The Armed Forces from Clyde Town-ship

In Memory of the members of the armed forces from Clyde Town-ship who gave their lives for their country.

Erected by the Town of Clyde, its citizens, and the Chamber of Commerce.

World War I

PFC. Melvin Rhinehart

World War II

CPL Ernest Case • ...

Territorial Capitol of Colorado

1862 to 1867

This Tablet is the

property of the State of Colorado

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From 1862 to 1867

Golden was the Territorial

Capital of Colorado

Legislative sessions were held in this building (erected by W.A.H. Loveland) and in others, now demolished, across the street.

Golden

was named for Thomas ...

Shieldstown Bridge

Built in 1876 by J.J. Daniels

Burr Arch

Length 331 Ft. + 12 Ft. overhang/ends.

Width 16 ft. height 12ft.6in.

Cut stone abutments and pier.

Marker is on East County Road 200 North.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Woodbine Cemetery

The Soldiers’ Section

During the Civil War, Woodbine Cemetery was Harrisonburg’s principal burial ground. Chartered in March 1850, it opened later that year after the city’s first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, sold 2.5 acres of his property to the cemetery company. The ...

Rough Point & Its Neighbors: Preserved Houses

This part of Bellevue Avenue reflects the architectural variety of 19th century Newport houses, from the Gothic Revival and Second Empire French villas of the early 1850s to the Stick Style cottages of the 1870s and the Beaux Arts ...

Steamboats, Trains, and Barges

The Mississippi River has long been a major artery for trade and transportation.

For thousands of years, Indians traveled on the river by canoe. By the 1850s, rivertowns like Hastings boomed as steamboats brought settlers into the region. The steamboat era ...

Confederate General Hospital

Harrisonburg Female Academy

Harrisonburg was Rockingham County’s seat of government and largest town, and it was an ideal site for a hospital. When the Civil War began in 1861, although the railroad had not yet extended to Harrisonburg, the town sat ...

Here Lieth the Body of Sarah M. Crittenden

Wife of

Doct. John Crittenden

Who died 14th July 1835,

Aged 37.

She occupies the first

grave opened in this consecrated ground.

Leaving an affectionate

husband with six

weeping children.

Her infant Sarah M.

died on the 17th and lies

entombed in the 2nd grave

Aged 8 months and 17 days.

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This grave ...

The Middlebury Fire House

On this site in 1949 the volunteers of the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department, using donated and salvaged materials, built a fire station on land donated by the Vaszauskas family.

Pictured are the original 1941 Ford LaFrance, 1947 International tanker and ...

James Madison University

The university was founded in 1908, through the efforts of state senator George B. Keezell, of Rockingham County, as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg. In 1924 it became the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg, before ...