Battle of Bulltown

"Come and take us"

On the hill in front of you are two fortifications that Union Gen. George B. McClellan ordered constructed late in1861. They guarded the wooden covered bridge located here on the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike. In October ...

Kesler's Raid

Capture of Upshur County Militia

In September 1863, Confederate Maj. Joseph K. Kesler, 19th Virginia Cavalry, led a raid from Pocahontas County through Upshur County and Centerville (present-day Rock Cave). On September 2, Kesler’s commander, Col. William L. Jackson, ordered him ...

McClellan's Buckhannon Camp

Prelude to Rich Mountain

(Preface): In the spring of 1861, Union forces rushed into northwestern Virginia to secure the vital Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, protect important turnpikes, and support Unionists against Confederates. The two sides fought numerous engagements between June and ...

The Bassel House

The Columns Unite

On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that they marched ...

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

No Asylum from War

When the Civil War began in 1861, the one-story wing on the far left of the building in front of you was all that stood here at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. The foundation of the main building ...

Clarksburg Defenses

Protecting the Town and Railroad

On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that ...

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

This Memorial was established by the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, as directed by an Act of the United States Congress.

The authorizing law was sponsored by U.S. Representative Mario Biaggi

and U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell, and was signed ...

ATSF Locomotive No. 3416

Donated to the City of Great Bend this 18th day of Sept., 1956 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.

History

Purchased in July 1919 from Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone, Pennsylvania at a cost of $69,000. Used in passenger ...

U.S. Post Office / Mural

Circa 1939

Placed January 1988

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Wisconsin Street and Maple Street, on the right when traveling west on Wisconsin Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cathedral of the Plains

St. Fidelis Church

Erected between 1908 and 1911 by German and German Russian Catholics, this native limestone edifice is one of the largest buildings on the Great Plains, its twin towers soar 141 feet above its 220 feet by 79 feet ...