Kentucky-Alabama Road

First opened in 1806, it ran from Monticello, Ky., to Huntsville, AL., then in Indian territory. Entering Tennessee near Celina, it passed through Cookeville to Viola and Winchester. It follows the road south through Shellsford in this section.

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39th New York Infantry (Garibaldi Guards)

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps

(Front):39th

New York

Infantry,

(Garibaldi Guards)

3rd Brig. 3d Div.

2d Corps.

(Back)This Regiment at about

7 o'clock P.M. July 2d 1863.

Being ordered to support

General Sickles' line.

Charged and drove the enemy

Recapturing the Guns and

Equipment of Battery I.

5th U.S. Artillery.

A stone tablet marks

the ...

Beverly

Settled about 1753 by Robert Files and David Tygart. Files' family was massacred near by. Site of Westfall's Fort, 1774. In Mt. Iser Cemetery are the Union trenches and graves of Confederate soldiers killed in Battle of Rich Mountain.

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Kilburn Brothers

Stereoscopic View Factory

Here, from 1867 to 1909, the world famous Kilburn brothers, Benjamin and Edward, produced and distributed thousands of stereoscopic views. Their collection, largest in the world and collector's items today, provided popular parlor entertainment for generations.

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The Third Battle of Winchester

Thoburn's Attack

As the Nineteenth Corps tried to reorganize its lines, Union Col. Joseph Thoburn's division of the Eighth Army Corps came up from reserve and took position at the edge of the First Woods behind you. Union Gen. Philip Sheridan ...

Burning of the Brig "Peggy Stewart"

Near this spot

which was then the shore of the bay,

the Brig “Peggy Stewart” was burned

by her owner, “Anthony Stewart.”

October 19, 1774

To pacify the indignation of the

citizens roused by the payment of

duties on seventeen boxes of tea

imported in the brig.

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Erected in ...

City of Beacon

Incorporated May 15, 1913

consolidation of Matteawan

and Fishkill Landing

Villages.

Marker is on North Avenue (New York Route 9D), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Robert Foyles & Family

This Stone Commemorates:

Robert Foyles & Family, killed by indians 1753, half mi. s.

settlement of David Tygart, 2 mi. s. near bridge.

First English settlers west of Alleghenies.

Westfalls Fort, built 1774, half mi. s.

Battle of Rich Mountain, ...

Butler in Annapolis

The 8th Massachusetts Infantry reached Annapolis April 21, 1861, on the Railroad Ferry Maryland. Col. Benjamin F. Butler forwarded his and the 7th New York Infantry Regiments to Washington. Shortly he was directed to prevent the legislature from acting on ...

The Watson Cabin

Positioned on a bluff over looking Tahoe City’s Common Beach is the historic Watson’s Log Cabin. The cabin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the oldest log structure remaining in the North Lake Tahoe area.

The two-story ...