Old Forge Bridge

This three-arch bridge was erected at a cost $2,800 by W. H. Eirely in 1863 over a ford in Antietam Creek. The east arch of this bridge spans a path once used for cattle. A forge, part of a large ...

Bective Abbey / Mainistir Bheigtí

Bective Abbey — from Mainistir Bheigthí (Abbey of Beigtheach)

This Cistercian abbey was founded in 1147 as a “daughter house” of Mellifont Abbey.

The community here was Anglo-Norman. In 1386 men of Irish birth were effectively barred from entering the monastery. The ...

Joseph Bryan Park

Before becoming a park, this property was part of the Young family's Westbrook estate in the 1700s and later Rosewood, home of the Mordecai family. It was a gathering place for participants in Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800. During the Civil ...

The Dr. R. S. Braddock House

Physician R. S. Braddock lived

in the mid 1800’s farmhouse

c. 1875-1900. He was President

of the Medford Fire Company

in 1897 and served as Fire

Chief from 1899 to 1901.

Marker is at the intersection of S Main Street (County Route 541) and Mill Street, ...

Belmont

Edward J. Warren, a farmer, was the first owner of the house on 100 acres in 1858. Warren, a private in the 34th Virginia Infantry, was captured by Union troops and held prisoner at Fort Monroe. The property is first ...

Blandford Church

In Harm’s Way

This church, built circa 1737, was in ruins at the time of the Civil War. Nonetheless, located behind Gracie’s, Colquitt’s and Elliott’s Salients in the Confederate defense lines, the structure served as a temporary field hospital during the ...

Great Salt Lake Base and Meridian

Latitude 40°46'04" - Longitude 111°54'00"

Altitude (sidewalk) 4327.27 Ft.Fixed by Orson Pratt assisted by Henry G. Sherwood, August 3, 1847, when beginning the original survey of “Great Salt Lake City,” around the “Mormon” Temple site designated by Brigham Young July 23, ...

Colonial National Bank Building

This property

is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

and registered as a

Virginia

Historic Landmark

1927

Marker is at the intersection of Campbell Avenue and Jefferson Street on Campbell Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Burke’s Garden

Eight miles east is Burke’s Garden, discovered by James Burke in 1749. Major Lewis’s expedition against the Indians, 1756, camped there, and Burke’s fort was there in 1774. In 1781 Indians raided into Burke’s Garden, carrying off the wife and ...

Battle of Nottoway

Lee's Retreat

This was the first in a series of raids from Petersburg led by Union Generals James Wilson and August Kautz. The purpose of the raid was to destroy portions of the South Side and Richmond & Danville Railroads and ...