The Rossborough Inn

Erected in 1798 in the infancy of the nation and a few years before the founding of the University of Maryland. The Rossborough Inn stands as one of the landmarks of the nation's and of the University's growth. This historic ...

Ross

Headquarters, 3rd Brigade - 1st Division

U.S.

Headquarters, 3d Brigade,

1st Division,

Army of the Tennessee;

Col. L.F. Ross, 17th Illinois.

Established March 21st,

1862.

Col. Julius Raith,

Commanding,

April 6th, 1862.

Marker is on Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Rossville Gap

A major objective of General Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of Tennessee during the Chickamauga Campaign was to block the Federal Army from Chattanooga. Similarly, General William Rosecrans' Federal Army of the Cumberland made every effort to keep this line open.

Because ...

Ferries across the Delaware

Two ferries across the Delaware River in the Trenton area date from the late 17th century – the Yardley Ferry and the Trenton or Middle Ferry. Two more – the Upper and Lower Ferries – were added later in the ...

Kilfenora Cathedral and High Crosses

Ardeaglais agus Ardchrosanna Chill Fhionnúrach

Kilfenora was the diocese of the Kingdom of Corcomroe and was the smallest diocese in medieval Ireland.

Although a monastery was founded here more than 500 years earlier by St Fachtna, Kilfenora only became significant when it ...

Horsehead Crossing

One of the most important sites in the old west. Named for skulls pointing toward crossing. Only ford for many miles where animals could enter, drink and leave Pecos River safely. Elsewhere deep banks would trap them. Ford mapped 1849 ...

Washington Crossing the Delaware

(On the back of the pedestal):

This statue which was carved in Italy, and was first exhibited at the Centennial Exposition was purchased and presented to the city by the Mayor, the Common Council and other officials of the City of ...

Cross Keys Battlefield

Here, June 8, 1862, Gen. J. C. Fremont—pursuing Gen. T. J. “Stonewall” Jackson—was checked by Gen. R. S. Ewell with part of Jackson’s army, which lay towards Port Republic. Federals engaged: 12,750, killed and wounded: 684. Confederates engaged: 8,000, killed ...

Smith’s Crossroads

Named for pioneer settler William Smith, a New England teacher and merchant, who settled here in 1820, it was the junction of the Kiuka War Trace (later Black Fox Trail) to the Cumberland and the main north-south Indian trail to ...

James J. Ross

Born in South Carolina in about 1787, James

Jeffres Ross was a member of the ""Old Three

Hundred."" He arrived in Stephen F. Austin's colony

in late 1822 or early 1823, moving onto the league

granted him near Eagle Lake ...