Bright Leaf Tobacco

In 1850s on a farm in this area Abisha Slade perfected a process for curing yellow tobacco. His slave Stephen discovered process in 1839.

Marker is at the intersection of Blanch Road (North Carolina Route 1523) and Bertha Wilson Road (North ...

Griers Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1753. Rev. Hugh McAden served as its first minister. Present building dates from 1856. Stands 1 mi. E.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 119 and Griers Church Road on U.S. 119.

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Liberty Hall Plantation

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This inland rice plantation has its origins in a 1683 grant. In 1726 Nathaniel Moore and his wife sold a 900-acre parcel to Isaac Mazyck (d. 1736). Mazyck’s son Benjamin (d. 1800), a rice planter, cattleman, and merchant, consolidated ...

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 ...

Carrier-Based A-6 Intruder

In Loving Memory of

The Carrier-Based A-6 Intruder Airmen

Who made the supreme sacrifice while flying

combat missions during the Vietnam War, The

War on terrorism, and the Persian Gulf War

Vietnam War

U.S.S. Midway CV-41

Lt. Robert A, Clark, ...

The Republican River Flood Of 1935

On May 30, 1935, torrential rains fell in eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska; by early morning of the 31st, the usually peaceful Republican River was running bluff-to-bluff along its upper reaches. When the waters subsided two days later, over 100 ...

Fort Ashby

Fort Ashby, one in the chain of Indian forts built by George Washington, 1755. sharp fighting here 1756. in 1794, troops under Gen. Daniel Morgan camped here on their way to suppress Whiskey Rebellion. Fort restored by W.P.A., 1939.

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Fort Ashby

Fort Ashby, one in the chain of Indian forts built by George Washington, 1755. sharp fighting here 1756. in 1794, troops under Gen. Daniel Morgan camped here on their way to suppress Whiskey Rebellion. Fort restored by W.P.A., 1939.

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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 ...