Darbytown Road

During the Seven Days' Campaign, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's and Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill's Confederate divisions moved east along Darbytown Road toward its junction with the Long Bridge Road. This junction is about three miles southwest of Riddell's Shop. ...

Round Hill Redoubt

Fort Montgomery’s “Round Hill” redoubt was built to protect a piece of high ground that commanded the rest of the fort. It was one of three redoubts that the Americans built as they realized their gun batteries, which faced the ...

Debdeavon

"Laughing King of Accomacke

Emperor of the Easterne Shoare

King of the Great Nussawattocks"

A gallant warrior and a loyal

friend to the early settlers

of the Eastern Shore.

His timely warning to the colonists

of an intended uprising in 1621,

saved them from annihilation

in the massacre of ...

Thomas B. Read

The painter and poet was born Mar. 12, 1822, a mile away. Author of well-known “Sheridans Ride.” Spent mature years in Europe, but died in New York City, May 11, 1872, and is buried in Philadelphia.

Marker is at the ...

Relatives of Elizabeth Bayley Seton

In Memory of the Relatives of

Elizabeth Bayley Seton who are buried in this churchyard

Reverend Richard Charlon, D.D.

her grandfather,

Rector of St. Andrew’s Church from 1747 until is death in 1777.

Mary Bayeux Charlton,

her grandmother,

Wife of Reverend Richard Charlton, date of death unknown.

Dr. ...

University of Nebraska at Kearney

In 1903 the legislature appropriated $50,000 to establish a state normal school in central or western Nebraska. After 111 ballots, the State Board of Education chose Kearney as the site. The city donated twenty acres on the west edge of ...

Named for a British Lord

The town you see 1,400 feet below, the mountain on which you stand, and the Gap itself all bear the name of an English royal - the Duke of Cumberland. Prince William Augustus (1721-1765) was the third and favorite son ...

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 ...

Bernie's Beach

Bernie Holtman Park, commonly known as Bernie's Beach, was dedicated in 1981. It was previously known as South Shore Beach and, before that, Gilson Street Beach. From 1945 until his death in 1980, Bernard Julius Holtman was the owner of ...

West Redoubt

In 1780 - 81, the British built a series of small forts or redoubts to serve as an outer line of defense for their headquarters at Camden. They were well fortified with troops and artillery, making Camden relatively impenetrable to ...