Norfolk & Western Caboose #518654

This Norfolk & Western caboose was given to the City of Burlington by Norfolk Southern Railway in 1993. It is symbolic of the railroad roots of the North Carolina Railroad town of Company Shops (1866) which became Burlington in 1893. ...

Seven Days Battles

Mechanicsville

Down this slope in the late afternoon of June 26, 1862, A. P. Hill moved to attack the Unionists holding the east side of Beaver Dam Creek. Pender’s Brigade was on the left, Ripley’s on the right. Exposed to a ...

Blountsville

On Nov. 18, 1864, Blair’s 17th Corps of the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman’s army [US], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the Sea, crossed the Ocmulgee River at Seven Islands (12 mi. NW ...

M-60 A3 Main Battle Tank

WT 52 Tons

Main Gun 105 MM

Produced 1956-1987

This tank was acquired from the SC ARNG

with the help of Sgt. Charles A. Price.

This marker was dedicated by

VFW Post #8131

Star Fort Post 103

Ninety Six American Legion

This model tank was used in Desert Storm

Marker ...

Bench Mark "A"

"In October 1877, Bench Mark "A" was cut on the water table of the recently rebuilt courthouse in Hagerstown, Maryland", reads the report of the coast and geodetic survey to President McKinley. This was the beginning point of a transcontinental ...

Vermont Avenue Baptist Church

1530 Vermont Avenue, NW

Vermont Avenue Baptist Church was formed in 1866 by seven formerly enslaved men and women meeting in the home of John and Amy Slaughter. They joined the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church for assistance in organizing their ...

The Weeks-Bowker House

Joseph Bowker paid $300 for

the lot on which this 1876

home was built. In the early

1900’s, Sadie Weeks Bowker

always had 4 or 5 school

teachers boarding with her.

Marker is on N Main Street (County Route 541), on the right when traveling south. ...

Erected in Honor of the Boys

Leitersburg District

who served in

The World War

1917 - 1919

R. Lee Slick

Andrew M. Hartman

John R. Myers

Leiter D. Lowery, Corp.

Allan F. Miner

Russell E. Hartle

A. Stanley Hollinger, Corp.,

Levi. M. Hartle.

Lloyd L. Hoover, Sargt.

Roger M. Wolfinger, Corp.

Arthur M. C. Myers

Harry F. Provard

Grover C. Wallack

Joseph W. ...

E.B. 'Baty" Hall

12-25-07 5-22-77

Baty Hall was a faithful and dedicated public official, having served the citizens of Polk County and the city of Saluda in a stately manner.

He served as chairman of Polk County board of commissioners from December 3, 1956 to ...

Civil War Symbol Yields To Time

A STUMP IS ALL THAT REMAINS of a Silver Maple transplanted from the Battlefield of Chattanooga. In 1897 the sapling was planted here as part of a Memorial Grove dedicated to Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The ...