Town of West Union

1853 ~ 1910

The town of West Union stood between today’s Edgewood Road and Raymundo Drive in Woodside. The town was originally developed by the employees of two lumber mills on West Union Creek established by Willard Whipple. Farming supplemented the ...

Battle at Point of Rocks

This [railroad] company was met by the most decided and inveterate opposition, on the part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

Philip E. Thomas, President, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

The proximity of railroad tracks by the canal belies the intense ...

The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

Founded May 1, 1848 at Jefferson College by Daniel Webster Crofts

James Elliott

Naaman Fletcher

Ellis Bailey Gregg

John Templeton McCarty

Samuel Beatty Wilson

Fortiter

Fideliter

Feliciter

Marker is on South College Street (U.S. 19) south of East Beau Street (Pennsylvania Route 136), on the left when ...

Encounter at the Fall Line

John Smith's meeting with the Mannahoacks

In August of 1608, Captain John Smith and his crew explored the lower Rappahannock from the Chesapeake Bay to a point just upstream from this location. Soon after landing, the group was attacked by Mannahoack ...

David Wark Griffith

1875 - 1948

Oldham County native buried here. Renowned as director-producer of The Birth of a Nation, film drama of Civil War and post-bellum era, and also Intolerance, Orphans of the Storm, Broken Blossoms. He created dramatic and photographic effects, close-up ...

Fort Lee Road

Fort Lee Road (Main Street) was the main roadway to General Washington’s Headquarters in Hackensack. Supplies and men were in constant movement on the road to re-supply Fort Washington in New York. The Continental Army began it’s “Retreat to Victory” ...

Fry Cemetery

Located on the hilltop 500 feet southwest of here. Fry Cemetery typifies rural valley-and-ridge community cemeteries of the 1800s. The Fry family emigrated from Virginia to this area when it was still part of the Mississippi Territory. Revolutionary War veteran ...

The Soldiers Friend

Ruel C. Gridley

Born Jan. 23, 1829

Died Nov. 24, 1870

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Erected by

RAWLINS POST No. 23

Grand Army of the Republic

and the Citizens of Stockton

Sept. 19, 1887 in gratitude

for services rendered Union

Soldiers during the War of

the Rebellion in collecting

275,000 dollars for the

Sanitary Commission by

selling ...

Fanny Dickenson Scott Johnson

In this valley in June 1785, Fanny Dickenson Scott's husband, Archibald Scott, their four children and a young male member of the nearby Ball family were killed by members of four different Indian tribes. The rest of the Ball family ...

Death of Boone's Son

In this valley, on 10 Oct. 1773, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cherokee Indians killed Daniel Boone's eldest son, James, and five others in their group of eight settlers en route to Kentucky. Separated from Daniel Boone's main party, the men had ...