Bailey’s Eddy – Municipal Dock

Kilbourn Landmark

This natural harbor is named for Gen. Joseph Bailey, original owner of the property. It has been the gateway to the magnificent dells of Wisconsin for millions of visitors for over 100 years. Sight-seeing boats have developed from spoon-oared ...

Indian Ball Ground

The most popular game among the Indians of this region was "stick ball." This field has been constructed so that the game may be enjoyed again in the Chattahoochee Valley where it was played for hundreds of years. Sometimes known ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Bumps on the Milwaukee Road

In 1925, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company suffered the largest business failure in the history of the United States up to that time.

The bankruptcy resulted from a combination of problems related to the construction of its ...

Thomas Butler

On this lot Thomas Butler had his home and gunshop about 1764; the latter still stands to the rear. Butler and five sons, all officers, served in the Revolution. Often referred to as the “Fighting Butlers.”

Marker is on High Street ...

Hanover Baptist Church

Hanover Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist Church in King George County, was organized in 1789 with a 93-member congregation. The first meetinghouse was located at Shiloh, and Elder John Shackleford served as the first pastor. The first Sunday school was ...

The Route of the Hiawatha- Laboring in Luxury

For the price of a Pullman ticket, a common rail passenger could be waited upon and pampered in the grand manner of privileged gentry.

The Pullman porter provided the labor for that luxury…

After the Civil War, the Pullman Palace Car Company, ...

Former Site, Columbian Harmony Cemetery

1857-1959

Many distinguished Black citizens including Civil War veterans were buried in this cemetery. These bodies now rest in the new National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in Maryland.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue NE ...

Brentmoor

Spilman-Mosby House

Judge Edward M. Spilman of the Fauquier County Circuit Court constructed this house in 1859-61. James Keith, who served in the Black Horse Cavalry and later became president of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, acquired it in ...

Col. Arthur Campbell

Arthur Campbell, a military and political leader, was born in Augusta County in 1743. In 1758 during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Campbell was captured by the Wyandot Indians aligned with the French and held captive for two years before ...

Todd Beamer

This building

is named in

honor of

Todd Beamer

By act of

congress

P.L. 107-129

January 16, 2002

Marker is on North Main Street 0.1 miles from Plainsboro Road, on the right when traveling south.

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