Holy Cross Parish

Father Gabriel Richard received this triangular plot of land by way of a grant from President John Quincy Adams on April 1, 1825. This area, known as Catholic Point, contains, among other buildings a church, a rectory, a convent, the ...

Monroe’s Crossroads

Gen. Kilpatrick's Union cavalry repulsed Gen. Hampton's Confederate cavalry there, March 10, 1865, ten miles north. Now in Fort Bragg area.

Marker is at the intersection of Fayetteville Road (U.S. 401) and Vass Road (County Road 1300), on the right when ...

An Ideal Crossing

The Potomac River is calm and narrow here, making it an ideal location for a ferry crossing. In 1791 Edwards Ferry began to operate here, connecting Maryland farmers to the Goose Creek Canal in Virginia and to the Leesburg markets. ...

Mt. Ephraim Crossroads

Sharpshooters Hold the Line

You are looking at Sugarloaf Mountain, where the running cavalry fight that began in the late afternoon on September 9, 1862, in Barnesville came to a halt. By the next morning, the 7th and 9th Virginia Cavalry ...

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Civil War Nurses

1861–1865. In response to Governor Morton’s call of October 1861, eighty Sisters of the Holy Cross under the leadership of Mother Angela served as military nurses. The Sisters became the forerunners of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1862 ...

Potomac Crossings

Here Lee turned east to the Potomac, crossing at White's Ford, September 6, 1862, in his invasion of Maryland. Jubal A. Early, returning from his Washington raid, crossed the river at White’s Ford, July 14, 1864.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Canadian Cross of Sacrifice

WW I / WW II / Korea

[Panel 1]:

Erected by the Government of Canada in honour of the citizens of the United States who served in the Canadian Army and gave their lives in the Great War, 1914-1918.

[Panel 2]:

In honour of ...

Cross Creek Linear Park

Our Pathway to the Future

1. Cool Spring

Cool Spring is located on the south bank of Cross Creek, which winds its way through downtown Fayetteville. The spring was the primary soucre of water first for Native Americans and subsequently for the ...

San Buenaventura Mission Cross

Restored September 9, 1912

by

The Alice M. Bartlett Club

of San Buenaventura, California,

to take the place of the Mission Cross erected

on this spot by the Franciscan Missionary

Padre Junipero Serra 1782

Marker can be reached from Father Serra Cross when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gibbs Crossroads

Crossroads of War

Places once prominent in Tennessee’s antebellum transportation routes are sometimes almost forgotten places today. This road intersection was of significant strategic value in fighting the war in Tennessee’s Upper Cumberland region. During the Civil War, countless soldiers and ...