Maryland, Frederick County, Buckeystown
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To your left is a street scene of the intersection in Buckeystown around 1899. The house immediately on your left was built around 1898 as the residence for the superintendent of the Buckingham School for Boys, located south of town (now ClaggettCenter). The house on the intersection is one of three buildings built of stone quarried from the same vein as the church that was on this site. In 1939, Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, visited this home as he was passing through Buckeystown after visiting Sugarloaf Mountain. He admired the south facing stone wall and stayed for tea. Heading north up the hill and across the creek, note the white frame tannery buildings torn down in 1904, and at the top of the hill can be seen the brick home of George Buckey, now Catoctin Inn. To your right is the Inn at Buckeystown, built as a private residence in 1897 by Charles Keller who made his fortune in the lime and stone business.
Here stood the stone Methodist Episcopal Church and cemetery. The building was constructed in 1824 on 1/2 acre of land donated by Ignatius Davis, with money raised by subscriptions. The church measured 33 feet by 45 feet and cost $1000. Wide galleries lined three sides and seven benches were placed in the center. The Civil War divided Buckeystown, and the church doors were closed when a Northern minister was appointed. According to the History of Carrollton Manor, the building was used as a library for a short time at the turn of the century. In 1905, Charles Thomas, who lived across the street in the white brick house with black shutters, dismantled the church and used the stone for foundations of houses that he built for the Thomas and Son Brick Yard employees and Buckeystown Packing Company employees. These ten houses were built on Buchingham Lane, a short walk uphill to your right. The stone for this church was quarried along the Monocracy River, east of Buckeystown, form a rare iron-rich vein. As you look to your left , two stone buildings across the street and the one on the right were all built of this unusual stone.
Erected by Buckeystown Preservation Society, 1995
(Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
To your left is a street scene of the intersection in Buckeystown around 1899. The house immediately on your left was built around 1898 as the residence for the superintendent of the Buckingham School for Boys, located south of town (now ClaggettCenter). The house on the intersection is one of three buildings built of stone quarried from the same vein as the church that was on this site. In 1939, Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, visited this home as he was passing through Buckeystown after visiting Sugarloaf Mountain. He admired the south facing stone wall and stayed for tea. Heading north up the hill and across the creek, note the white frame tannery buildings torn down in 1904, and at the top of the hill can be seen the brick home of George Buckey, now Catoctin Inn. To your right is the Inn at Buckeystown, built as a private residence in 1897 by Charles Keller who made his fortune in the lime and stone business.Here stood the stone Methodist Episcopal Church and cemetery. The building was constructed in 1824 on 1/2 acre of land donated by Ignatius Davis, with money raised by subscriptions. The church measured 33 feet by 45 feet and cost $1000. Wide galleries lined three sides and seven benches were placed in the center. The Civil War divided Buckeystown, and the church doors were closed when a Northern minister was appointed. According to the History of Carrollton Manor, the building was used as a library for a short time at the turn of the century. In 1905, Charles Thomas, who lived across the street in the white brick house with black shutters, dismantled the church and used the stone for foundations of houses that he built for the Thomas and Son Brick Yard employees and Buckeystown Packing Company employees. These ten houses were built on Buchingham Lane, a short walk uphill to your right. The stone for this church was quarried along the Monocracy River, east of Buckeystown, form a rare iron-rich vein. As you look to your left , two stone buildings across the street and the one on the right were all built of this unusual stone.
Erected by Buckeystown Preservation Society, 1995
(Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The Lime Hill Battlefield, April 14th, 1782. Several hundred yards south west and in front of this marker, a rescue party of eight Patriot men ambushed a war party of thirteen Iroquois Indians who were marching five captives, Mrs. Roswell Franklin and her four children, back to their villages in the Finger Lake region of New York and Canada. The ensuing gun battle between the Indians and the Whites lasted many hours. In front of you, for a short distance in between two 90 degree turns, the township road follows the course of the Great Warriors Path that had been used by Indians for centuries as the main road through the area. In 1779, Sullivan’s 3,500 men, 1200 packhorses and 800 beef cattle widened the Indian path to the status of crude road. Except for the Sullivan Road following the Indian path and a few natural clearings around the springs and wetlands, the whole area would have been covered by mature hardwood forest.
