The Cabell House

Dedicated to the memory

of

William Henry Cabell

Cadet First Sergeant, Co. D.

VMI Class of 1865

killed at the

Battle of New Market

May 15, 1864

Established by his descendants

Marker is at the intersection of Letcher Avenue and Maiden Lane, on the left when traveling east on ...

Columbus Area Business Hall of Fame

Inducted 2010

Edgar Howard

Edgar Howard had a career in the newspaper business that spanned more than 75 years. After a career in various jobs within newspapers, he bought the newspaper in Papillion in 1883 and established a paper in ...

General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr.

U.S.M.C. VMI 1917

Combat Veteran

World Wars I and II – Korea

Commandant U.S. Marine Corps

Chairman VMI Foundation

Presented by

Bruce B. Cameron VMI 1938

Marker is on Letcher Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Halliburton

Main Marker: Halliburton

Incorporated July 1, 1924

Leading the Industry - Worldwide

Duncan and Halliburton Have Served

Each Other For 80 Years

Looking to a Great Future

Small Inset: This Halliburton rig was erected in 1972 to train Russian engineers ...

Lincoln's Confidante

Quincy's Eliza Caldwell Browning and Abraham Lincoln first met in 1836. She was a new bride, and he had just received his law license. When Eliza discovered Lincoln's "great merits," the two established an easy rapport. Their nearly thirty-year friendship ...

Political Allies

Abraham Lincoln and John Wood shared similar political views, Both were members of the Whig Party and were strongly allied against slavery. Lincoln and Wood worked to establish the Republican Party, and each campaigned for the other's cause during their ...

The Alexander-Withrow House, ca. 1793

Historic Lexington

The Alexander-Withrow House is one of the oldest surviving structures in Lexington. Dating from ca. 1793, it was built by William Alexander one of the area’s first settlers and the town’s first postmaster. A large and distinctive building, with ...

The Sloan House, ca. 1844-45

Historic Lexington

Alexander T. Sloan and his wife, prominent local hotel keepers, bought the land at the corner of Randolph and Washington Streets in 1844 and proceeded to build their “mansion house” and several “tenements.” This house, at 107 is one ...

Campbell House, ca. 1845

Historic Lexington

Andrew Reid purchased this lot in 1784 from the town’s trustees. Later, between 1844 and 1845, Alexander T. Sloan, a local hotel owner and businessman, built this house. His wife reported that the site was a “rough and unsightly ...

The Fame of Stonewall Jackson

Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.M., G.C.M.G.

British soldier of the highest rank,

says:

“The fame of Stonewall Jackson is no longer the exclusive property of Virginia and the South; it has become the birthright of every man ...