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 ...

George Washington Stopped Here

In 1709

George Washington

stopped here at an inn

where these stones

were in use

———

D.A.R. 1930

Marker is at the intersection of Route 150 and Washington Drive, on the right when traveling south on Route 150.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Burrows Park

This land was bequeathed to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association in 1909 by one of its active members, George B. Burrows (1832 - 1909). The lake shore area was filled to its present level by dredging the lake ...

Camp Sherman Memorial Park

In Memory Of

The thousands of men who during 1917-1918 became soldiers here under the training of Maj. General Edwin F. Glenn of the 83rd Division and in other units. . .

The thousands of men who under the guidance of A. ...

Hoyt Park

Frank W. Hoyt (1852 - 1950) was a founder of the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association in 1894. He was its treasurer for 38 years, and served 11 more years on the Madison Parks board when it began managing ...

Camp Sherman

Side A:

The United States declared war on Germany in April 1917. Largely through the efforts of Chillicothe attorney John Poland, the War Department selected Chillicothe as the site of an army training camp for inductees from Ohio, West Virginia, and ...

Park Maintenance Building

3915 Gillham Road

The Park Maintenance Building, built in 1905, was designed as an "ornamental barn" by the master architect Adriance Van Brunt. The building, constructed of native limestonea and trimmed with vitrified brick, was to be used to house ...

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 ...

Hampton's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division

C.S.A.

Hampton's Brigade, Stuart's Cavalry Division.

Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Commanding.

Organization.

1st North Carolina Cavalry,

2nd Carolina Cavalry,

Cobb's Legion, Georgia Cavalry

Jeff. Davis Legion.

September 17-18, 1862.

Hampton's Brigade reached the field on Sept. 17 and took position on the left of Jackson's Command. Occupying with Lee's ...