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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55J_randolph-macon-college_Ashland-VA.html
Chartered in 1830 in Boydton, this institution is the oldest Methodist-affiliated college in continuous operation in the United States. It is named for statesmen John Randolph of Virginia and Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina. The college was move…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55I_randolph-macon-college_Ashland-VA.html
Chartered in 1830 in Boydton, this institution is the oldest Methodist-affiliated college in continuous operation in the United States. It is named for statesmen John Randolph of Virginia and Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina. The college was move…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55H_reedy-river-falls_Greenville-SC.html
The falls of the Reedy River were a power source for industry, but they were also the town's chief price in the early nineteenth century. The subject of a Cherokee myth (a brave was said to have thrown himself over the falls because of unrequited …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55G_brewster-forge-site_New-Windsor-NY.html
Parts of Great Chain designed to obstruct British navigation of Hudson, 1776-1778, fabricated here during American Revolution.Mem. Louis San Giacomo 1916-1980
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55F_the-cherokees_Greenville-SC.html
Greenville County was Indian Territory before the Revolution. European settlers were forbidden to live here until 1777, when Cherokee Indians were forced to cede this land to the new state. Most of modern day Greenville was hunting land used by th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55E_fort-frederick_Big-Pool-MD.html
Built by the Maryland colony in 1756 during the French and Indian War, Fort Frederick's stone walls surrounded three large buildings. The colonists abandoned the frontier fort in 1759, when the threat of Indian raids subsided. During the Revolutio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55D_falls-place_Greenville-SC.html
Greenville was a major textile center by the beginning of the twentieth century, and local cotton growers and brokers needed storage places for the harvested cotton. West End banker H.L. Gassaway and Dr. Davis Furman purchased land immediately sou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55C_cradle-of-greenville_Greenville-SC.html
Near this sign, before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Pearis, best known of all Pre-Revolutionary settlers in the surrounding Cherokee Indian nation, established his home with a grist mill and trading post. Around this lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55B_knox-headquarters_New-Windsor-NY.html
Home of John Ellison, erected 1754 by William Bull for Col. Thomas Ellison. Used various times between 1779-1783 by General's Knox, Greene & Gates during the Revolutionary War.New Windsor Town Historian
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM55A_confederates-rally_Manassas-VA.html
This field was a scene of confusion. Shells were exploding all around. Hot, tired, shot-up during the retreat from Matthews Hill, Confederate units had fallen out of line and were milling about. They felt they'd lost the battle and maybe the war.
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