Engagement at Westminster

War at the Almshouse

On June 29, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s infantry was in Pennsylvania, and Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry arrived here on the outskirts of Westminster. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee’s division led the column, which numbered 6,000 including cavalrymen ...

Nathanael Greene, Maj. Gen., Continental Army

John Maitland, Lt. Col., 71st Regt. of Scotch Foot

This tomb, known as the Graham vault, possesses the distinction of having been the burial place of two heroes of the Revolutionary War, one American and the other British.

Lt. Col. John Maitland ...

WLOK Radio Station

In 1977 WLOK became Memphis' first African-American owned radio station. Established on this site, Gilliam Communications' WLOK is a family-oriented format on which many of the nation's top African-American leaders have appeared. Several of the nation's leading disc jockeys starred ...

Salvation Army

To the Glory of God.

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Under the direction of

General William Booth,

the founder of the Salvation Army,

Commissioner George S. Railton

and seven women

officers unfurled the flag of the Salvation Army

here on March 10, 1880.

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Shawnee Nation in Logan County / Shawnee Villages in Logan Count

[North Side of Marker]:"Shawnee Nation in Logan County"

From the 1770s until 1832, the Logan County area was the homeland to much of the Shawnee Nation. Ten villages known as the Upper Mad River towns included the homes of influential leaders ...

The National Road

Side A:

After the Revolutionary War, our first President, George Washington, advocated the construction of a road linking cities in the United States from east to west. In 1806, President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation authorizing the road. The National ...

Lincoln at Kelley's Tavern

Kelley’s Tavern was originally called Strong’s Inn after Cyrus Strong, who built a mud-mortar log cabin here in the 1830's. The inn at Strong’s Ford was a stop on the Bloomington or State Road from Danville west to Urbana. Kelley’s ...

"At the Point of Rock"

“At the point of rock,” the translation of the American Indian word Neabsco, describes clearly the high bluff of land in front of you known as Freestone Point. The location of Freestone Point is indicated on maps from the 18th ...

Battle of Wyse Fork

Last Mass Capture of Union Troops

The yellow sidebar in the upper left of the marker provides a brief synopsis of the Carolinas Campaign. It states:

The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman ...

Brabant Plantation

Residence of Rt. Rev. Robert Smith, who was born in Norfolk, England, in 1732. He was consecrated in Philadelphia in 1795, as the first Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina. He died in 1801, and is buried in St. Philip's Churchyard, ...