The Most Insignificant Justice

Gabriel Duvall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, built Marietta in 1812, and died here in  1844.

Patty Cannon and the Tangent Line

Kidnapping, Murder, and the Reverse Underground Railroad 

on Mason & Dixon's Line

The Bernard Baruch Bench of Inspiration

in Lafayette Square, Washington, DC
 

George Washington's Well

Fort Loudoun in Winchester, Virginia

Col. Dahlgren's Leg

At the Washington Navy Yard

Within This Wall Is Deposited The Leg of Col. Ulric Dahlgren U.S.V. Wounded July 6th 1863 While Skirmishing In The Streets of Hagerstown With The Rebels After The Battle of Gettysburgh

The Death of Ross

Beside the North Point Road, September 12, 1814

At this spot, on September 12, 1814, General Robert Ross died. He had been mortally wounded in conflict approximately 1-1/2 miles northwest of here, at the present site of the Aquila Randall monument, and carried by stretcher to this point. He was later interred in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Erected by the Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society and Patapsco Neck Bicentennial Committee.

I Cannot Tell a Lie.

Ferry Farm:

A house that's no longer there, where several famous historic events didn't actually happen.

Dr. Houck's Acre

Battle Acre in Dundalk, Maryland

Virginia Hensley [Patsy Cline]

 608 Kent Street in Winchester, Virginia

The La Plata Tornado -- 1926

In the Heart of Charles County 

Originally on Charles Street (Rt. 6) near Somerset Street, this marker is now on Willow Lane, the approach to Milton M. Somers Middle School from Charles Street in La Plata.

Big Guns

At Fort Foote

Dr. Beanes' Grave

Upper Marlboro

Dr. William Beanes was an important if small player in the pageant of the Star-Spangled Banner.

The Indian Queen Tavern

George Washington House

The Kidnapping of Pocahontas

on US 1, at Potomac Creek

The Bladensburg Dueling Grounds

We find this 1955 historical marker on Bladensburg Road at the Maryland/D.C. line just east of the IHOP at 38th Street. It declaims the "Dark and Bloody Grounds" where 19th century Washington gentlemen came to shoot each other.

Moncure Conway

 A Man Who Freed Himself ...

The Van Buren Elm

On Main Street in Plainfield, Indiana, in front of the Friends Meetinghouse, we find a boulder with a DAR plaque marking the Van Buren Elm.

Slave Pens in Alexandria

Lest We Forget...

1315 Duke Street in Alexandria is a stark reminder of the coastal trade in human beings, sold south, from the mid-Atlantic to the deep south in the years preceding the Civil War.

Dowden's Ordinary -- The Daughters' Mistake

In 1915, Robert Bruce, touring manager of AAA, drove along a dirt road marked with red, white and blue "National Old Trails Road" markers near Clarksburg, Maryland. He observed a large boulder recently "erected by Daughters of the American Revolution to mark the site of Dowden's Ordinary the second camp of Braddock in Maryland." In his small book with a long name, he  remarked that "A portion of this old building is still standing, much dilapidated, after a hundred and sixty years."



The National Road : most historic thoroughfare in the United States, and eastern division of the National Old Trails ocean-to-ocean highway, Baltimore and Washington to Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland, Uniontown, Brownsville and Washington, Pennsylvania, and Wheeling, West Virginia by Robert Bruce.

   

The Last Indian Outrage

As Jan and I were driving down the Shenandoah Valley Pike (Virginia Route 11), we stopped at this Virginia historical marker.

Historical marker, 2 miles south of Woodstock, Virginia

I remembered seeing it in the guidebook I left back in our Strasburg motel room. But...