Cumberland

Strategic Center

In 1860, Cumberland was a small town of 7,302 residents, most of whom lived in the valley of Will’s Creek. The town was an important stop on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the western terminus of the Chesapeake ...

Black Mingo Presbyterian Meeting House

[Front]:

One of the earliest Dissenter congregations in South Carolina north of the Santee River was located about two miles south of here. Its church building had been completed by 1727 when the Rev. Thomas Morritt, Episcopal minister of Charleston, visited ...

Liberty!

Gunshots and the shouts of hundreds of men battered the slope you see just ahead as one of the fiercest battles of the American Revolution broke out. Every man here that day knew that the Carolina backcountry had burned and ...

How-Beckman Mill

Constructed in 1868 by William How, the How-Beckman grist mill stands along Raccoon Creek where a distillery and sawmill were once located. In 1882 the Beckman family purchased the property. German-born August Beckman operated the turbine-powered mill, followed by his ...

McBee Chapel

Was built in 1841 at the request of Alexander

McBee son of Vardry McBee founder of Conestee, S.C.

This building was designed and laidout by

John Adams, Vardry McBee's millwright.

Mr. Adams designed the church in an octagonal shape

so as to accommodate more seating ...

Carolina Backwoodsmen

This distinguished race of men are more savage than the Indians,and possess every one of their vices, but not one of their virtues. I have known...these fellows(to) travel 200 miles through the woods never keeping any road or path, guided ...

Bodie Island Light Station

Bodie Island Light Station

has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from Bodie Island Lighthouse Road 0.9 miles east of North Carolina Route 12.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Dinwiddie Court House

(front)

In Memoriam

Battle of Dinwiddie Court House

Dedicated to the Confederate and Union soldiers who gave their lives in the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, sometimes called Chamberlain’s Bed, in the last brief victory of the Army of Northern Virginia, March 31, ...

Montgomery County's Tribute to her Heroic Dead

[Front Side - in Stone]:

Montgomery County's

Tribute to her Heroic Dead

Mexican War 1846 - 1948

Men Enrolled 98

War for the Union 1861 - 1865

Men Enrolled 2,971

Spanish American War 1898

Men Enrolled 264

[Under Both Statues:]:

"Lest We Forget"

[Back Side - ...

Governor O. M. Roberts' House

President of the 1861 Secession Convention and a Confederate officer, Oran M. Robert (1815-1898) served as governor of Texas from 1879 to 1883. After leaving office, he became a law professor at the University of Texas. He built this cottage ...