Ferries across the Delaware

Two ferries across the Delaware River in the Trenton area date from the late 17th century – the Yardley Ferry and the Trenton or Middle Ferry. Two more – the Upper and Lower Ferries – were added later in the ...

Kilfenora Cathedral and High Crosses

Ardeaglais agus Ardchrosanna Chill Fhionnúrach

Kilfenora was the diocese of the Kingdom of Corcomroe and was the smallest diocese in medieval Ireland.

Although a monastery was founded here more than 500 years earlier by St Fachtna, Kilfenora only became significant when it ...

Horsehead Crossing

One of the most important sites in the old west. Named for skulls pointing toward crossing. Only ford for many miles where animals could enter, drink and leave Pecos River safely. Elsewhere deep banks would trap them. Ford mapped 1849 ...

Washington Crossing the Delaware

(On the back of the pedestal):

This statue which was carved in Italy, and was first exhibited at the Centennial Exposition was purchased and presented to the city by the Mayor, the Common Council and other officials of the City of ...

Cross Keys Battlefield

Here, June 8, 1862, Gen. J. C. Fremont—pursuing Gen. T. J. “Stonewall” Jackson—was checked by Gen. R. S. Ewell with part of Jackson’s army, which lay towards Port Republic. Federals engaged: 12,750, killed and wounded: 684. Confederates engaged: 8,000, killed ...

Smith’s Crossroads

Named for pioneer settler William Smith, a New England teacher and merchant, who settled here in 1820, it was the junction of the Kiuka War Trace (later Black Fox Trail) to the Cumberland and the main north-south Indian trail to ...

Cross Post Office

This post office, originally named Cross Mill,

was established in 1879. Adam Cross, a local

storekeeper & Civil War veteran, was first

postmaster.

Marker is on Ranger Drive (State Road 6), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Crossroads to War

During the Civil War, this junction of Hunter Mill Road and the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad was a vital crossroads as Union and Confederate troops moved along the tracks between Vienna and Leesburg. In Sept. 1862, the Confederate Brig. ...

Cheek's Crossroads

Here the Kentucky Road, from Cumberland Gap to the Carolinas, crossed the Stage Road, from Abingdon, Va., to the west. In 1790, Jesse Cheek had a store about 50 yds. N.E. On this spot the Deaderick family operated a store ...

Civilians in the Crossfire

In seventy-two hours the Chancellor family's world was turned upside down. A Union soldier described the Chancellor women on April 30:

"Upon the upper porch was quite a bevy of ladies in light, dressy, attractive spring costumes. They were not at ...