Beaverdam Episcopal Church

288 Yards south is the site of the Second Episcopal Church in Goochland County. Built before 1764, this church was in use until about 1861. William Douglas of Scotland was the rector until 1777. Among other rectors were Charles Hopkins ...

Powhatan’s Chimney

According to Gloucester legend this chimney is all that remains of the house built by Captain

John Smith for Indian Chief Powhatan in 1609

The collapse of this chimney in an 1888 storm gave impetus to the preservation movement in Virgina Concerned ...

A Working-Class House in the Capital City

Wealth makes all the distinction of classes in Philadelphia.

Duc de la Rochefoucault-Liancourt, 1783

The house of a workman stood here in the late 1700s when Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the United States. Its location is marked by ...

Providence Church

Half a mile northeast stands Providence Presbyterian Church, built probably in 1749 and little altered since. John Todd, Senior, a founder of Hampden-Sydney College, was pastor for forty years (1753-1798). Hanover Presbytery met there in October 1762.

Marker is on ...

Reis Park

Reis Park

dedicated

to the memory of

Carolyn Wright

& Walter Reis

The Wright Family Homestead (c. 1862) and 81 acres of land (now Reis Park) were bequeathed to the Town of Somers by Carolyn Wright Reis in 1967 to be used for educational ...

Holland Springs

Indians had probably visited these clear, cool springs for centuries when, in 1847, Henry E. McCulloch established a Ranger camp here, on Hamilton Creek. A year later, Samuel E. Holland (1826-1917), a Georgian, decided while visiting the camp that this ...

Camp Butner

World war II infantry training camp; housed Axis prisoners of war. Named for N.C. native, Gen. Henry W. Butner.

Marker is at the intersection of E C Street (North Carolina Route 56) and South 33rd Street, on the right when traveling ...

Old Depot Museum

This building, constructed in 1888, served as Division headquarters of the Southern Kansas Railway. This was a subsidiary and later became a part of the Santa Fe system. When the Santa Fe moved into a new station, the old stone ...

Home of Samuel Henry Rumph

This house was built in 1904 as the residence of Samuel Henry Rumph (1851-1922), father of Georgia's commercial peach industry. A noted horticulturist, he originated the Elberta peach at his Willow Lake Nursery. three miles east, 1870- 1875. His invention, ...

Fighting in a Forest Primeval

Kings Mountain...would have enabled us to oppose a superior force with advantage had it not been covered with wood which sheltered the Americans and enabled them to fight in their favorite manner.

Alexander Chesney, South Carolina loyalist

The woods you see around ...