Early Gun Shop Site / Civil War Armorer

Early Gun Shop Site

Here Benjamin Mills made some of finest rifles in US, ca. 1830-50. His muzzle loaders famous for dual trigger system. Used by Kit Carson and Dr. Christopher Graham, conceded to be best rifle shot in world at ...

Harrodsburg Springs

An exclusive spa was located here from 1820-1853, then sold to U.S. Government as Western Military Asylum for aged veterans. After main building burned, veterans were moved in 1859 to Washington, D.C. Ballroom and cottages were opened Oct. 8, 1862 ...

The Price of Freedom: A Patriot’s Grave

The Aftermath

Imagine the scene in the early morning daylight of the morning of September 28, 1778 at Overkill:

. American soldiers were dead, wounded and missing. Some escaped, others were British captives.

. Major Charles Clough lay dying.

. Col. Baylor, seriously injured, ...

Lincoln Homestead State Park

(obverse)

Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the parents of future president Abraham Lincoln, were married near here on June 12, 1806. Shortly after their wedding, the couple moved to Elizabethtown, where their daughter, Sarah, was born. The family eventually lived near ...

Lincoln Homestead State Park

(side 1)

Pioneer Spirit

The westward movement was an enticement felt by many nineteenth century families, and the Lincolns were in the heart of it. A friend of the family was the infamous frontiersman Daniel Boone, and it has been reasoned that ...

Pattenburg United Methodist Church

Church was built in 1853 although worship services

were conducted in local homes and barns from 1840.

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

West Portal Methodist Church

Built in 1849, remodeled in 1876. Earlier, the congregation met in a nearby private home.

Marker is on Tunnel Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ephraim Wales Bull

planted seeds of a

wild abrusca grape

found growing on

this hillside

which

after three

generations

through his work

and wisdom

became

in this garden

in September 1840

the

Concord Grape

Marker is on Lexington Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Stagecoach Stop

Daniel Sebring bought this land in 1711, and operated a tavern here by 1738. In 1769, it became the first overnight stage stop along the Old York Road

between NY and Philadelphia.

Marker is on Old York Road, on the right when ...

Orphans Cemetery

Albert G. Williamson, a Dodge County entrepreneur, donated land for a burial place in Orphans community following the death of a neighbor’s child, George

P.A. Barnes, in 1887. The community was named in honor of the six orphaned Williamson brothers who ...