Bucklands Station Famous Historical Point

On Central Overland Route For Supplies to Emigrants, Pony Express, Stage Coaches, Ranches & Travelers, from 1859 to 1900's

Marker can be reached from Alternate U.S. 95 8.5 miles from U.S. 50.

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Upbeat

From 1964 to 1971, the WEWS studios were home to Upbeat, one of America's premier music television shows.

From the first TV appearance of Simon & Garfunkel , to the last by Otis Redding, virtually every major rock, soul, jazz, ...

Sulphur Springs

This valley owes its name to the two springs located one mile north of this monument. From 400 A.D. to 1450 A.D. Indigenous Indians farmed the region. Their bedrock mortar pits remain on the nearby hill. Later Chiricahua Apaches, Spaniards, ...

Heritage Park

Located within Daniel Pratt Historic District, this park overlooks Autauga Creek and the manufacturing complex around which this New England style village developed. Daniel Pratt founded Prattville in 1839, and patterned the town after those of his native New Hampshire. ...

Dismal Swamp Canal

Connects Albemarle Sound with Chesapeake Bay. Begun 1790; in use by War of 1812.

Marker is on Mullen Street north of Main Street (U.S. 17), on the left when traveling north.

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Sparta Cemetery

Set apart by Col. Philipse.

Graves of Rev. soldiers.

Cannon fire hit tombstone.

First site of Pres. Church

moved to Sing Sing 1800

Marker is on Albany Post Road (U.S. 9) north of Revolutionary Road, on the right when traveling ...

Daniel Pratt Cemetery / George Cooke

(Front):

Daniel Pratt CemeteryFinal resting place of early Alabama industrialist Daniel Pratt, 1799-1873, and wife Esther Ticknor Pratt, 1803-1875. He was from New Hampshire and she, Connecticut. Married 1827 at Fortville, Jones County, Georgia.

The former carpenter’s apprentice practiced his craft in ...

Birthplace of John L. Worden 1818-1897

Rear Admiral U.S. Navy

Commanded “Monitor” against

“Merrimac” Hampton Roads,

Virginia, March 9, 1862

Marker is on Albany Post Road (U.S. 9) south of Scarborough Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Post Hannock House

Owner operated Kings Ferry

1664, Colonel Livingston’s

Headquarters, 1781. Washington

presented medals to captors

of Major Andre here in 1782.

Marker is on Kings Ferry Road, on the right when traveling west.

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Mount Moriah Baptist Church

The members of Mount Moriah Baptist Church belong to one of the region's earliest African American congregations, originating in a Sunday school for slaves established in the mid-1800s by Dr. Charles L. Cocke, founder of Hollins College. The group gained ...