Parker's Crossroads

Returning to Middle Tennessee after an extensive & successful raid, Forrest's Cavalry Brigade on Dec. 31, 1862, fought here an all-day battle with 2 separate Union brigades converging on him in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy him before he could ...

Brush Creek Crossing

A wagon road crossed Brush Creek at this location connecting the Georgetown Pike with roads to Baltimore. As Federal troops withdrew from the battlefield, they passed Gambrill's Mill and followed this road toward Baltimore, leaving the field to the Confederate ...

Ross Gilmore Marvin

Erected by the citizens of Elmira

as a memorial to

Ross Gilmore Marvin

Student - Teacher - Explorere

Born in Elmira, New York

January Twenty Eighth 1880

A member of the Peary Expedition of 1905-06

Scientist to the 1908-09 Peary Polar Expedition

which discovered the North Pole

Lost in ...

Downs’ Cross Roads

Galena, Maryland

On this site stood the tavern erected by William Downs in 1763. Burned in 1893, George Washington stopped here in 1774 en route to and from the first Continental Congress. He traveled this road on his eight visits to ...

The Severn Crossroads Church

Built as a Methodist Church in 1861 and used as the Church Sanctuary & Sunday School for fifty years. Moved in 1896 from SE to NE corner of General’s Highway and Indian Landing roads, and dedicated in 1935 to Charles ...

Sherman Avenue Crossing

The original Sherman Avenue crossing over the Yahara River was a wooden bridge built by Leonard Farwell circa 1848. It was replaced in 1874. By 1904 the bridge consisted of steel beams, plates and rivets with a wooden plank deck. ...

Ross Granville Harrison

Ross Granville Harrison

Teacher – Scientist – Administrator

Professor of Zoology at

Yale University 1907 – 38

He was the discoverer of

the tissue-culture method

of studying the develop

mentof living organisms.

[ back ]

1870 – 1959

Ross Granville Harrison

and his wife

Ida Lange Harrison

1874 - 1967

Marker can be reached ...

Fourth Crossing

Located on the Stockton-Murphy Road at the fourth crossing of the Calaveras River, this early mining settlement, once called Foremans, was famous in the 1850's for its rich placer ores. Later, it became an important stage and freighting depot and ...

Rector’s Crossroads

They Did Their Job

(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon Line into ...

A Crossroads of American History

The Frederick Square Corner

The Square Corner, at the intersection of Patrick and Market Streets, has long been the commercial and financial heart of Frederick. It is here that the National Road meets several important north-south roads that lead to Pennsylvania, ...