Bruington Church

This is Bruington Church, organized in 1790. Here Robert Semple, one of the most noted Baptist ministers in Virginia, long served and here he is buried.

Marker is on The Trail (Virginia Route 14) 0.1 miles north of Pea Ridge Road, ...

Captain Peter DuBose

1755 - 1846

After serving in the militia under General Francis Marion during the Revolutionary War, this planter and patriot lived near here and operated a ferry, known as DuBose's Crossing, close by the present bridge over Lynches River. His grave ...

Gilbert Van Zandt

Port William is the birthplace of Gilbert Van Zandt, quite possibly the youngest enlistee in the Union Army during the Civil War. Born on December 20, 1851, "Little Gib" joined the ranks of Company D, 79th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Burlington Routes

1887 - Present

Side A

Incorporated as the Cheyenne & Burlington Railroad in March 1887, the 30-mile long Wyoming segment was a part of the larger 145-mile long Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad line that ran from Midland, Nebraska, westward to ...

Chief Wahbememe Burial Site

Side 1

Potawatomi Chief Wahbememe (White Pigeon) was a signer of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which placed Michigan Great Lakes forts in U.S. hands. The chief was known as a friend to the white settlers in Michigan. According ...

Potter's Headquarters / Federal Order Of Battle

(Front text)

Potter's Headquarters

Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter, on a raid through this area in the last days of the Civil War, advanced to Sumter after defeating a small Confederate force at Dingle’s Mill on April ...

Third Brigade

Third Division - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps Third Division

Third Brigade

Col. Joseph W. Fisher

34th. 38th. 39th. 40th. 41st. Penna. Infantry

(5th. 9th. 10th. 11th. 12th. (9 cos.) Reserves)

July 2 Moved with the Division from the Baltimore Pike near Rock Creek ...

Pamunkey Indians Attacked by Nathaniel Bacon

Although the Pamunkey Indians had been allies of the Virginia colonists since 1646, early in 1676 they were driven from their main town on the Pamunkey River by sympathizers of insurrectionist Nathaniel Bacon, and took refuge in Dragon Run Swamp. ...