Escalante Trail

Father Silvestre Velez de Escalante with Father Dominguez and eight others, first white men to enter the Great Basin, left Santa Fe July 29, 1776 in attempt to reach Monterey. Abandoning attempt, party passed through Cedar Valley October 12 on ...

Old St. Luke's Church

Oldest Episcopal Church in southwestern Pennsylvania, founded after the French & Indian War by veteran Maj. William Lea on his land grant. Francis Reno was the first vicar. Church members included Gen. John Neville, the unpopular tax collector in 1794 ...

Mt. Pisgah – Mormon Pioneer Way Station/Chief Pied Riche Tells t

(front of main marker)

Mt. Pisgah - Mormon Pioneer Way Station

Between 300 and 400 Mormon pioneers perished here from 1846 to 1852. Having been driven from their homes by armed mobs, they stopped here on their westward trek, named it Mt. ...

Charlotte County Confederate Monument

1861-1865

Gloria Victis

Confederate soldiers

Charlotte County

cherishes the memory

of her heroes

Noble deeds

are a people’s inspiration

Erected under the auspices of

H.A. Carrington Camp C.V. No. 34.

August 27, 1901.

“Non sibl sed patriae.”

Marker is at the intersection of David Bruce Avenue (Virginia Route 40) and Legrande Avenue ...

Neville House

Known as Woodville. Built 1785 by Gen. John Neville; later occupied by his son, Col. Presley Neville. Refuge of Gen. Neville's family when some Whiskey Rebels burned his home at Bower Hill, July 17, 1794.

Marker is on Washington Pike (Pennsylvania ...

Henry and Randolph's Debate

Here, in March, 1799, took place the noted debate between Patrick Henry and John Randolph of Roanoke on the question of States' Rights. Henry denied the right of a state to oppose oppressive Federal laws. Randolph affirmed that right. This ...

Mica Splendor

With the building of Camp Sherman, the army leveled this mound-Mound 13-to three feet above ground and built a barrack over it. In 1920 Ohio archeologists led by William Mills excavated the mound and were astonished to uncover the cremated ...

Charlotte County Library

Beginning in 1937, Ambassador and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce anonymously gave money to 11 sites in Southside Virginia to build libraries. The Bruce libraries, as they were called, became the first public libraries to allow access to African Americans. ...

Mill Creek Zanja

Spanish missionaries introduced the principle of irrigation in San Bernardino Valley, thus opening the way to settlement. Franciscan Fathers engineered, and Indians dug, this first ditch (or "zanja") in 1819-20. In historical sequence the zanja supported the San Bernardino Asistencia, ...

Samuel N. Rogers, Sr.

Soldier of the American Revolution

Born on June 3, 1760, at Branford, Connecticut, Samuel N. Rogers, Sr., served several terms of enlistment with Captain Peck’s Company, Col. Roger Enos’ Regiment of the Connecticut Militia from 1777 to 1781. Following the war, ...