In 1942 Cedar Bog became the first nature preserve in Ohio purchased
with state funds. Efforts to set this wetland aside began in the
1920s through the efforts of Florence Murdock and her daughter.
Efforts intensified in the mid 1930s with help from Walter Brigham
Evens, Jr., and finally came to fruition in 1941 due to the interests
of Champaign County Common Pleas Judge Owens, Governor John
Bicker, and Dr. Edward S. Thomas of the Ohio Historical Society.
This relatively small parcel is an outstanding example of a
prairie/fen complex known as Cedar Swamp that once covered
7,000 acres of the Mad River Valley. Approximately one quarter
of the plant species in Ohio are found here. Cedar Bog also has a
large number of rare species, two of which, the Small Yellow
Lady's Slipper Orchid and Prairie Valerian, occur in Ohio only at
Cedar Bog or one other site.
En française:
After Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston withdrew his army from northern Virginia in March 1862 to defend Richmond, neither Confederate nor Union force occupied Loudoun County permanently. Both armies, however, often passed through. The Confederates' favorite Potomac River crossings were downstream: White's Ford, Edwards Ferry, and Rowser's Ford. The Federals preferred Berlin (present-day Brunswick), Maryland, three miles north of here.
The Lander Cut-off left the Oregon Trail at Burnt Ranch on the Sweetwater River near South Pass City, WY. Frederick Lander surveyed the trail in 1857. Tens of thousands of people passed over the trail during its use. With the Transcontinental Railroad being completed in 1869, emigrant travel over the trail rapidly declined. The last wagons over the trail were observed at Fort Piney, WY between 1910 and 1912. The Lander Cut-off rejoined the Oregon Trail in Idaho northeast of Pocatello at Ross Fork Creek.
Beginning in 1843, emigrants traveled across the continent along what became known as the Oregon Trail. Increased traffic during the 1850's resulted in the first government road construction project in the west. The 345 mile Central Division of the Pacific Wagon Road went from South Pass, Wyoming, to City of Rocks, Idaho, a geologic formation which marked the Division's western boundary. Superintendent Frederick W. Lander of Salem, Massachusetts, supervised construction for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The 256 mile section of the road leading from South Pass to Fort Hall, Idaho is known as the Lander Cut-off. The cut-off traversed this Salt River Valley for 21 miles and paralleled Highway 89 through this area. The new route afforded water, wood, and forage with a new, shorter route to Oregon and California saving wagon trains seven days. Lander, with a crew of 15 engineers, surveyed the route in the summer of 1857. The following summer, 115 men, many recruited from Salt Lake City's Mormon emigrants, constructed the road in less than 90 days at a cost of $67,873. The invention of the automobile led to its abandonment. 
Dry Creek, later called Mt. Pleasant, was settled in 1886. The first public building erected in this area, 1891, was a log schoolhouse also used as a church. Students furnished their own desks and stools. George Hardman, teacher. Osmond Ward, organized September 8, 1901, Andrew M. Neilson, Bishop. Named honored, George Osmond, first president of Star Valley Stake, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Honoring those
1776 - 1976
Mark Twain is reported to have said that Rochester was noted for having a village six miles to its north that was named "CHAR-lotte," but the inhabitants call it Char-LOTT. However it is pronounced, the importance of Charlotte has been interwined with the history of the City of Rochester since 1792. 
Erosion—Nature’s cutting tool—has chiseled away the stone on this spur of Flat Tom Mountain, leaving this giant cockscomb more than 2700 feet above sea level. Several counties may be seen from these cliffs.
In the spring of 1879 a group of pioneers from Bear Lake settled here. Moses Thatcher explored the area, dedicated it as a home for the Latter Day Saints, calling it Star Valley. Freedom and Auburn settled in 1879 and Afton in 1885. The first public building was located on this square. A log house with dirt roof served the settlers as a church, shool (sic), and public meeting place from 1886 to 1892 when it was replaced by a large frame building. The bell on this monument calling the people together could be heard throughout the valley.
