Generations Have Enjoyed this View

I cannot conceive of anyone passing this way who will not avail himself of taking this trail to the top of Pinnacle Mountain...there will be many pilgrimages...[to] this historic spot... The beauty of the mountains, the spirit of the pioneer ...

Mattaponi Indians

Two miles east is the Mattaponi Indian reservation, home of descendants of the great chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas. The reservation is situated on the Mattaponi River and is one of the oldest Indian reservations in the United States, existing ...

Relatives of Elizabeth Bayley Seton

In Memory of the Relatives of

Elizabeth Bayley Seton who are buried in this churchyard

Reverend Richard Charlon, D.D.

her grandfather,

Rector of St. Andrew’s Church from 1747 until is death in 1777.

Mary Bayeux Charlton,

her grandmother,

Wife of Reverend Richard Charlton, date of death unknown.

Dr. ...

Confederate Monument - Eastville, VA

Erected by the Harmanson-West Camp Confederate Veterans, The Daughters of the Confederacy and the citizens of the Eastern Shore of Virginia; to the soldiers of the Confederacy from Northampton and Accomack Counties. They died bravely in war, or in peace ...

University of Nebraska at Kearney

In 1903 the legislature appropriated $50,000 to establish a state normal school in central or western Nebraska. After 111 ballots, the State Board of Education chose Kearney as the site. The city donated twenty acres on the west edge of ...

The Crash at Crush

(0.5 Mi. E)

A head-on collision between two locomotives was staged on Sept. 15, 1896, as a publicity stunt for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad. Over 30,000 spectators gathered at the crash site, named "Crush" for MKT passenger agent William ...

Site of Tidewater Institute

(1907 - 1935)

Tidewater Institute was incorporated in 1903 with the stated purpose of establishing an industrial, academic, collegiate, and seminary boarding school for the education of black youth. Founded by the Rev. George E. Reid, and supported by the Northampton/Accomack ...

The Battle of Kettle Creek

(Side 1)

On this hill the Fourteenth Day of February 1779 the Battle of Kettle Creek was fought

(Side 2)

This battle of the American Revolution in which the British were severely defeated checked their invasion of Georgia

(Side 3)

The victorious American forces were ...

The Battle Around the Redoubts

Brigadier General George Clinton, the Governor of New York State, commanded Fort Montgomery during the battle of October 6, 1777. Aware the British were approaching, he ordered some of his men to take a 3-pounder cannon down the western road ...

Deep Eddy Bathing Beach

Swedish immigrant Charles Johnson built a large home for his family on 39 acres of land in this vicinity in the 1850s. In 1902 two of his children, Mary and Henry, opened Deep Eddy Resort. The Johnsons named the park ...