Poole's Mill Covered Bridge

Cherokee Chief George Welch constructed a grist mill here on his extensive homeplace c. 1820. An uncovered bridge was later added. With the 1838 removal of the Cherokees, the land was sold to Jacob Scudder. Dr. M. L. Pool purchased ...

Journal Gazette Building

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on South Clinton Street south of East Main Street, on the left when traveling south.

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Horace Ismon / Ismon Building

(side a)

Horace Ismon

This building was erected for Jackson dry goods merchant Horace Ismon in 1853. Ismon had begun his mercantile career in Paw Paw during the 1840s. Although established in Jackson, he continued his Paw Paw ventures, engaging ...

Burke’s Garden

Known for its fertility and great

natural beauty, the bowl shaped

Burke’s Garden is the highest valley

in Virginia. James Burke discovered

it during the 1740s while hunting and

settled here about 1754. After four

years Burke and his family moved to

North Carolina, where he died ...

Monument to the Battle of Midway

[Front top]:

Dedicated to the Preservation of the Memory of Midway

where one of the most decisive naval battles in military history was fought

June 4, 1942

The day when the American Spirit reached unparalleled heights and, in so doing, save democracy for the ...

The Boght

The Boght

Settled On and After

1704 By The

Vischer Weaver Witbeck

Lansing Powell Runkle

Dunsbach Lieverse Staats

Roff Godfrey Van O Linde

Groesbeck Van Vranken Fero

Van De Mark Van Denburgh

Johnson Pollock Storms

Fonda and Clute Families

The Boght was part of the

Van O Linde Grant of Land

Given by ...

Third Brigade

Second Division - Fifth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Fifth Corps Second Division

Third Brigade

brig. Gen. Stephen H. Weed

Col. Kenner Garrard

140th. 146th. New York

91st. 155th. Pennsylvania InfantryJuly 2 Arrived early in the morning and lay on the Baltimore Pike near Rock Creek until ...

Brigadier General John Pegram

Near this site

Brigadier General

John Pegram

was killed in the

Battle of Hatcher's Run

on February 6, 1865

Marker is on Dabney Mill Road (Virginia Route 613), on the right when traveling east.

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Boght Church

Site of the Reformed Dutch

Church of the Boght

1st Church North of Albany

Organized by the Classis

Of Albany, Feb. 22, 1784

Marker is on Boght Road (New York Route 9R), on the right when traveling west.

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Segregated Burial Grounds

Historic burial traditions parallel both the societal structure and economic status of the period. Old Cemetery reveals racially distinct sections reflected in the notable absence of family plots and headstones on the hill’s slope, where a memorial honors the final ...