Patty Cannon and the Tangent Line

Kidnapping, Murder, and the Reverse Underground Railroad 

on Mason & Dixon's Line

Wheeling was the Capital of Virginia

Sic Semper Tyrannis -- Liberty and Union

During the Civil War, the capital of Virginia was the city of Wheeling in the northern panhandle of what is now West Virginia.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Riley Farm House in North Bethesda

Roney's Point

The Old Stone Tavern on the National Road

This 1963 WVA Historic Commission marker begins in the middle of the story.

L'Enfant was buried here

This cenotaph in the back yard of the Pallotine Seminary at Green Hill in Chillum, Maryland, marks the spot where Pierre L'Enfant was buried in 1825.

Beginning of the Territory of Columbia

The south corner marker of the District of Columbia

Laugh and the World Laughs With You....

John A. Joyce stole a poem and took it to his grave.