To Gwynn's Island

Two miles east is Toddsbury, home of the Todd family, built in 1722. Farther east, in Mathews County, are the old homes, Green Plains, Auburn, and Midlothian. Some miles beyond them is Gwynn's Island, where General Andrew Lewis drove the ...

Wing Dams

Those piles of stone and brush in the river, known as wing dams, are both cursed and praised by many a recreation boater. Lurking beneath the water near propeller depth, thousands of these jetties are located along the mainstem of ...

Occupation of the Summit of Lookout.

Nov. 25th. 1863.

No Union troops reached the top of the Mountain during the Battle of Lookout. The Confederates began to withdraw from from the summit at 7 P.M. of the 24th, and completed the retirement about 9 o'clock, and ...

Monument to a Century of Flight

[Marker Front]:

Dedicated on November 8, 2003

In celebration of the soaring of the human spirit

Created by artists

Glen Eure, Hanna Jubran, Jodi Hollnagel Jubran

Architect - Benjamin B. Cahoon

and presented as an enduring legacy by

Icarus International, ...

Harris County Boys' School Archeological Site

In this vicinity lies evidence of a prehistoric Indian campsite and burial ground that takes its current name from the property on which it resided at the time of its discovery. The archeological site is classified as a shell midden ...

Indian Fights

In the summer of 1836, a company of militia under Capt. Levi J. Knight of near Ray City was sent to protect the settlers from marauding Indians on their way to join the Seminoles in Florida. When a party of ...

Governor John Page

John Page, planter, scholar, and Revolutionary patriot, was born in 1743 at Rosewell, three miles west of here. He attended the College of William and Mary with Thomas Jefferson. The two men developed a lifelong friendship and shared an interest ...

History of Locust Fork

While traveling south with his troops, General Andrew Jackson camped at the fork of the river in 1813. General Jackson carved his name in a locust tree naming this area Locust Fork. In 1817, the Hanby family came from Virginia ...

Marais Du Cygne Martyrs Memorial

(Front):

Rev. B. L. Read

John F. Campbell

William Colpetzer

Michael Robertson

Patrick Ross

William Hairgrove

Asa Hairgrove

Charles Snider

William A Stilwell

Amos Hall

Austin Hall

(Side 2):

On the 19th day of May 1858, the men whose names

Luther Samuel Payne

1888-1974

This marker is placed

in greatful appreciation

for the persistent actions

of Mr. Payne, a rural mail

carrier 1913-53, that resulted

in the upgrading and improve-

ments of this road, for the

benefit of all citizens

who use it.