Cross Post Office

This post office, originally named Cross Mill,

was established in 1879. Adam Cross, a local

storekeeper & Civil War veteran, was first

postmaster.

Marker is on Ranger Drive (State Road 6), on the left when traveling south.

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Crossroads to War

During the Civil War, this junction of Hunter Mill Road and the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad was a vital crossroads as Union and Confederate troops moved along the tracks between Vienna and Leesburg. In Sept. 1862, the Confederate Brig. ...

Cheek's Crossroads

Here the Kentucky Road, from Cumberland Gap to the Carolinas, crossed the Stage Road, from Abingdon, Va., to the west. In 1790, Jesse Cheek had a store about 50 yds. N.E. On this spot the Deaderick family operated a store ...

Civilians in the Crossfire

In seventy-two hours the Chancellor family's world was turned upside down. A Union soldier described the Chancellor women on April 30:

"Upon the upper porch was quite a bevy of ladies in light, dressy, attractive spring costumes. They were not at ...

John Ross Home

This comfortable two-story log house was the home of Cherokee Chief John Ross from boyhood until he went west over the "Trail of Tears," losing his Indian wife enroute. Although only one-eighth Indian himself, Ross was the elected "Principal Chief" ...

Harrison's Crossing

November 3, 1811

100 yards south, Harrison's Army crossed the Big Vermillion at sunrise, having just built Boyd's Blockhouse, enroute to the Prophet's Town at the mouth of the Tippecanoe to disperse the Indians there assembled.

Marker is on Indiana Route 63 ...

Transportation Crossroads

During the early 1800's, present Southeastern Oklahoma was a major transportation crossroads. Roads connected Fort Towson in the Choctaw Nation to military installations to the North, South and West. On the Texas side of the Red River, Jonesboro was a ...

Sunset Crossing

This crossing, first noted early in the 1850s in journals and maps of explorers along the 35th parallel, is the only convergence of major travel routes on the Little Colorado River. It lies on the trail used by Mormon immigrants ...

Sheppard's Crossroads

In 1828, this property, shown on Anderson's 1816 map as Kirksey's Tavern, was sold by John Kirksey to James Sheppard (1790-1859), state representative, merchant, and War of 1812 veteran. He and Louise Mobley, his third wife, were parents of John ...

Emigrant Crossing

After reaching Boise River, emigrant wagons had to travel 30 miles to find a good crossing about 1/4 mile north of here.

They had to avoid a wide zone of shifting channels, so they descended Canyon Hill where the route ...