Dairy Barn Complex

Historic Blenheim

“The outlook for agriculture in Fairfax is dismal.”County Agent R.B. Davis, Jr., 1946

Why was Davis so pessimistic? As he wrote, Blenheim owner Marguerite “Daisy” Duras’s diary cows were setting production records. Just seven years earlier in 1939, her ...

Northampton County Court Green

The Northampton County Court Green is one of the earliest and most complete in Virginia. It includes outstanding examples of early court buildings as well as later structures reflecting the continuity of government in Eastville for well over 300 years. ...

Powell's Valley

The names of the valley, river, and mountains that stretch out before you echo the names of long-hunters and explorers of the mid-18th century. Frontiersman Ambrose Powell came here with the Loyal Land Company expedition in April 1750.

Long-hunter Elisha ...

Pamunkey Indians

Eight miles south is the reservation on which the Pamunkey Indians live. The land has never been in non-Indian ownership and the Pamunkey live on it under a treaty made in 1677. In the early seventeenth century the Pamunkey were ...

PFC Terry L. Schaub

“Remembering a Brother”

18 Nov 47 - 19 Feb 68

CoC 3rd Bn/60th Inf (Riverine)

9th Inf Div. U.S. Army

KIA southeast of Can Tho City

Phong Dinh Province, Republic of Vietnam

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Ohio Route 179) and Mechanic Street ...

Memphis Martyrs

In August, 1878, fear of death caused a panic during which 30,000 of 50,000 Memphians fled this bluff city. By October, the epidemic of yellow fever killed 4,204 of 6,000 Caucasians and 946 of 14,000 Negros who stayed. With some ...

5th Corps Headquarters

Major General George Sykes

Army of the Potomac

5th Corps Headquarters

Major General

George Sykes

July 2,3,4, 1863

Marker is on Sedgwick Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Park Church

Park Church was built in 1723 for the newly established Drysdale Parish. It stood on the west side of this road, two and one-half miles above Newtown. The brick church was cruciform in shape with arms approximately 75 feet long. ...

Pinnacle Overlook

We started just as the sun began to gild the tops of the high mountains. We ascended Cumberland Mountain, from the top of which the bright luminary of the day appeared to our view in all his rising glory; the ...

Ashland County Pioneer Memorial

To the heroic pioneers who braved the perils of the pathless wilderness to establish homes for their loved ones, and who laid the foundation of our commonwealth so broad and deep in this their new homeland that their descendants might ...