Head Gates and Inner Basin

These brick-lined archways, or "head gates," built around 1850, once controlled much of the island's waterpower. From here, a "wing dam" extended across the Shenandoah River, funneling water through the arches and into the inner basin. A gate at the ...

Water Tunnels

Tunnels increased power. Here water from the inner basin, located off to your right, flowed through a series of underground passages. With openings smaller at the downstream end - like a nozzle on a garden hose - these tunnels increased ...

First People in the Gallatin Valley

To the Headwaters

For centuries distant and diverse tribes visited the Gallatin Valley to hunt. They stampeded buffalo over cliffs during the "dog days" before the acquisition of horses and guns. They hunted animals for food, clothing and shelter. They also ...

Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station

The Georgia Railway and Power Company, predecessor of Georgia Power, built this trolley waiting station in 1923. The waiting station served Druid Hills residential development when the streetcar line on Ponce de Leon Avenue was extended from downtown to East ...

Confederate Burial Trench

(Stone monument)

To the Confederate Dead

in the Trenches

Erected by the U.D.C.

A.D. 1917

(Metal Tablet)

Burial Place

Confederate Soldiers

Shiloh

1862

(Bronze marker)

Unknown Soldier

Confederate States Army

Marker is on Loop road to Confederate Burial Trench 0.1 miles west of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Watertown

The local Paugasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738 and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown, and soon ...

Village of McGuffey / Great 1934 Onion Strike

Side A: Village of McGuffey

The Village of McGuffey was named for John McGuffey, who in the 1860s first attempted to drain the Scioto Marsh. A larger and more effective drainage effort, made by others who entered Hardin County in the ...

Italians at the Yuma Test Branch

During World War II, the Yuma proving ground of the United States Army Corps of Engineers was known as the Yuma Test Branch, which was used as a floating-bridge test facility. By 1944, more allied troops support was needed to ...

Liberty Presbyterian Church / Nathan Carpenter

[Side A:]

LIBERTY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

FOUNDED IN 1810

The first religious society organized in Liberty Township was formed in 1810 by Elders Thomas Cellar, Josiah McKinnie, and Leonard Monroe. Cellar and McKinnie came to Delaware in 1802. In 1820, The Elders and others ...

Beatrice Veterans Memorial Wall of Honor

I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag

We Answered the Call

United We Stand

Keepers of Freedom

[And Other Mottos]

[Honoree Plaques]

Dedicated May 30, 2005

Marker is at the intersection of South 6th Street (U.S. 77) and Veterans Memorial Drive, on the right when traveling south on ...