Battle of Port Royal Island

Near the old halfway house, in the

vicinity of Grays Hill, on February

3, 1779, a force of South Carolina

Militia, Continentals, and

volunteers, including men from

Beaufort, under General William

Moultrie, defeated the British in

their attempt to capture Port

Royal Island.

Marker is on Trask Parkway ...

Fire Station No. 1

The Redwood City Volunteer Fire Department started in 1861, and was the first non-profit organization in San Mateo County. It wasn’t until 1921 when this building at 1044 Middlefield Road was built that the firefighters finally received a salary.

The original ...

First National Bank of Sharon

[Front]:

This bank, built in 1909-10 by W.W. Blair, was the first bank in the town of Sharon, incorporated in 1889. Its first officers were J.H. Saye, president; J.L. Rainey, vice president; and A.M. Haddon, cashier. From 1910 to 1929 the ...

British Attack

British General Lord Cornwallis placed troops on both sides of New Garden Road below the fields of Joseph Hoskins’ farmstead. Ahead of them the North Carolina militia, drawn up behind a fence line, was supported by two cannons in the ...

Ratcliffe-Allison House (Earp’s)

Built 1812

Old Town Fairfax

This is the oldest house in the City of Fairfax and the first city-owned building to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places (1973). The oldest section of the house, the eastern portion, was built ...

Battle of Milliken’s Bend

At daybreak on June 7, 1863, Gen. H. E. McCulloch led his Texas Brigade against the Union force which guarded the Union supply depot at Milliken’s Bend. In the savage fighting which ensued, the Confederates drove the Federals from their ...

Polk County Confederate Monument

CSA

Confederate Dead

(Left face)

In memory of that noble band, who have crossed the mystic stream,

and are resting now in that happy land,

where peace and pleasure reight supreme.

The heroic deeds will never fade,

from memory's brightest page,

and their brave defense of country and ...

Confederate First Line

Gen. W. B. Taliaferro’s

division occupied

trenches crossing the

road at this point,

March 15-16, 1865.

Marker is on Burnett Road (North Carolina Route 82), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hansen Cooperative Dairy

The Box Elder Cooperative Association was established in 1867 -68 by Lorenzo Snow, under direction of Brigham Young. In 1871 a dairy, said to be the first in Utah, was built south of Beaver Dam, near a cold water spring, ...

The Great Barbecue

A section of the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War was stationed on the western slopes of Quaker Hill from September 16, to November 28, 1778.

The Great Barbecue

Occurred on the hillside across this road.

October 17, 1778

It commemorated ...