A.K. Smiley Public Library

Albert K. Smiley, a leader of the city's library movement, donated this building and park to the citizens of Redlands in 1898. Through his generosity, Redlands was given one of California's few privately funded libraries of that era. In 1906, ...

USCGC White Alder

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USCGC WHITE ALDER/WLM-541

7 December 1968

In memory and honor

of those shipmates who loyally served

the United States Coast Guard

onboard the CGC WHITE ALDER.

They gave they gave the ultimate sacrifice.

On December 7, 1968, the USCGC WHITE ALDER, a

132 foot buoy tender, had ...

Welbourne

One mile northwest stands Welbourne (ca. 1770), which has housed members of the same family since the 1830s. It is a significant example of a late-18th-century stone farmhouse that evolved into an imposing mansion. Welbourne was the home of Col. ...

Yorktown

The “old town” which you enter here is ringed by stout Civil War entrenchments built on top of the British works of 1781. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welchmen, Hessians, and Loyalist Americans were quartered here while besieged by American-French forces under Washington.

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Battle of Middleburg

Here, on 19 June 1863, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry fought Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg’s Union cavalry division. Screening the march of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia through the Shenandoah Valley to invade Pennsylvania, Stuart formed ...

The Weighlock Building

1850-1915

This Greek-revival building was one of several weigh stations along the Canal used to levy the tolls for barges carrying merchandise and farm goods.

Until 1850 freight cargoes were measured by the displacement theory, but this hydraulic type worked with scales ...

“Partridge Hill”

Built c. 1760

Home of Henry Hollingsworth, merchant, legislator and colonel of Elk Battalion of Militia in Revolutionary Way as Commissary for the Eastern Shore. He obtained supplies for the Americans and French allies embarking near here in 1781 on voyage ...

Kimberly Crest

Mary Kimberly Shirk, an advocate for women's education and acting president of Scripps College during World War II, made a gift of her home, Kimberly Crest, to the people of Redlands. The house, an excellent example of Chateauesque architecture designed ...

Marquis de Lafayette and His Division

1781 Siege of Yorktown

“Here we are at last … before Yorktown, and our operations will soon be noisy.”

Marquis de Lafayette, Camp before Yorktown, September 30, 1781

In April 1781, with a developing British military campaign in Virginia, Washington sent the Marquis ...

Prince Edward County / Nottoway County

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Prince Edward County

Area 356 square miles

Formed in 1753 from Amelia, and named for Prince Edward, son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and younger brother of King George III. General Joseph E. Johnston was born in this county; Hampden-Sydney College is ...