Roebuck Springs Historic District

Roebuck Springs was the first large residential suburb in Birmingham where planning and development were tied to the automobile, and the first community in the city associated with a golf course development. The 1910 land plan was designed to complement ...

White Mountain Hospital

Built during the great depression using native stone & W.P.A. labor, this twenty-bed facility finally opened in 1939 when a doctor agreed to come to Round Valley to finish, lease & run the hospital for 10 years.

Marker is on South ...

Theodore A. Penland Rose Garden

This rose garden is dedicated

to the memory of

Theodore A. Penland

1849 – 1950

last Commander-in-Chief of

the Grand Army of the Republic

Plaque presented by The Daughters of Union Veterans and the Woman’s Relief Corps, Auxiliary to

the G.A.R. of Clark County, Washington

Marker is ...

Jarman's Gap

Five miles east, formerly known as Woods’ Gap. Michael Woods, his three sons and three Wallace sons-in-law (Andrew, Peter, William), coming from Pennsylvania via Shenandoah Valley, crossed through this pass into Albemarle County in 1734 – pioneers in settling this ...

The XIII Winter Olympic Games

Here on February 13, 1980

The XIII Winter Olympic Games

were opened by

Vice President of the United States Walter F. Mondale and here the sacred Olympic Flame was brought from Olympia, Greece to shed its light for twelve days on the ...

Wilson Chapel And Cemetery

("The Little Brown Church in the Wildwood")

Wilson Chapel was built in 1916 as a memorial to James and Frances Wilson by their daughters, Rosa Wilson Eubanks and Minerva Wilson Constantine. At the time of its construction the area was developing ...

First Presbyterian Church of Oxford

Resolution

On motion by Mrs. Dickey, seconded by Mr. Miller the following resolution was unanimously adopted by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Warren at a meeting held March 9, 1994.

Resolution honoring the membership of the First Presbyterian ...

East Lake Park

East Lake was planned in 1886 by the East Lake Land Company to help sell home sites to the men who came in the 1870's to work in Birmingham's steel industry. First named Lake Como, after the lake in the ...

F. T. Baptist Church

F. T. Baptist Church was founded nearby as Ragged Mountain Church in 1778. According to tradition the congregation worshipped in a log structure at Sharp Rock until about 1802 before moving to the former F. T. Village by 1804 where ...

Mount Pleasant

Settled by English and Germans in 18th century. Village grew up around two mill sites, tavern and church.

Marker is on Mt. Pleasant - Everittstown Rd, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org