The Route of the Hiawatha- Olympian Luxury

Driving across the country today, fueling up at fast food outlets, it is hard to imagine that travel was once much more luxurious. The Milwaukee Road's Olympian and Columbian passenger trains carried elegant dining cars the entire distance from Chicago ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Olympian Hiawatha

On June 29, 1947 the pride of the Milwaukee Road was introduced-- an all new streamlined train called the “Olympian Hiawatha”.

The name “Hiawatha” originated with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Song of Hiawatha” written in the mid-1800s. The Milwaukee Road chose ...

William Harris Crawford

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William Harris Crawford, teacher, lawyer, duelist & statesman, was born in Va. Feb. 24, 1772, son of a poor farmer. Moving to Ga., at 14 he studied, taught & was admitted to the bar in 1799. He killed P.L. Van ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- The Mighty Quills

The Unknown Locomotive

Called the “unkown” locomotive by some rail enthusiasts, few people now recognize the heavyweight of the Milwaukee’s Rocky Mountain Division, the Baldwin-Westinghouse EP-3.

Between 1919 and 1955, these big motors pulled passenger trains over the rugged Rocky, Belt and ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Johnson’s Big Cut

“Fire in the Hole!”

In 1908, a Milwaukee contractor named Johnson needed to blast out a path through the rock face next to the Barnes Creek Trestle, #218. Blasters chiseled out five “coyote holes”, stuffed them with 25,000 pounds of blasting ...

Structures of Restriction

Fences have played an integral part in Mount Vernon Place’s history. The small interior fence was originally installed in 1935 to keep jackrabbits from eating the gardens during a Baltimore jackrabbit epidemic. The rabid rodents plagued this neighborhood’s green spaces ...

Isle of Wight County

Isle of Wight County

formerly called

Warrosquoyacke

after Indians of this area

visited by

Captain John Smith

1608

settled by

Captian Christopher Lawne

and other adventurers

1619

one of eight

original shires

1634-1637

(map legend)

Court House Locations

1. Smithfield 1694-1736/1749-1750

2. Blackwater 1736-1749

3. Smithfield 1750-1800

4. Present location 1800

Erected by the

Isle of Wight County

Jamestown Committee

1957

Marker can be ...

A Place of Invention

This fountain was installed during the creation of Mount Vernon Place so that those wealthy enough to own wooden teeth could rinse and wash them in the park. These teeth cleaners were common all over America in the 1800s. At ...

“Five Tents”

The first permanent structure was actually built around five wooden floored tents. The roof, partitions, fireplace, porch, windows, and doors were then constructed until nothing remained of the original tents except the name. Herbert Hoover, Jr. began his long convalescence ...

Surry County Confederate Monument

Our heroes

1861-1865

To

the Confederate Soldiers

of Surry County.

“That we through life may not

forget

to love the thin gray line.”

Erected by the Confederate

Memorial Association of Surry

County A.D. 1909.

Marker is at the intersection of Colonial Trail East (Virginia Route 10) and Rolfe Highway (Virginia Route ...