William L. Poteat

Wake Forest College president, 1905-1927. Champion of freedom of scientific thought. Birthplace and family home stands here.

Marker is on State Highway 62 1.2 miles north of State Highway 86, on the left when traveling north.

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Springfield Plantation

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Springfield Plantation, an inland rice plantation, was established here by Paul Mazyck (d. 1749), a planter and merchant who combined two large tracts on Foster Creek, a branch of Back River. His father Isaac, a French Huguenot planter, had ...

Saluda Old Town Treaty, July 2, 1755

"I bring a little child that he might tell future generations what is now agreed to."

At Old Saluda Town, about ten miles north of here, July 2, 1755, Governor Glen obtained from Old Hop and other chiefs of the Cherokee ...

Bissel's Store, Middlebury Station

At the site of Perrotti's West Street Pizza & Pub the trolley passed under Route 188 and then was moved from its original site at Westover School in 1908. The Bissell Store became the Ferrante and Delaney Store and was ...

Otranto Indigo Vat

Built 1750-1790 at Otranto Plantation and used to process dye from indigo, an important S.C. crop from 1747 to 1796. Moved here 1979.

Marker is on Brushy Park Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Otranto Plantation

Originally known as "Yeshoe," this plantation was granted in 1679 to Arthur Middleton, great-granduncle of the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Called "Otranto" after 1771, when it was bought by Dr. Alexander Garden, noted physician and botanist, for whom ...

The First National Bank of Jacksonville

Since 1890 the financial interests of this area have been served by The First National Bank and its predecessor The Tredagar National Bank (an institution of the "Boom" days of Jacksonville)

Organizers were Peyton Rowan, President, Jos. W. Burke (Brig. Gen. ...

The First National Bank and Trust Company of Western Maryland

was originally chartered as the Cumberland Bank of Alleghany by an act of the 1811 Maryland Legislature and opened for business April 1, 1812. this is the oldest bank in Western Maryland and the second oldest National Bank in the ...

What Did Abraham Lincoln Eat?

Today many people refer to gardening as a hobby, but in the mid-19th Century many families depended on a kitchen garden to enrich their diets with seasonal foods such as fruits, vegetables and herbs. This recreated 19th Century kitchen garden ...

Battlefield Historic Restoration Project

In 2004, Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park began a restoration project on the battlefield where you stand today. The objective of the effort is to return about 12 acres of the battlefield to its approximate appearance in 1861.

First hand ...