Great Western Depot

Throngs give big sendoff to Lincoln Monday morning

February 11, 1861 dawned dismal and gray. A chilling drizzle soakedthe dirt roads of the capital. At 7:30 A.M., a carriage pulled up here in front of the depot, and President-elect Lincoln climbed ...

Mechanicsburg Gap / Col. Claudius Crozet

Mechanicsburg Gap

Scenic canyon cut through Mill Creek Mountain by Mill creek. Here an old Indian trail was the pathway from the Valley of Virginia to the Alleghenies, then the Northwestern Turnpike, now the George Washington Highway

Col. Claudius Crozet

Col. Crozet, born ...

Custer Camped Here

General George Armstrong Custer Encampment

Custer Camped Here

June 23, 1876

Marker is on Montana Route 39 11.9 miles north of U.S. 212, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Liberty Hall Plantation

Marker Front:

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 ...

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

Marker Front:

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 ...

Mule Pass

Front of obelisk

Road Constructed by

Prison Labor 1913-14

Board of Control

Geo. W.P. Hunt Governor

C. Callaghan Auditor

U.R. Osburn Member

R.E. Sims Supt of Prison

Lamar Orb

State Engineer

Right side of obelisk

Continental Divide

Elev. 6030

Left side of obelisk

Cochise County

Board of Supervisors

A. Hickey Chrmn

WM. Riggs

J. Rock

Marker is ...

Hampshire County World War I Memorial

In honor of Hampshire's sons who gave their lives and their service in the World War

"We are the dead,

Short days ago we lived,

Felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved."

Lieut. Robert W. Gilkeson • Corp. James Cleveland Lee • Corp. ...

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 ...