Gaines’s Crossroads

“The Animal Must Be Very Slim”

(Preface): After Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s stunning victory at Chancellorsville in May 1863, he led the Army of Northern Virginia west to the Shenandoah Valley, then north through central Maryland and across the Mason-Dixon ...

Crossover Island

Established in 1848 on Rock Island. Whale oil lamps used first. Kerosene used later, then batteries. Station discontinued in April 1941.

Marker is on New York Route 12.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Church of the Cross

The National Register

Of Historic Places

Church of the Cross

South Carolina Department

of Archives

and History

Marker is on Calhoun Street near Pope Lane, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Commemorate the 1st crossing from east to west and the 1st doubl

To commemorate the first crossing from east to west and the first double crossing of the Atlantic by air accomplished by the British airship R34

which left East Fortune Scotland on July 2nd 1919, landed Mineola Long Island on July ...

Santa Fe Trail Crossed Here

D.A.R. Marker is near the site of

the Baden Post Office

which had intermittent existence

between 1883 and 1891.

Simmons Point,

a stagecoach relay station,

was 2 ½ miles east on the Old Trail.

Marker is on U.S. 56, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

The Navy Cross

Our Waterbury Heroes

It is our nation’s second highest military honor, awarded to three men from Waterbury. Let no one forget their personal valor, their courage, and their devotion to duty.

Cpl. John J. Spillane

U.S. Marine Corps, Company A, 2d Amphibian Tractor

Battalion, ...

Creating Crossroads of Commerce

Ohio & Erie Canalway

You are near "Hall's Corners," the center of Akron's first business district, named after the general store that once stood at the corner of Market and Howard streets. Across Market Street from where you are standing, was ...

Beason's (Beeson's) Crossing

Benjamin Beason, one of Stephen F. Austin's original 300 colonists, settled by a widely used Colorado River crossing near here in 1822. He and his wife Elizabeth proceeded to build a large home (also used as an inn) and established ...

Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba

Hourglass-shaped pass through the hills were McDougal Creek joins San Saba River. For years a favored Indian campground, it entered written history, 1732, as site of Spanish-Apache battle.

Saw passage of adventurers, mustang hunters, Indian fighters, German settlers, gold-seekers.

Probably named by ...

Crossing the Savannah

Although the Savannah River provided an avenue to the sea, it also presented a barrier to overland travel and transportation. Rochester Ferry, later named Screven's Ferry, was established in 1762 and connected Savannah with a roadway in South Carolina. This ...