First Balloon Flight in Virginia

On May 7, 1801, J. S. Watson, a student at William and Mary, wrote a letter detailing attempts at flying hot air balloons on the Court House Green. The third balloon, decorated with sixteen stars, one for each of the ...

Louis Bromfield / Malabar Farm

Louis Bromfield

Acclaimed author, conservationist, and farmer Louis Bromfield was born in Mansfield in 1896. A graduate of the city's schools, he went on to study agriculture at Cornell University in 1914, but left in 1915 to help run his ...

Pine Village Football

[Marker text, side 1]:

Local team was important Indiana precursor to modern professional football organizations. Clinton Beckett introduced football to Pine Village High School 1898. Town and high school teams played on bottomland, northwest of here, starting local football tradition. Town ...

Walerga Assembly Center

Lest We Forget

Walerga Assembly Center was established by the United States at the onset of World War II to assemble and temporarily detain, without charge or trial, 4,739 Sacramento residents solely because of their Japanese ancestry. Approximately 120,000 persons were ...

National Memorial to members of the Defence Forces

who died in the service of the State

The National Memorial to members of the Defence Forces is a place of contemplation and remembrance, providing a focal point where families, relatives and members of the public can reflect on the contribution ...

Burnt Ordinary

First called John Lewis's Ordinary and then Fox's, Burnt Ordinary received its name in Jan. 1780 when, according to the Virginia Gazette, Fox's Ordinary burned to the ground. Later, in Oct. 1781, when the French army's wagon train passed by, ...

Gen. Evans’ Birthplace

>>> -- 3/4 Mi. -->

Clement Anselm Evans, Brig. Gen. C.S.A., soldier, lawyer, minister, statesman & author was born 3/4 miles W. of here in 1834. Admitted to the bar at 18, elected county judge at 21, state senator at 25, ...

Old Brick Church

Tygart's Valley Presbyterian Church, organized in 1820. A brick building erected three-fourths mile west at the cemetery was destroyed by Union soldiers in 1862-1863 and the bricks used for building flues at the winter quarters.

Marker is on U.S. 250 0.9 ...

The Andrew Carnegie Public Library

1915-1965

The Ulatis Book Club initiated an early effort in 1905 to obtain a Carnegie Library Building Fund Grant. This effort was taken over in 1910 by the Saturday Club, which campaigned to establish a library district under the jurisdiction of ...

Barnesville War Memorial

Lest We Forget Those Who

Gave Their All For Our Country

Our Honored W.W. I K.I.A.

Wm. S. Bowen • Mansel E. Kaiser • George R. Higgins

Our Honored W.W. II K.I.A.

Edmund Bradfield • Wayne A. Thomas

Wm. O. Cordner • Lewis Wade

Paul Orwig • ...