Ancient Works WV26
On a ridge between Armstrong and Loop creeks across the river are extensive prehistoric stone ruins whose walls are several miles long, and enclose a large area. Many of these stones are from the valley below the old wall.

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David Morgan WV186
Near this spot, 1779, David Morgan killed two Indians, of whose attack on his two children he had been warned in a strange dream. Morgan lived on a farm on the Monongahela River between Paw Paw and Prickett Creeks.

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Frontier Days In Rawlins County KS85
Travel is so smooth and effortless today that it is hard to visualize its hazards in the mid-nineteenth century. For example, in June, 1859, four mules pulling a Denver-bound Pike's Peak Express stagecoach-six days and 450 miles out from Leavenworth-were terrified by Indians a few miles northeast of here. Plunging down a precipitous bank, the animals upset the coach and its best known passenger, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune. Greeley was soon rescued "and taken to Station 17, a few yards beyond, where the good woman dressed his galling wounds." There were other more serious encounters with the Indians. On April 23, 1875, forty men of the Sixth U.S. Cavalry attacked seventy-five Northern Cheyennes on Sappa Creek, fourteen miles south. Two soldiers and more than a score of Indians were killed. A Cheyenne raid in the autumn of 1878 brought death to more than thirty settlers on Sappa and Beaver Creeks here in Rawlins and adjoining Decatur counties. Thousands of cattle were driven through this area in 1876-1885, plodding the Western cattle trail from Texas through Dodge City to Ogallala, Nebraska. Atwood, established in 1879, is the seat of Rawlins county, organized in 1881.

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Crab Orchard 2C2
A battle here on Aug. 13, 1794, between frontiersmen under Lt. McClellan and Creek Indians, resulted in the repulse of the Creeks and the killing of four white men. A famous camping place on the Cumberland Road, the Crab Orchard Tavern stood on the small hill 200 yards northwest from 1802 to 1925.

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Buchanan's Station 3A10
One of Cumberland settlements, established here in 1780. The fort was attacked Sept. 30, 1792, by about 300 Creeks and Lower Cherokees under Chiachattalla. Aided by the heroism and efficiency of Mrs. Buchanan and other women in the stockade, the attack was repulsed and Chiachattalla was killed.

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John Sevier Place 1E80
2.3 miles south on Neuberts Springs Road is located the Marble Springs Farm of John Sevier, Tennessee's first governor (1796- 1801 and 1803-1809). Long known as the "Governor's Old Place," it was originally a frontier station used by immigrants on the trace from the mouth of French Broad to the lower settlements of Nine Mile and Pistol Creeks.

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