Treatment of the Wounded

The Rochester House stood on this site until its demolition in the mid-1950s. During the Civil War, it was the home of Mrs. Frances Howell Kennedy, widow of Dr. Howard Kennedy. From the beginning of the War, Mrs. Kennedy provided ...

Point Basse

Five rapids covering a distance of about three miles in this area were referred to as Nekoosa (swift water) by the Chippewa Indians, who made their campground on high Swallow Rock overlooking these rapids. At the lower end of the ...

English Neighborhood Road

For 200 years this avenue was the English Neighborhood Road. In colonial days it was the main inland highway between Paulus Hook, Bergen and the English Neighborhood.

Marker is at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Lakeview Avenue, on the left ...

Peytonsburg

Nearby to the east once stood the community

of Peytonsburg a part of Halifax County when

the county was formed in 1752. Peytonsburg

was incorporated as a town in 1759 by the Virginia

General Assembly and became part of Pittsylvania

County in 1766. ...

Forks of Dix River Baptist Church

Constituted at Forks of Dix River, 1782, by Lewis Craig of "Traveling Church." Log church built here on Sugar Creek. John Routt gave one-acre tract for church and stone edifice erected, 1823. It was later torn down and used for ...

Occaneechi Indians

The Occaneechi Indians once lived nearby on an island in the Roanoke River. Well known for trading goods with other Indians nations and colonists, the Occaneechi resided close to several Indian paths. They also hunted, fished, and raised crops that ...

James Thompson, 1750-1825

Burial site of first Lincoln Co. surveyor, commissioned Jan., 1781. Surveyed this area, then part of Lincoln Co. Daniel Boone was made Deputy Surveyor under him, 1783. Thompson, nephew of Isaac Shelby, was State Rep., Garrard Co., 1803; State Senator, ...

Slave Auction Site

You are standing in the geographical heart of the slave trading district of Richmond.

To your left, around and behind you, were the cobble stone streets that led to the large, fashionable, brick hotels where dealers had their first floor ...

Lincoln - Thornton Debate

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In the summer of 1856, Abraham Lincoln traveled across much of Illinois, giving speeches supporting the new Republican Party and its national and state candidates. On August 9, 1856, Lincoln arrived in Shelbyville to participate in ...

1905 Wright Flyer III

This sculpture represents the third Flyer that the Wright Brothers constructed to continue their flying experiments at Huffman Prairie, east of Dayton, within the boundaries of what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The Flyer is piloted by Wilbur Wright ...