Dusenbery Mansion House

Circa 1792

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on Musconetcong River Road (County Route 645), on the right when traveling north.

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Near this Site in 1770

Nathan & Lydia Knight built a log cabin and became the First Settlers of Canaan Plantation which in 1802 was incorporated as Lincolnville

Marker is at the intersection of Belfast Road (Maine Route 52) and Joy Road, on the right when ...

Pioneer Cottage

Built in 1903, one year after county was organized, by settlers Wiley Vincent and wife Katie. This small early Texas cabin has 2 rooms. In 1907, huge prairie fire missed it by only 600 yards.

The cabin was bought in 1920 ...

Gray County

Formed from Young and Bexar

Territories

Created August 21, 1876

Organized May 27, 1902

Named in Honor of

Peter W. Gray

1819–1874

Member of the First Legislature

of Texas

Member of the Confederate Congress

Appointed to the Texas Supreme

Bench in 1874

County seat, Lefors, 1902

Pampa, since 1928

Marker is on East Frederick ...

Jonathan Child

First Mayor of Rochester, 1834-1835, Built the House in 1838 and lived here with his wife, Sophia Eliza Rochester Child, until 1850

Marker is on S. Washington, on the left when traveling north.

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Fort Donnally/Border Heroes

Fort Donnally

Built by Andrew Donnally a few miles north about 1771. Attack on this fort by 200 Indians in 1778 was second most important frontier engagement in the State. The fort was relieved by force under Colonel John Stuart.

Border ...

Abraham Vandal

Plaque One

Abraham Vandal

1758-1848

* Born in Dutchess, NY

* Soldier in the American Revolutionary War 1776-1781

* Married Mary Dillon 1780

* Father of Eight Children

* Early Fayetteville Settler

* In 1812 Abraham purchased 200 acres, including the present site of Fayetteville

Plaque Two

New York ...

Fayetteville

In the attack on Federal forces here, 1863. Milton W. Humphreys, the educator and soldier, gunner of Bryan's Battery, 13th Virginia Light Artillery, C.S.A., first used “indirect firing,” now in universal military use.

Marker is on North Court Street (West Virginia ...

Old Cahill School

[east side]

The Cahill Settlement was one of the early communities in the western half of Richfield Township. It was established in the 1850s by Irish immigrants fleeing famine in their native Ireland.

During the years of 1846, 1847 and 1848, the ...

Little Falls Road

Little Falls Road was originally a trail from the Indian villages at the head of Four Mile Run to the Potomac River fisheries just below the Little Falls. Later it was developed as a wagon road from the settlement at ...