Wapatomica

Site of the Shawnee Village

Destroyed in 1786 by Gen. Logan. Home of Chief Black Hoof. Simon Kenton ran the gantlet here in 1778. General council of 7 Indian Nations was held here in 1782.

Marker is on County Route 5 0.1 ...

Expanding the House

The first house here, built in 1831-32 by James Dickey, stood only 1 1/2-stories tall. In 1876, Congressman James A. Garfield bought the Dickey farm and, in 1880, had the house extensively remodeled. By raising its roof and expanding its ...

New Haven Trap Rock Company #43

The Vulcan Iron Works built engine #43, an industrial saddle tank 0-4-0T switcher, in 1919. The engine was purchased by C.W. Blakeslee and Sons out of New Haven, Connecticut, for work at their New Haven Trap Rock Company quarry.

At ...

Randolph-Macon Medical School

Just to the west was the medical school of John Peter Mettauer, which became a branch of Randolph-Macon College in 1847. It was discontinued, probably in 1861. Dr. Mettauer, one of the leading surgeons of the day, practiced until his ...

McPherson Playhouse

Dedicated 26th, February 1965

Named in Honour of

Thomas Shanks McPherson

Born Airdrie, Scotland, prominent business man, philanthropist and citizen of Victoria for fifty-three years, who died at the age of 89 years on 3rd, December 1962, and under whose will a ...

Victoria Fire Department Headquarters

1899 -1959

You are near the site of the Victoria Fire Department Headquarters, which served downtown Victoria from 1899 to 1959.

History

Victoria’s central business district grew dramatically during the 1880s and 1890s. More “modern’ buildings in size and value signalled [sic] a ...

St. Paul's, Stono / St. Paul's Churchyard

St. Paul's, Stono

St. Paul’s Parish, one of the ten original parishes of colonial S.C., was created by the Church Act of 1706. The first parish church was built in 1708 on a bluff overlooking the Stono River. The parsonage ...

Japanese Internment

On April 22, 1942, 273 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry were exiled from their homes in the Greater Victoria area. None of the survivors of this event ever returned to Victoria to re-establish a home.

On August 4, 1992, ...

Transportation, Growth, and Development

Columbus was founded specifically for the purpose of being the state capital in 1812, and was selected primarily due to its location - near the center of the state. But a lack of transportation options restricted access to town. For ...

Shop/Warehouse

Built 1883

This two-story brick building in the Italianate style was one of several shop/warehouses in Victoria’s warehouse district. Originally occupied by W.J. Jeffree, pioneer clothier, the building later housed F.R. Stewart & Co. Provisioners.

The historic photograph shows boxes and local ...