monroe, fifth President of the United ...

Oak Grove Schoolhouse

This old field-school was built c. 1815 in the Oak Grove area approximately five miles east of here. Typical of early educational facilities in South Carolina, it was a private community school somewhat subsidized with state funds from the Free ...

Oak Grove

Plantation home of John

Smith, used as Confed-

erate hospital during

the Battle of Averas-

boro, March 16, 1865.

Marker is on Burnett Road (North Carolina Route 82), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oak Grove Stage Station

Occupied in 1858 by Warren Hall, Divison Superintendent, Butterfield Overland Mail which operated between San Francisco and the eastern termini, St. Louis and Memphis, from September 15, 1858 to March 2, 1861. The first mail stage from the east driven ...