Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal

Constructed 1855~59 by steam dredges to assist commerce. Now part of Intracoastal Waterway.

N.C. Cut 5 miles long.

Marker is on Caratoke Highway (U.S. 158) north of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Bridge.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Tryon Peak

on its summit in July, 1767

a Treaty was made between English Officers and Cherokee Chiefs.

Establishing there the extreme western frontier for White settlers.

The Mountain was named for

Willian Tryon

then Royal Governor of the Province of North Carolina.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Wheeler Peak

13,161 Feet Above Sea Level

Named in honor of Major George Montague Wheeler (1832-1909) who for ten years led a party of surveyors and Naturalists collecting geologic, biologic, planimetric, and topographic data in New Mexico and six other southwestern states.

Marker can ...

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The canal and towpath are dedicated to Justice William O. Douglas of White Ferry.

Marker is at the intersection of Whites Ferry Road (Maryland Route 107) and River Road, on the left when ...

McPeake Cabin

Robert and Permelia McPeake built this cabin near Rock Hill, Tennessee, in 1851. Danny and Rose Garner donated the cabin to the Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Association in 2006. After being painstakingly recorded, the cabin was dismantled and moved to the ...

Chesapeake Beach Railway

1897-1935

Built by Otto Mears of Colorado in 1897. The train track linking Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Beach crossed here. The original depot to the east is now the Railway Museum. Excursion steamboats also brought passengers to Chesapeake Beach from Baltimore. ...

San Saba Peak

"Rising to an altitude of 1,712 feet, San Saba Peak is an oblong promontory with rimrock edges on the north and west sides. The Spanish Governor of Texas, Don Juan Antonio Bustillo y Cevallos, named the ancient landmark in 1732. ...

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Commenced at Georgetown. July 4th 1828. Chief Engineer Benjamin Wright.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company, 1850. President James M. Coale. Directors William A. Bradley, Henry Daingerfield, Wm. Cost Johnson, John Pickell, George Schley, Samuel P. Smith. ...