Confederate Decoration Day

Began here, April 25, 1866, with first annual placing of flowers on graves of Blue and Gray. Idea originated at meeting in Twelve Gables home of Miss Matt Morton.

Marker is on 3rd Street South near 3rd Avenue South.

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Cheat Summit Camp

Also called Fort Milroy. Fortified camp in gap at the crest of White Top of Cheat Mountain. Occupied by Federal troops during fall and winter of 1861-1862; repulsed threats in Lee's mountain campaign of 1861. Fort's command of the Parkersburg-Staunton ...

Tyree's Plantation

After a detachment of the Marquis de Lafayette's army defeated Maj. John G. Simcoe's cavalry at Spencer's Ordinary near Williamsburg on 26 June 1781, Lafayette shadowed the British army encamped at the colonial capital. He made his headquarters just north ...

The Paramount Theatre

The Paramount Theatre is listed on

the National Register of Historic Places.

It opened September 14th, 1929

as Austin's grand first run movie theatre.

It is owned by Austin Area Commission for the Arts, Inc.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Kansas Indian Reservations

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, many different Indian nations occupied what is now the United States. European settlement gradually resulted in many of these native peoples being pushed to the west.

In 1825 the U.S. government resolved ...

State Game Farm

The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries established the first Virginia State Game Farm nearby in 1920. The state initially raised quail in captivity there to restock the birds throughout Virginia. The game farm was one of the earliest state ...

Dan Patch

[Marker Text, Side 1]:

Standard-bred colt (sire Joe Patchen, dam Zelica) foaled 1896 Oxford, Benton County; raised by Daniel A. Messner, Jr. on this farm. A natural pacer, trained for harness racing, a very popular sport in late 1800's and early ...

A Gathering Storm

North

By the end of July 1777, the British invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne had progressed to Fort Edward on the Hudson River. Desperately in need of supplies, Burgoyne dispatched an expedition on August 11 under Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich ...

Continental Army Encampment at Morristown

1777 1781

The Artillery Park

The artillery under Gen. Henry Knox and the artificers under Col. Jeduthan Baldwin were encamped on this hillside during 1779-80. The soldiers were housed in huts. The guns were parked along this road. The horses were pastured ...

Vails Gate, N.Y.

Named after John D. Vail the

postmaster & toll gate keeper

for the Blooming Grove Turnpike

Company, was formerly known as

Mortonville and Tookers Gate

prior to 1850.

Marker is on Blooming Grove Turnpike (New York Route 94), on the right when traveling west.

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