Big Bull Falls • Birthplace of Wausau

In the early 1800s, timber supplies were coming to an end in the eastern United States. The Westward Expansion—the settlement of the prairies and mountainous regions west of the Mississippi—was driving the hunger for more timber with which to build ...

Crisis in Tapp Field

Battle of the Wilderness

Here on the morning of May 6, 1864, Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his army faced perhaps their greatest crisis. Soon after dawn, hundreds of disorganized Confederates tumbled from the woods to your left, driven by ...

Widow Tapp’s Field

Battle of the Wilderness

Few families of modest means became so famous. In this field lived widow Catherine Tapp, who with other family members eked out an existence from the poor soil. The Tapps occupied a lopsided log cabin about 300 ...

China Camp

Ca. 1895

This building served as lodging for many Bayside Cannery workers who normally lived in San Francisco or other distant cities. In addition to dorm rooms, the building also contained a kitchen and dining hall. During the cannery’s operation, this ...

Summit Opera House

The building on this site was designed in 1893 for the Women's Temperance Union by architect Theodore Mead, Jr. In return for title to the property, Civil War veteran Joel G. Van Cise completed the construction and provided the W.C.T.U. ...

Denmark Depot

Denmark Beginnings

The town was originally known as Graham's

Turnout, when the South Carolina Canal &

Railroad line came through in the 1830s.

There were 16turnouts, or pull-offs for

passing, on the line with watering tanks

and woodsheds. Its name was changed to

Denmark in 1893 ...

"The Pines"

Frontiers to Mountaineers Heritage Tourism

The home of Charles Clark and Persis Hagans McGrew was built in 1841, with additions in 1869. The building reflects the Federal and Italianate architectural styles and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places ...

House of Pierre Van Cortlandt

General George Washington

with his aides

slept in this house many nights

while making Peekskill

their headquarters in 1776, 1777 & 1778.

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It was the house of

Pierre Van Cortlandt,

member of Colonial Assembly,

member of the 2nd., 3rd., and 4th.

Provincial Congress,

President of the Committee

of Public Safety,

a framer ...

Preston County Courthouse

Frontiers to Mountaineers Heritage Tourism

First settled in 1807, Kingwood was named for the grove of trees located where the courthouse now stands. On January 19, 1818, the Commonwealth of Virginia created Preston as its 35th county. Kingwood from its beginning ...

Post Rock Scenic Byway

[History related excerpts from the marker]

Side A

The Midland Hotel

in Wilson was built in 1899 as the most magnificent facility in the Midwest. Featured in the 1973 movie Paper Moon, the hotel was recently restored back to its original splendour.

Wilson is ...