Moorefield Memorial Highway

In Memory of

Charles Henry Moorefield

State Highway Engineer

of South Carolina

1920 - 1935

Marker is at the intersection of Freeman Road (U.S. 178) and Moorefield Street, on the left when traveling south on Freeman Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Radkey House

A typical post-Civil War Austin dwelling, built about 1870 two blocks from the State Capitol for merchant and metalsmith Bernard Radkey (1846-83) and his wife, Mary Cummings Radkey (1851-96). Structure is of cypress wood. Radkey served as a city alderman ...

Phelps' Brigade

Baird's Division - Palmer's Corps.

Phelps' Brigade

Baird's Division - Palmer's Corps.

Col. Edward H. Phelp's.

Col. William H. Hays.

Nov. 25, 1863, 5 p.m.

10th Indiana - Lieut. Col. Marsh B. Taylor.

74th Indiana - Lieut. Col. Myron Baker.

4th Kentucky - Maj. Robert M. Kelly.

10th Kentucky ...

Dedicated to the Memory of Pony Express Riders

1860 The Knights of the Saddle 1861

William Hamilton, the first Pony Express rider to reach Benicia on the final relay. Carrying the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to California. Arrived in this city April 23, 1860, at 7 a.m. Thomas ...

The Archibald Irwin House

On September 26, 2003, this property was nearly destroyed by fire. Located in the northwest corner in a two-story log house built in 1791-1792 by Archibald Irwin. Irwin's granddaughter Jane married William Henry Harrison, Jr., and served as First Lady ...

Fort James

A mile and a half south of here on the Chickahominy River stood Moysonec, an Indian village. Some of the Chickahominy Indians residing there captured Captain John Smith in 1607. In the wake of the 1644 Indian uprising, the colonists ...

Minisink Trail

This point marks the intersection of the upper and lower Minisink Trails connector used by Lenape for travel and trade between the Delaware and Raritan Rivers.

Marker is at the intersection of Leigh Street and Center Street, on the left when ...

Original Site of The Steamboat House

Dr. Rufus W. Bailey, a teacher, minister and attorney educated in New England, came to Huntsville as a language professor at Austin College in 1855. He acquired an eight-acre tract on this site and erected a house which he named ...

Grouseland Treaty Line

(August 21, 1805)

Territorial Governor, William Henry Harrison, in a treaty with Indians held at Vincennes, secured lands which for the first time opened the entire north bank of the Ohio River for settlement.

Marker is at the intersection of Indiana Route ...

Site of First Game in the NFL

On October 3, 1920 the first game matching two professional teams of the American Professional Football Association, a league that would become the National Football League (NFL), was held on this field within Triangle Park. In that game, the Dayton ...