Buffalo Springs

Interpretive Trail

Springhouse and Gazebo

The gazebo in front of you sits over the cistern and springhouse for Spring #2. Of the three springs that were considered to have medicinal attributes, Spring #2 was the most famous. Bottled water from this spring ...

L. B. J. Boyhood Home

Sam Ealy Johnson Jr. (1877-1937) and his wife Rebekah Baines Johnson (1881-1958) bought this residence in 1913. Sam, an educator and six-term Texas legislator, and Rebekah, an educator and journalist, raised five children here. The frame house was built in ...

Robert Lee Vann

(1879-1940)

Publisher & editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, 1910-40. He built it into a preeminent Black weekly, a strong voice for civil rights & economic empowerment. It had its headquarters here. Vann was special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, 1933-35.

Marker ...

“Indian Spring”

Count de Rochambeau’s heavy artillery and baggage train camped near this point September 10, 1781. After fording the Susquehanna River at Bald Friar they proceeded to Bush to join the main troops.

Marker is on Priestford Road (Route 136) south of ...

Byrne's Mississippi Battery

Trabue's Brigade - Breckinridge's Corps

C.S.

Byrne's Mississippi Battery,

Trabue's (1st) Brig., Breckinridge's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This battery was engaged here Sunday afternoon from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. April 6, 1862.

Marker can be reached from Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road, on the left when ...

Peach Bottom Slate Region

Peach Bottom Slate, first used 1734, is the oldest in America. The first commercial cut having been made 1785 by workmen who were primarily Welsh. At the London Crystal Palace Exposition, 1850, Peach Bottom Slate was judged best in the ...

6th Mississippi and 23d Tennessee

Cleburne's Brigade - Hardee's Corps

C.S.

6th Mississippi, 23d Tennessee,

Cleburne's (2d) Brigade, Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

About half of the 23d Tenn. and 60 of the 5th Miss. were engaged here at about noon April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road, ...

Sir John Colleton

(1608-1666)

Colonel in English Civil War

Gallant Naval Officer

Retired to Barbados

County Named for Him

Marker can be reached from Richland Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lafayette at Colonel Rigbie’s House

Had Lafayette failed in quelling the mutiny of his troops here on Friday, April 13, 1781, the Battle of Yorktown might never have been fought.

Marker is on Castleton Road 0.2 miles south of Berkley Road, on the right when traveling ...

Tuskegee Airmen

"....the privileges of being an American" belong to those brave enough to fight for them."

Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.

In our tradition of honoring American aviators who have flown into the pages of history, the City of Lancaster dedicates ...