Matt W. Ransom

Confederate General, United States Senator, 1872-95, and Minister to Mexico. Home stands 800 yards south.

Marker is on U.S. 158 2.8 miles west of Barrows Mill Road, on the left when traveling west.

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Sayerville

Log blockhouse stood here.

Home of Daniel Sayer 1768

until his stone house was

built 1783. Sayer homestead

for five generations.

Marker is on New York Route 17A, on the left when traveling east.

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St. Francis Xavier Church

“Old Bohemia”

? 2 Miles ? Founded 1704 by Rev. Thomas Mansell, S.J., one of the earliest permanent Catholic establishments in the English Colonies.

Bohemia Academy Founded 1745 by Rev. Thomas Pulton, S.J. attended by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signed ...

George M. Bowman

1891 - 1984

This Water Tower is dedicated to George M. Bowman in recognition for thirty-six years of dedicated service to the City of Fresno and for his accomplishments as a naval officer. He was the city's first chief engineer and ...

Sir Archie

Foundation sire of American Thoroughbred race horses, including Timoleon, Boston, Lexington, & Man O'War. Died at Mowfield, one mile north, in 1833.

Marker is on U.S. 158 1.3 miles from Barrows Mill Road, on the left.

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Calmes Tomb

This stone mausoleum was built in family cemetery of “Caneland” plantation by Gen. Marquis Calmes, a friend of Lafayette during Amer. Revolution. Calmes (1755 – 1834), born in Va. of Huguenot ancestry, assisted in laying out Versailles and named it ...

James Rumsey

The inventor of the steam boat was born 1743 two miles north of this point in “Middle Neck”. George Washington showed much interest in Rumsey’s experiments and made him superintendent of “The Potomac Company.”

Marker is at the intersection of Cecilton-Warwick ...

B.B. Clarke

First known as Monona Park when it was established in 1902, then Spaight Street Park, this park was renamed in 1929 for Bascom B. Clarke (1851-1929), a Madison businessman. He was a founder of the Dane County Telephone Company, publisher ...

The 20th Corps

On Nov. 29, 1864, Jackson`s and Geary's divisions, 20th Corps (Williams), of Gen. Sherman's army, destroyed the railroad from Spier's Turnout (Bartow), No. 11, CRR, through Bethany (Wadley), No. 10 1/2, CRR, to the Ogeechee River. next morning, both the ...

Hemp in Kentucky / Woodford County Hemp

Side One

Hemp in Kentucky:

First crop grown 1775. From 1840 to 1860, Ky. Production largest in U.S. Peak in 1850 was 40,000 tons, value of $5,000,000. Scores of factories made twine, rope, gunny sacks, bags for cotton picking and marketing. State’s ...