Margaret Fry

This plaque is dedicated to the memory of Margaret Fry, an early pioneer woman. Margaret was born March 27, 1802 and moved to the Dayton area in 1824 or 1825. She was first married to Levi Dickson, who died June ...

Point of Fork

Four miles southeast is Point of Fork, near which an Indian village stood in 1607. In the Revolution a state arsenal was there. In June, 1781, Simcoe, sent by Cornwallis with a small force to destroy the stores there, succeeded ...

Fort Blair Breastworks

The breastworks that enclosed Ft. Blair measured 80 feet by 100 feet. A trench, called a rifle pit, encircled the breastworks on the inside. The dirt that was extracted to create the rifle pits was then piled outside the walls ...

R. A. Fessenden

Inventor. Pioneer in radio communication, conducted wireless experiments, 1901-02, from a station, 600 yds. S. W.

Marker can be reached from U.S. 64/264.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Shifting Ground

During most of the Civil War (1861-1865), Charles City County lay between two armies: the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia safeguarding the Confederate capital of Richmond and the Union Army of the Potomac occupying the Lower Peninsula. As a result, ...

Federal Signal Station

July 22, 1864. When 15th A.C. troops moved W. from line (at Candler St.) to the vacated Confederate line at the Troup Hurt house (at DeGress Ave.), a signal station was established by Lt. Samuel Edge in a tall pine ...

Action of Nance's Shop

In this vicinity the Union cavalryman, Gregg, guarding army trains moving to Petersburg, was attacked by Wade Hampton, June 24, 1864. Gregg was driven back toward Charles City Courthouse, but the wagon trains crossed the James safely. This action closed ...

Thomas Jefferson Rusk

Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas, Brigadier General of the Army and hero at San Jacinto, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas, United States Senator, he ...

Frontier Justice

On this site, Bridgeport's most sensational court trial occurred June 9th, 1891. Ah Quong Tai, a local Chinese businessman accused of the cannibalistic murder of Poker Tom, a well known Paiute Indian, appeared in court defended by two attorneys, J.C. ...

The First Stone House

1835 • 1916

[symbol of the D.A.R.]

The first stone house erected in the State

of Minnesota by its first Governor,

Gen. Henry Hastings Sibley.

Secured in 1910 for the St. Paul Chapter,

Daughters of the American Revolution

from St. Peter's Parish of Mendota

— by —

Mrs. ...