San Solomon Spring

Called "Mescalero Spring" in 1849, when watering corn and peaches of the Mescalero Apaches. To Ft. Davis soldiers, 1856, was "Head Spring". Present name given by first permanent settlers, Mexican farmers.

Miller, Lyles and Murphy in 1871 began large-scale commercial irrigation. ...

Children's Hospital

Here stood the first Children's Hospital of Washington, DC. Opened as a rented rowhouse in 1871, the hospital had a capacity of 12 beds and had only four doctors on staff. Now internationally recognized, Children's National Medical Center is proud ...

Cast Iron Whipple Truss Bridge, 1869

This bridge was designed and built by Squire Whipple (1804-1887), a Union college graduate, class of 1830. Originally erected over the Erie Canal at Fultonville in Montgomery County, the bridge was moved after the canal closed in 1917 to the ...

Abbott Baptist Church

Organized in 1876 as the Liberty Grove Baptist Church by 13 founding members, this congregation met in the Liberty Grove Schoolhouse 2 miles south of here. Renamed the Abbott Baptist Church in 1879, the church moved to Abbott in 1885. ...

Little Texas Tabernacle and Campground

The "Little Texas" Methodist Tabernacle and Campground site of Camp meetings since the 1850's. The Tabernacle-a place of worship-was built by black and white settlers of the area.

The original structure was made of hand-hewn timbers, wooden pegs, handsplit shingles ...

Whipple Iron Truss Bridge

Gift of the Citizens of Montgomery County

Originally built by Squire Whipple across the Enlarged Erie Canal at Sprakers in 1869

This type of bridge was adopted by the Canal Commissioners in the 1850s as the standard iron bridge to cross the ...

The Shiloh Baptist Church

The Shiloh Baptist Church was constituted on March 27, 1852. Shortly thereafter, a house of worship was erected on what is now the present church site. The earliest marked grave in the church cemetery bears the date of 1854. A ...

Penn-Craft

This experimental community for coal miners unemployed during the Depression was developed, 1937-43, by the American Friends Service Committee. On the 200-acre tract, fifty families built their stone houses, a cooperative store, and a knitting factory. A model for other ...

Crossing the Potomac at Rowser's Ford

J.E.B. Stuart's Most Difficult Achievement

Late afternoon on June 27, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart began assembling his cavalry brigades at Dranesville. To avoid the Union Army of the Potomac (90,000-strong) then crossing the Potomac upstream at Edwards Ferry, Stuart ordered ...

Gist's Plantation

Christopher Gist, the Ohio Company surveyor who went to Fort LeBoeuf with Washington, settled here in 1753. In 1754, Washington halted his campaign here and retreated to Fort Necessity. Pursuing French destroyed the plantation.

Marker is on University Drive (U.S. 119) ...