Bloomsbury Catholic Church

Saint Joachim's Replacement

This church is the direct replacement for the same parish community of Saint Joachim's Church, West Portal, New Jersey, destroyed by fire February 5, 1944.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

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John H. Eaton

1790-1856

Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson; U.S. Senator from Tenn.; Fla. governor; U.S. minister to Spain. Born here.

Marker is on King Street 0 miles south of St. David Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Lord Stirling Estate

This parkland includes part

of Stirling’s 1762 estate.

Stirling (1726-83), a friend

of George Washington, was a

Revolutionary War

Major General.

Marker is at the intersection of S Maple Avenue and Lord Stirling Road, on the left when traveling south on S Maple Avenue.

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Confederate Cabinet

With President Davis

held last full meetings

April 22-26, 1865

in a house which was

located here.

Marker is at the intersection of North Tyron Street and East 11th Street on North Tyron Street.

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Stokes State Forest

Governor Edward C. Stokes established the Board of Forest Park Reservations in 1905. The new forestry commission acquired 5,432 acres on Kittatinny Mountain in 1907 to create the E. C. Stokes Reserve.

Stokes State Forest grew to 12,429 acres by 1933 ...

North Carolina Confederate Dead

N.C.

Confederate

Dead

Marker is at the intersection of Mt Hebron Drive and Confederate Cemetery Drive, on the left when traveling east on Mt Hebron Drive.

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Battery C, First West Virginia Artillery

Erected by the State of

West Virginia

to commemorate the

valor and fidelity

of Battery C

First West Virginia Artillery

Marker can be reached from Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling north.

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Birthplace of Roger Atkinson Pryor

Nearby is Montrose, the birthplace of Roger Atkinson Pryor, born 19 July 1828. Pryor practiced law before becoming a journalist and briefly owned newspapers in Richmond and Washington, D.C., in the 1850s. He served his Virginia district in the U.S. ...

Sallie Jones Atkinson

1860-1943

Sallie Jones Atkinson, prominent educator and community leader in Dinwiddie County and her husband, John Pryor Atkinson, gave the land on which Sunnyside High School was built in 1911. By her vision, tireless industry, and determination, the school became the ...

Naval Station

1823 - 1974

Commodore David Porter established a Naval Station here on April 3, 1823 as a Supply Base for his 17-ship Anti-Pirate Squadron. The Station remained in constant operation from that date until its disestablishment on March 31, 1974. Although ...