Birthplace of the Martini

On this site in 1874, Julio Richelieu, bartender, served up the first martini when a miner came into his saloon with a fistful of nuggets and asked for something special. He was served a "Martinez Special." After three or four ...

Martin’s Station

In March 1769 Joseph Martin led a party of men to the Powell Valley, and attempted to establish a settlement nearby. By that fall they abandoned the site after conflicting with Native Americans. Martin returned here with a party of ...

Union Headquarters

The Battle of the Wilderness

Ellwood stood in the midst of the Wilderness, a dark, forbidding forest characterized by stunted trees and densely tangled undergrowth. When the Confederates challenged General Ulysses S. Grant’s advance through the Wilderness on May 5, ...

Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery

Capt. Joseph B. Campbell, U.S.A. Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Early in the morning this battery advanced from its bivouac north of Jos. Poffenberger's, passing through the North Woods to the ploughed field immediately south of them. One section, ...

Union Headquarters

Sherman’s headquarters

were located in the

field 400 yards to the

rear of this marker,

March 20-21, 1865. Head-

quarters of the XVII

Corps, which included

Mower’s Division, were

250 yards to the left

rear.

Marker is at the intersection of Bentonville Road (Local Route 1197) and Harper House Road ...

Charter of the University of N. C.

William R. Davie's bill to charter the University was adopted by the General Assembly meeting nearby, Dec. 11, 1789.

Marker is at the intersection of Hay Street and Market Square, on the right when traveling west on Hay Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery

Captain Dunbar R. Ransom, U.S.A. Commanding,

(September 16-17, 1862.)

On the evening of September 16th, Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery came into battery 370 yards east of the Hagerstown Pike, on the south edge of the North Woods ...

Warthen

Washington County, which once embraced all the territory from the Cherokee corner North, from the Ogeechee to the Oconee and the Liberty on the South, was surveyed in 1784. Soon the small settlement known as Warthen’s Store was designated as ...

Martha-Mary Chapel

Henry and Clara Ford had this chapel built in 1937 near the Community House and the Ways Station School. The chapel was named for the mothers of Henry Ford (Mary) and Clara Ford (Martha). Students from the nearby school utilized ...

Attempt On The Life Of Jose Marti

1893

In a small isolated cottage located in this vicinity, an attempt to poison Jose Marti, the leader of the Cuban Insurrection of 1895, was made by two Spanish agents. Marti's intuition saved his life. The traitors repented and Marti forgave ...