Savage River Camp

General Braddock's 3rd camp on his march to Fort Duquesne June 16, 1755. The route, later known as the Old Braddock Road, passes to the southeast of the National Road. Captain Orme's diary says "we entirely demolished three wagons and ...

Santa Catarina

This spring area was named by Captain Juan Bautista De Anza when his Overland Exploration party camped here on March 14, 1774. During the opening of the Anza Trail from Sonora into Alta California. Anza's colonizing expedition of 1775, consisting ...

The Old Cistern

One of several large cisterns shown on a map of 1834. No potable water was ever found on Old Point Comfort, although one well was sunk to more than 900 feet. The garrison had to depend on cistern water and ...

Martin’s Plantation

General Braddock's 2nd camp on the march to Fort Duquesne June 14th, 15th, 1755. The old Braddock Road passed to the southeast of the National Road from Clarysville to the "Shades of Death" near "Two Mile Run." The National Road ...

The House With The Lions

Sewell - Freese House

Built c. 1867

Has Been Placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Marker is on East Washington Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Wells Fargo Building

Site of

Old Wells Fargo Building

1853

Dedicated to the Pioneers of California

By Hydraulic Parlor No. 56 N.S.G.W.

July 5, 1926

Marker is on Main Street near Commercial Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The La Vale Toll House

Toll houses were built along the National Road as a result of a 25 year national debate as to whether or not the federal government should be responsible for funding road improvements. While there was agreement on the idea that ...

Nevada County Court House

History

Nevada County organized out of Yuba County May 18, 1851. Wooden court house and log jail built on Broad Street 1851. The first court house on this site was erected in 1856. The building was damaged by fire in July ...

Fort Eustis

Fort Eustis is named for a native Virginian, Gen. Abraham Eustis (1786 – 1843), a commander of Fort Monroe. In March 1918, the U.S. government established Camp Abraham Eustis as a coast artillery training center; it was designated a fort ...

The National Road

(Called The Cumberland Road)

Was the first of the internal improvements undertaken by the U.S. Government. Surveys were authorized in 1806 over the route of “Braddock’s Road,” which followed “Nemacolin’s Path,” an Indian trail, over which George Washington traveled in 1754 ...