Site of Ohio's First Statehouse

Ross County's first courthouse was Ohio's first statehouse. The courthouse was erected on the Public Square in 1801. Thomas Worthington, one of the building's superintendents, laid out the foundation. Chillicothe was the last capital of the Northwest Territory, and the ...

Route of March

?

Each of the opposing

forces used this old

road to reach its

battle positions

October 6 and 7, 1780

Marker is on Battleground Drive, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Fort

Replica of Sutter’s Fort

Constructed on the basic plan of Sutter’s original fort one hundred years after its erection in Sacramento by that distinguished pioneer Captain John Augustus Sutter. The building of this replica of one of the most outstanding landmarks ...

Cultural Influences of Chillicothe and Ross County

(Marker 1, Native Americans)

During the course of Chillicothe’s history many diverse groups have come to inhabit the area with the earliest being the Native American as early as the late 1600's. During the American Revolution, the Shawnees fought alongside the ...

Gateposts from the Northern Entrance to Camp Sherman

This post, and the post on the opposite side of the road, were unearthed nearby during a road widening project in the summer of 2006. They were part of a set of four concrete posts erected in October 1919 at ...

Church of the Holy Trinity

((Text front))

This Episcopal church was a chapel of ease in the Parish of St. Luke for a number of years

before it became a separate congregation in 1835. It is said that William Heyward gave the church land

on which ...

North Carolina School of the Arts

Est. 1963; opened 1965. First state-supported school for performing arts in U.S. A campus of The University of North Carolina since 1971.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and Giannini Drive, on the left when traveling south on ...

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

Niles, California

“May God continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.” The gold spike ceremony at Promontory, Utah in May of 1869 united the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union ...

Lafayette At Petersburg

From this hill Lafayette, on May 10, 1781, shelled the British in Petersburg.

(On stone under the marker):

Headquarters of

General Lafayette

1781

Frances Bland Randolph

Chapter

D.A.R.

1903.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. 1 / 301) and Arlington Avenue, in the median on ...

Swift Creek Battlefield: A Landscape of Change

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign began on May 5, 1864, when Union General Benjamin Butler and the 33,000-man Army of the James landed at Bermuda Hundred nine miles northeast of here. General Butler's westward advance threatened Drewry's Bluff and Richmond to ...