Powder Magazine and Filling Room

Ammunition for the fort's guns was kept in underground storage facilities called magazines and filling rooms. Shells were armed and sometimes stored in the filling room, while the magazine was used to hold black powder and crated rounds. Implements for ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Bridging the Gaps

Wood to Steel

The Milwaukee Road built temporary wood trestles at all but Kelly Creek and Clear Creek. Fire danger prompted the railroad to immediately begin replacing the wooden structures with earth-filled embankments or building steel bridges inside and over them.

The ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- No One’s “Fault”

It's nature’s “fault” this tunnel is closed…

Several major geologic fault lines run under these mountains. The mountainside here is slowly shifting along a fault line into the right side of this tunnel, collapsing it.

The tunnel runs through rock known as ...

Fort Ward

1861-1865

This stairway leads up the west wall of Fort Ward between the Northwest Bastion (to the left) and the Southwest Bastion (to the right). Fort Ward had 14 cannon emplacements along this area of the wall that created overlapping fields ...

Town of Oakville

Based on the large number of local mounds and artifacts, this site shows evidence of Indian occupation over 2000 years ago. According to tradition about 1780, Oakville became a Cherokee town located on Black Warriors' Path. By the early 1820's, ...

Site of First Iron Foundry in America

Site of First

Iron Foundry in America

Established in 1619

Marker is on Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1) 0.4 miles from Chippenham Parkway, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The 1755 Battle of Lake George

Lake George Battlefield Park

In September 1755, a Colonial army commanded by Major General William Johnson camped on this location in preparation for an advance against the French Fortress of St. Frederic at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. On September 8, ...

Fort Lee Historic Park

Beneath these cliffs, Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon was welcomed by the Lenni Lenape Indians on September 3, 1609.

Nearly 167 years later, this giant Bluff Rock became a strategic stronghold in the American War for Independence as the conflict raged within view ...

7th West Virginia Infantry

7th West Virginia

Infantry

The end of charge

July 2, 1863.

Marker can be reached from Wainwright Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Home of Reuben Hornsby

Site of the home built in 1832 by Reuben Hornsby (1793-1879) and his wife Sarah Morrison Hornsby (1796-1862).

Second built in “Austin’s Little Colony”. First in the present county of Travis.

Famed for Christian hospitality.

Here Josiah Wilbarger recovered after being scalped in ...