Sisters of Saint Mary

This monument is dedicated to the Sisters of Saint Mary, now known as the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, who established St. Mary's Hospital on the property immediately to the south.

The cornerstone for St. Mary's was laid on October ...

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

Half a mile north from here was fought

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

between the Whigs and Tories, June 20, 1780.

Colonel Francis Locke

Commanded the Whig Army

Marker is at the intersection of Court Square and North Aspen Street, on the left when traveling ...

First Methodist Episcopal Church

The origins of the First United Methodist Church can be traced to 1831 when preacher Elijah Pilcher arrived in “Jacksonburgh” to serve the town's growing Methodist community. Services were held around town until a small church was erected in 1850. ...

Point of Honor

Spies in Lynchburg

Col. Robert Owen, president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, owned Point of Honor during the war. This railroad, one of three that served Lynchburg, transported thousands of Confederate troops as well as wounded, supplies, prisoners of war, ...

The Great Baltimore Fire

On Sunday morning, February 7, 1904, a spark ignited blankets and cotton goods in the firm of John E. Hurst and Company, which stood between Hopkins Place and Liberty on the south side of German (now Redwood) Street. Flames leapt ...

Hull of the Packet Boat Marshall

Famous canal boat

of the

James River and Kanawha Company,

which conveyed the body of

Stonewall Jackson

from Lynchburg to Lexington,

May 13, 1863

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Riverside Street and Rivermont Avenue.

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A Splendid Field of Battle

Union commanders chose an ideal location to fight their last battle of the Seven Days. As many as 40 cannon covered the one-half-mile front, stretching from the slopes of Crew’s Run on your left to a similar drop to Western ...

Jamestown Friends Meeting House and Cemetery

This Quaker place of worship, built by the Mendenhall family around 1819, was used when bad weather made the one-mile trip to Deep River Fiends Meeting House impossible. It is located on its original site, across from Mendenhall Plantation. The ...

Camp Forrest

Originally established in 1926 for training the Tennessee National Guard, this became a Federal training area, Jan. 10, 1941. It was named for Lt. Gen. N.B. Forrest, CSA. Units training here included the 8th, 33rd, 79th & 80th Inf. Divs., ...

Flora MacDonald

Scottish heroine

resided here

1774 - 1775

Marker is at the intersection of Bow Street and Green Street, on the left when traveling west on Bow Street.

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