Joseph M. Morehead

July 9th, 1840. January 1, 1911.

Joseph M. Morehead

Vice-President, acting President,

and second President of the

Guilford Battle Ground Company

Marker is on Guilford Courthouse Auto Tour Road, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Christopher’s Mill

In 1678, the tract was 40,000

acres. The present 1743 house

was built by the Hewlings

family near the earlier mill.

Signs of an early Indian camp

ground exist across the road.

1847-1997

Marker is on Tuckerton Road west of Christopher Mill Road, on the left when ...

The Cruiser Pee Dee, C.S.N.

Front

The Cruiser Pee Dee, C. S. N.

Built C.S.N. Navy Yard, Pee Dee, S. C. 1864

Burned to avoid capture March 15, 1865.

“No Nation rose so white and fair, None fell so pure of crime.”

Reverse

Boulder Donated by Winnsboro Granite Co. Model by ...

Ninth Army Corps

Welsh's Brigade, Willcox's Division

U.S.A.

Ninth Army Corps.

Welsh's Brigade, Willcox's Division.

Col. Thomas Welsh, 45th Pennsylvania Infantry, Commanding.

Organization.

8th Michigan Infantry,

46th New York Infantry,

45th and 100th Pennsylvania Infantry.

September 17, 1862.

On the morning of the 17th Welsh's Brigade was in reserve on the eastern slope ...

El Paso del Rio del Norte

On May 4, 1598, Don Juan de Oñate, Adelantado and Capitain-General, Governor of New Mexico, first named El Paso del Rio del Norte.

Through this old pass, the lowest snow-free feasible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Rocky ...

Willcox's Division, Ninth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Willcox's Division, Ninth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. Orlando B. Willcox, Commanding.

September 16-17, 1862.

On the night of September 16th Willcox's Division was held in reserve behind the ridge on the east bank of the Antietam, about one mile from the Burnside Bridge. ...

Penn Landing

Oct. 29, 1682, soon after finishing a two-months' voyage, William Penn first set foot on his colony of Pennsylvania, granted by Charles II the year before. The site is a block south.

Marker is on 2nd Street, on the right when ...

Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College During World War II

Immediately following the United States' entry into World War II after the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College (SFA)President Alton Birdwell called together an assembly of students and staff to address the ...

Agricultural Heritage Plaques

The Agricultural Heritage Plaques located throughout Historic Downtown Campbell were installed in 1992 as part of the Downtown Streetscape Project. The fruits and blossoms commemorating Campbell’s agricultural heritage were selected as most representative of the community’s orchard past from among ...

Park Founders

Guilford Courthouse NMP

Nearby monuments commemorate park founders David Schenck and Joseph M. Morehead. Appalled at the neglect of the battlefield in the 1880s, Schenck directed the purchase of historic land and incorporated the Guilford Battle Ground Company to preserve the ...