Salem Methodist Campground

Begun in 1826, the Salem Methodist Campground moved to this site in 1842. Meeting in October of each year, except 1863 & 1864, it is the oldest regularly held Methodist camp meeting in Mississippi.

Marker is on Salem Campground Road, on ...

Sixth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Army of the Potomac

Sixth Corps

Major General John Sedgwick

First Division Brigadier General Horatio G. Wright

Second Division Brigadier General Albion P. Howe

Third Division Major General John Newton, Brigadier General Frank Wheaton

Artillery Brigade Colonel Charles H. Tompkins

The Corps being in ...

Washington’s Temporary Headquarters

This boulder which lay from time immemorial

on this site near the turn of the old road

marks the location of a house used by

General George Washington

as temporary headquarters

on October 26, 1780

while on march from Totowa now Paterson

to support Lafayette’s expedition against

the ...

Confederate Storehouse Burned By Federal Troops

April 20, 1865

On this site stood the stone warehouse of Captain Thomas Truss and Marcus Worthington. Stored here were meats, grains and clothing collected by the Confederate government as a war tax. Disabled C.S.A. veteran Felix M. Wood was receiver ...

Post-Appomattox Tragedy

On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended.

Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz,

and two other armed veterans of Co. D,

7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal

cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock.

The horses were returned the next day to ...

The Palisades

For pro­tec­tion against the Indians, the set­tlers built a log pal­isade across the nar­rows of the penin­sula between the York and James rivers. This was about 1633. Middle Plantation (later Williamsburg) began as a set­tle­ment along this pal­isade which had ...

Birthplace of Gen. Wm. S. Rosecrans

Born Sept. 6, 1819

Died March 11, 1898

Marker is on Rosecrans Road (Local Highway 69) 0.4 miles east of County Road 33, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery Gate

This Gate Is the Gift

of

Columbia University

In the City of New York

In Grateful Memory

of

Samuel Johnson

the

First President of King’s College

In the Province of New York

1754 – 1763 A.D.

And of His Son

William Samuel Johnson

the

First President of Columbia College

In the City of New ...

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979)

(side one)

An outstanding photographer of the twentieth century, Laura Gilpin is best known for capturing southwestern cultures and landscapes on film. When her car ran out of gas on the Navajo reservation in 1930, she began photographing the local people. ...

First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist church in Maryland, was founded amidst turmoil in 1836, five years after Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia. Alarmed at the Rebellion, Maryland and other slave states passed laws restricting the movement of free ...