First Shelterbelt in the United States

During the 1930s severe drought plagued the states in the great plains and deepened the depression. High winds caused dust storms which blackened the sky. In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a program to help stabilize the blowing soil and ...

Pratt Hall

This building constructed in 1912

is named in honor of

Dr. and Mrs. R.N. Pratt

Outstanding Teachers

at Anderson College

Dr. Pratt - 1922-1927

Mrs. Pratt - 1922-1946

Marker can be reached from Boulevard.

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Bellfield Plantation

The Bellfield house site and graveyard are located some 300 yards to the east. This was the home of two early Virginia governors, Captain John West in 1632 and Edward Digges who bought the property from West in 1650. Here ...

Battle of Great Bridge

In this vicinity, in 1775, was the southern end of a causeway, with bridges, by which the swamp and stream were crossed. Here William Woodford's Virginia riflemen defended the passage. When Lord Dunmore's British regulars attempted to cross the swamp ...

Hodgson Brothers Store and Boatways

Alexander R. Hodgson, H.U. Hodgson and John Edwin Hodgson, brothers, together with their families,came to Eau Gallie about 1883. they founded the Hodgson Brothers mercantile business at this

location in the 1890s. they later added a marine

ways and machine ...

Washington at the Wayside Inn

Washington

Passed This Place

On His Way to

Cambridge

To Take Command

of the

Patriot Army

June 1775 July

Marker is on Wayside Inn Road ¼ mile west of Boston Post Road (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling west.

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Watering Fountains

During the late 1800’s, the City of Charlottesville installed four watering fountains in the downtown area. The fountains were designed to provide water to the citizens, their horses and other domesticated animals. Water was provided by the City water system ...

First Bridge over Pawcatuck River

Near this spot was the ford or Indian trail used until the building of the first bridge over Pawcatuck River about 1712.

Marker is on Broad Street (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling east.

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Pawcatuck River

Pawcatuck River mentioned as the western boundary of Rhode Island in the charter of 1663

Marker is on Broad Street (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling east.

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Sussex County Confederate Monument

(front)

Our Confederate Soldiers

“The principles for which they fought live eternally.”

(rear)

List of companies organized in

and sent out from Sussex County:

Co.A, 41st Va. Reg’t, Infantry,

“Sussex Sharp Shooters”;

Co.D, 13th Va. Reg’t, Cavalry;

Co.E, 16th Va. Reg’t, Infantry;

Co.F, 41st Va. Reg’t, Artillery,

Wise’s Legion;

Co.H, 13th Va. ...