Ways Station

In 1856, the Savannah, Albany & Gulf R.R. was built across the nearby Ogeechee River into Bryan County. Near this site a train depot was built, which came to be known as “Ways No. 1 ½” for William J. Way, ...

Site of the Annapolis City Gates

1698-1790

All roads leading to this provincial capital, marked AA to guide the traveler, entered the city here beside the city gate house. A wooden fence, enclosing the city, kept out wandering cattle and "men of ill fame."

Erected by the National ...

Site of Ohio's First Statehouse

Ross County's first courthouse was Ohio's first statehouse. The courthouse was erected on the Public Square in 1801. Thomas Worthington, one of the building's superintendents, laid out the foundation. Chillicothe was the last capital of the Northwest Territory, and the ...

Lucas Theatre

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Circa 1921

Marker is on Abercorn St near E. Congress Lane, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Morattico Baptist Church

On the hill is Morattico Church, organized in 1778, the mother Baptist church of the Northern Neck. The present building was erected in 1856. Lewis Lunsford, first pastor, is buried here.

Marker is at the intersection of Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway ...

Gateposts from the Northern Entrance to Camp Sherman

This post, and the post on the opposite side of the road, were unearthed nearby during a road widening project in the summer of 2006. They were part of a set of four concrete posts erected in October 1919 at ...

Lafayette At Petersburg

From this hill Lafayette, on May 10, 1781, shelled the British in Petersburg.

(On stone under the marker):

Headquarters of

General Lafayette

1781

Frances Bland Randolph

Chapter

D.A.R.

1903.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1 / 301) and Arlington Avenue, in the median on ...

Dunlop's Station

At the nearby junction of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and the Confederate military spur line to Ettrick, stood Dunlop's Station, a Confederate telegraph post and supply depot. During the siege of Petersburg, southbound passengers were detrained here to avoid ...

Dunlop Station

"...burning cartridges like shooting stars"

Dunlop Station on the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was located here on the southern boundary of David Dunlop's Ellerslie estate. During the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865, a military rail spur was completed in March ...

Swift Creek Battlefield: A Landscape of Change

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign began on May 5, 1864, when Union General Benjamin Butler and the 33,000-man Army of the James landed at Bermuda Hundred nine miles northeast of here. General Butler's westward advance threatened Drewry's Bluff and Richmond to ...