Battle of Hickory Point

In September, 1856, a band of Proslavery men sacked Grasshopper Falls (Valley Falls) and terrorized the vicinity. On the 13th, the Free-State leader James H. Lane with a small company besieged a party of raiders in log buildings at Hickory ...

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

Construction of this 4,300-foot long breakwater began in April 1881. Eighteen years, $750,000 and over 732,277 tons of granite later, it was completed on November 24, 1899. The lighthouse dates from 1902 and was placed on the National Register of ...

Site of First Baptist Church

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, two black preachers, first Moses, then Gowan Pamphlet, began holding religious services out of doors for free blacks and slaves in the Williamsburg area. Although identified as an organized Baptist church by ...

A Perfect Gibraltar

After the repulse of the Union Navy on May 15, 1862, Drewry’s Bluff became famous as a tangible symbol of Confederate resistance. Work crews made up of impressed slave labor continued construction of the fort, eventually completing a four-sided, enclosed ...

Camp Beall

“Drewry’s Bluff, at least for the present, is the headquarters of the Corps, and I may consequently reasonably expect to stay here for some time at least.”

Henry Lea Graves, 1862

From 1862 to 1865, the training of Confederate Marines took place ...

Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church

Established in 1837; present church built in 1849-50. The first Presbyterian church in Wilkes County.

Marker is on East Main Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Forsyth Bridge

Named by the 5th Cavalry in 1938 for Colonel William Dennison Forsyth Commander of the Fifth U.S. Cavalry at Fort Clark, Aug 1921 - Feb 1924

Placed by "The Colonel's Daughter" Elizabeth Forsyth Scheuber 1995

Marker is on Pecan Road, on the ...

James Wellborn

1767-1854

Served 27 years as state senator; colonel in War of 1812; delegate to the Constitutional Convention 1835. Grave is 1/5 mi. N.

Marker is at the intersection of River Street (Route 268) and Stokes Street, on the right when traveling west ...

Butler Short Line

Richland Historical Marker

Butler Short Line electric street car passed this spot as it ran between Pittsburgh and Butler carrying passengers and freight from May 1st, 1907 until April 22nd, 1931.

Marker is at the intersection of Gibsonia Road (Pennsylvania Route 910) ...

U.S. Army Signal Corps Building

This building served as the communications center for Fort Clark from 1932-1944. The building is of tile brick construction with a veneer of irregular cut field stone. The original footprint was enlarged c. 1940 to accommodate barracks for enlisted soldiers. ...