The Liberty Trail History Makers

Explore colonial Halifax at a preserved Revolutionary-era town where historic homes, public spaces, and hands-on exhibits reveal how North Carolinians lived, worked, and governed in the 1700s. From influential leaders’ residences to springs, markets, and river landings, the site brings everyday life in a pivotal American community into sharp focus.

Nestled outside the traditional bounds of the South Carolina colony is the Presbyterian church where Andrew Pickens committed his time as an elder following the Revolution. In the adjacent cemetery lie the graves of several American soldiers who had fought by Pickens' side during the war.

Wear’s Fort was a Revolutionary War–era settler’s fort built in 1783 by Colonel Samuel Wear to protect early settlers from Native American raids, located near present‑day Pigeon Forge. Colonel Samuel...

The site of the British surrender to the Americans on October 17, 1777.

Historic Burnham Tavern Historical Marker Database Just off Route 1 in Machias sits the Burnham Tavern, built in 1770. Inside its yellow clapboard walls, a group of townspeople hatched a plan in June...

Fort Western, the oldest surviving wooden fort. Maine Atlas On the eastern bank of the Kennebec River in Augusta stands the country’s oldest surviving wooden fort, built in 1754 as a fortified fur...

Thomas Amis House, Rogersville, TN Historical Marker Database Stone house built by Thomas Amis between 1781 & 1783. He served as Captain and Commissary of North Carolina troops in the Revolution and...

President James Monroe invited the Marquis de Lafayette to visit the United States, his adopted country. Lafayette’s tour of all 24 states in 1824 and 1825 drew large crowds and sparked a renewal of...

Liberty Hall was home to trailblazing governors, congressmen, senators, assembly persons, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs. Inhabited by William Livingston, New Jersey’s first elected governor and a signer of the United States Constitution, the 14-room Georgian-style home evolved over time into a 50-room Victorian mansion.

The second engagement of the Boston Campaign, the Battle of Chelsea Creek marked a stunning defeat for the British as their resources began to dwindle in Boston.

This battleground was the site of three British camps, attacked by Patriot troops on August 6, 1780. It was a fight primarily between countrymen.

Nassau Hall, once the largest stone building in the colonies, housed the College of New Jersey, now known as Princeton. During the Battle of Princeton in 1777, British troops fortified the building as a last stand defense.