The Laboratory Complex

Edison National Historic Site, NJ

Building 5, the largest of the laboratory buildings, extends 250 feet along Lakeside Avenue. Henry Hudson Holly, architect of Thomas Edison’s home, planned this single, three-story building. But Holly’s building proved too small for Edison’s plans ...

Early Industrial Patterns

The Pattern Building’s origins reflect the uses of the Valentine Riverside site by several industries that were key to America’s, and Richmond’s industrial development. The building’s stone and brick foundations are from a water-powered flour mill built by Lewis D. ...

Replica of the Statue of Liberty

With the faith and courage of

their forefathers who made

possible the freedom of these

United States

The Boy Scouts of America

Dedicate this copy of the

Statue of Liberty as a Pledge

of everlasting Fidelity and

Loyalty

The Crusade ...

National Pike Toll House

Circa 1822

The significance of this structure lies both in its history and architecture. It is one of the few remaining “toll houses” along the old National Road. The National Road was chartered between Hancock and Cumberland in 1819 and completed ...

Trading Path

Colonial trading route, dating from 17th century, from Petersburg, Virginia, to Catawba and Waxhaw Indians in Carolina, passed nearby.

Marker is on Alamance Road 0.1 miles south of Pond Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Drewry’s Bluff Battlefield

On a line that here crossed the Richmond–Petersburg turnpike, Confederate troops under command of General G.T. Beauregard attacked the Federal army of Major-General B.F. Butler on May 16, 1864 and forced its withdrawal to the Bermuda Hundred defences.

Marker is on ...

Overshot Waterwheel

This is a reconstruction of one of many waterwheels used on this site. It is called an overshot wheel because the water flows over the top. The Tredegar Iron Works used waterwheels from its founding in 1836 until the 1870s ...

Blackwater Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to All Veterans

Past Present & Future

WWI • WWII • Vietnam

Harold Dean Waller • Vietnam

James Paul Barton • Vietnam

John Wesley Dial • World War II

Aubrey Embrey • World War II

Glenn Alley • World War II

Charles H. Schuster • World War ...

Chester Confederate Monument

[South Side]

This monument guards the memory

of the men of Chester District

who obeying the call of their state

died for the Confederate cause.

1861-1865

Time may crumble this marble into dust

but time can not dim their glory.

The Right Wing at Stockbridge

On the night of Nov. 15, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of General Sherman's army [US] camped near Stockbridge on its destructive March to the Sea. The Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps) camped between Stone Mountain ...