Site of Manassas Junction

One mile west was the junction of the Orange and Alexandria and Manassas Gap Railroad lines. The point became known as Manassas Junction. During the Civil War both sides used the area as a supply base. The site of the ...

Captain John A. Sutter's Landing

[Main Marker]:

Captain John A. Sutter, after coming up the Sacramento River from Yerba Buena in August 1839, landed approximately two hundred feet north of here, at what was then the south bank of the American River. A short time thereafter ...

First Successful Cement Job

This Well, Hill No. 4

Spudded September 26, 1905, and completed April 30, 1906, is the first oil well in which a water shut-off was attained by pumping cement through the tubing and behind the casing--forerunner of the modern cementing technique.

It ...

Jenkins Fort

This stone marks the site of

"Jenkins Fort"

One of the Revolutionary defenses of

Wyoming against the invasion of the

British, Indians, and Tories.

Constructed - 1776 - Burned - 1778.

Erected by Dial Rock Chapter

Daughters of the American

Revolution, Oct 12 - 1900.

May the sacrifice and ...

James Birdseye McPherson

Dedicated to the memory of

James Birdseye McPherson

Born at Clyde, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1828,

Graduated from West Point, 1853;

Appoited Brevet Second Lieutenant of

Engineers 1853;

Appointed Captain Aug. 6, 1861;

Served in the field at the opening of the Civil War

Promoted to Brigadier General May ...

Jenkins' Fort

Stockaded home of John Jenkins. Built by Connecticut settlers, 1776. Surrendered to the British under Maj. John Butler, July 1, 1778, and was burned.

Marker is at the intersection of Wyoming Street (U.S. 11) and Exeter Avenue (State Highway 92), on ...

Major General Charles Griffin

Located 100 yards southeast of this marker is the boyhood home of Major General Charles Griffin. Born in 1825, he graduated from West Point in 1847 and rose to prominence during the Civil War. Griffin fought in most of the ...

Gen. J. E. B. Stuart’s Cavalry

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry on his raid around the Federal army, Oct. 19, 1862, crossed the National Road here after crossing the Potomac River at McCoy’s Ferry three miles south of this point.

Marker is at the intersection of National Pike ...

Major Samuel Comstock

In Memory Of

Major Samuel Comstock

1739 --- 1824

A Private

In The French and Indian War

A Captain In The Revolutionary War

July 1776 --- June 1783

Serving At

White Plains Germantown Fort Mifflin

Valley Forge Monmouth Yorktown

Commissioned Major October 10, 1783

His Wife

Mercy Mead

1741 - 1816

Marker can be ...

John A. Mather

Photographer of oil industry from 1860, lived in this house. His thousands of views form an extraordinary record of an industry that began here. Born, Bury, England, in 1829; died Titusville, 1915.

Marker is on East Main Street, on the left ...