Brickyard Plantation

Brickyard Plantation is a portion of the vast Boone Hall Plantation. The soils that cover much of the tract contain dense red clay and sand making it suitable for brick production. In 1817, “a plantation with a Brick Yard established ...

The Crane Building

Circa 1889

Italianate Commercial Style

This is one of the finest examples of late 19th Century commercial buildings on Bloomfield Avenue. The building served as the location of the successful hardware and plumbing business of I. Seymour Crane, a founder of the ...

The Battle of McDowell

Heart of the Battlefield

The Confederate 12th Georgia Infantry Regiment held this exposed crest overlooking McDowell. Milroy’s Union troops assaulted this hilltop from two directions – on the left and the right. The Confederates held their ground against repeated attacks and ...

South Branch Of Central R.R.

In 1864 provided Flemington’s second rail line.

Passenger station erected here. A turntable to the west reversed the locomotives.

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

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Madison Building

1912

427 Bloomfield Avenue

Beaux Arts revival Style

Architect: Van Vleck & Goldsmith

Named for the Edward Madison Company, stationers, booksellers and printers, this building was designed with offices and studios and intended to bring together an association of arts, trades and professions under ...

Alhambra Hall

In 1847, Charles Jugnot and Oliver Hillard, owners of Mount Pleasant Ferry Company, developed a picnic ground in a grove of live oaks, called Hort’s Grove. They built the first Alhambra as a summer retreat and dance hall overlooking Charleston ...

The Battle of McDowell

Union Troops Attack Jackson

Major General Edward Johnson commanded the Confederates on the crest overlooking the town of McDowell. Johnson spread his line along the hilltop, anchoring his right flank on the knoll to your right. Stonewall Jackson remained in the ...

The Battle of McDowell

Confederates Climb Sitlington's Hill

“… (The 31st Virginia] came close to the 3rd and saluted them, and called them by name, and proceeded with the slaughter.”

Andrew Price, 3rd Virginia

Most of Stonewall Jackson’s Confederates climbed Sitlington’s Hill through a ravine off to ...

Joseph Blount Chesire, Jr.

1850 ~ 1932

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of N.C., 1893-1932; lawyer & writer. Birthplace is one block W.; grave 100 yards S.

Marker is on East Church Street near St. David Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Bodie

Gold was discovered here in 1859 by W.S. Bodey after whom the town was named. Once the most thriving metropolis of the Mono Country, Bodie’s mines produced gold valued at more than 100 million dollars. Tough as nails, the “Bad ...