Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Big Springs Presbyterian Ch

Erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in grateful appreciation of the services of these soldiers of the Revolutionary War who lie buried here.

Lieut. Colonel Samuel Irvine •

Captain William Peebles •

Captain Samuel Felton •

Captain Thomas Buchanan •

Lieut. ...

Big Spring Presbyterian Church

Original log meeting house was erected 1737 near the Big Spring. Church was fully organized, October 1738. Present stone structure was built 1789, and in 1790 the trustees laid out Newville as a town on the church-owned glebe.

Marker is on ...

Big Spring

May 17, 1864: Butterfield's (3d) div., 20th A.C [US], marched this way from Field’s Mill, Coosawattee River, enroute to Kingston & camped at the Smith farm 2 ½ miles N. of Mosteller’s Mills.

May 18: Schofield's 23d A.C [US], marching from ...

Tuscumbia Big Spring

Tuscumbia Big Spring

Big Spring (average daily flow 35,000,000 gallons) provided water for town founded on its banks.

Michael Dickson of Tennessee was first settler (about 1817). Town laid out in 1819 and incorporated as Ococoposo (Cold Water, 1820).

Name changed to ...

Athens Big Spring Memorial Park

Dedicated to the early settlers, men and women who served in the armed forces and kept our country free. August 12, 1989.

Marker can be reached from Beaty Street North east of Market Street/Buck Island Road.

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Big Spring Graveyard

Among those buried here are victims of the Great Cove Massacre of Nov. 1, 1755, at present McConnellsburg. The raid was conducted by Delawares and Shawnees led by Shingas, the Delaware "king." Houses were burned, and about 50 settlers were ...

Big Spring Park

Asa Prior, born in Virginia about 1785, pioneered into this valley and purchased a large tract of land including this spring and Cedar Creek in 1834. In 1852 he deeded the spring and 10 adjacent acres to the City of ...

The Big Spring

The site of Greeneville was a

juncture of two Indian trails, and

the presence of the Big Spring

furnished a stopping off place for

the weary Indian traveler. The

Scotch-Irish pioneers made the

spring the reason for the founding

of Greeneville in 1783. As early as ...

The Big Spring

Our Anchor in Time

“For generations this great spring was the main source of water supply for the town. Before the white man settled around it the Indians and the buffaloes knew it well. It was at the crossing of two ...

The Big Spring

Our Anchor in Time

“For generations this great spring was the main source of water supply for the town. Before the white man settled around it the Indians and the buffaloes knew it well. It was at the crossing of two ...