Watauga Fort

400 yards northward and ½ mile northeast of the mouth of Gap Creek, stood Watauga Fort. Here, July 21, 1776, the settlers under Captain James Robertson repulsed the Cherokees under Old Abraham of Chilhowee, and Lt. John Sevier rescued “Bonny ...

Craycraft Block

Built by Daniel Craycraft in 1889, this Queen Anne building housed Meade Vestal's law office. Vestal was a prominent Democraft and Circuit Court judge. The second floor loggia is unique for a commercial building.

Marker is on Logan Street, on the ...

Fredericksburg Campaign, December 1862

The Battle of Fredericksburg began on the morning of December 11, 1862, when Confederate sharpshooters opened fire on Federal engineers building a pontoon bridge by which the Union Army of the Potomac planned to cross the Rappahannock River. Fredericksburg's defenders ...

Confederate Battery Position

This battery was one of several cavalry outposts maintained by Wheeler`s Cavalry (CS) to watch the ferries and fords along the Chattahoochee River in 1864. The battery position consisted of a single piece of light artillery protected by strong earthworks. ...

Progenitors of Independence

This monument is dedicated to the members of the British expeditionary forces stationed at Fort Edward and Rogers Island during the French and Indian Wars. 1755 - 1763

-Progenitors of Independence-

Marker is on Rogers Island Road 0.3 miles south ...

Beattie E. Huff Highway

That part of U.S. 25

between Saluda Dam Road

and U.S. 276

Named in 1986 by action

of the General Assembly

and highway commission

in recognition of his

24 years of dedicated

service to Greenville

County and South Carolina

as a member of the

House of Representatives

1961-1984

Marker is at the intersection ...

McKim, Meade & White, Architects of Governors Island

Governors Island

The design and layout of Governors Island National Historic District owes much of its development to changing times and roles. From early Dutch settlement to its incarnations as a military base to the US Army and the Coast ...

The first steam-powered locomotive reached Cheyenne on November

Side A

By 1868 the community boasted 3,000 to 4,000 residents, plus business, schools, churches and newspapers. The UP's stone roundhouse was the first permanent structure (non-wood) built in town. The City's phenomenal growth produced its nickname, "The Magic City of ...

Historic Freedom Plains Church

Town of La Grange

Historic

Freedom Plains Church

- ( Presbyterian ) –

Built 1828 – Restored 1970

Chapel 1914 – Community Hall

Education Building 1956

1973 – Women's

Republican Club

Marker is at the intersection of Freedom Plains Road ...

200th Anniversary of Washington’s Inspection

This commemorative tablet

erected and dedicated in observance of

the 200th anniversary of

General George Washington’s inspection

to Fort Ticonderoga and the Champlain Valley.

July 1783                            July ...