Oak Grove Male Academy

Chartered Dec. 16, 1837, this was the first such institution in the Ocoee Purchase; here was its home during its entire existence. An early teacher (1843) was Henry von Aldehoff, a native of Prussia and graduate of Bonn University. This ...

Oak Grove Methodist Church

A direct outgrowth of the New Mill Creek Society organized in 1772 by the Rev. Joseph Pilmoor, the first official Methodist missionary to America. Methodist meetings were held as early as 1770 in the Cutherell home, a regular preaching place ...

Oak Grove Crownstone

Charged with marking the long-disputed boundaries of the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania (including the “Three Lower Counties” of Delaware), English astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon landed in America on November 15, 1763. The following June they traveled to ...

Oak Grove Grange #119

Site of

Chartered June 30, 1896

Charter surrendered 1988

Original building built in 1898 on land owned by H.K. Wright. Grange founded for purpose of cooperative buying to lower costs for farmers.

Marker is on Pittstown Road just south of Locust Grove Road, on ...

Oak Grove Cemetery

Originally called "American Cemetery," Oak Grove Cemetery is located on the 1826 land grant of Empresario Haden Edwards. The leader of the 1826 Fredonian Rebellion, Edwards is interred here. The earliest marked burial on this site is that of Franklin ...

Oakland Grove Presbyterian Church

First called the Church by the Spring, Oakland Grove Church may have been organized as early as 1834, but it was officially established circa 1847 as a mission of Covington Presbyterian Church. A simple brick house of worship constructed during ...

Oak Grove Cemetery Civil War Memorial

(North Face):

Erected under

the auspices of

Woman's Relief

Corps No. 210,

assisted by

R.P. Carpenter

Post No. 41,

and Patriotic

Citizens

1861 to 1865

(West Face):R.P. Carpenter Post No 41

To the memory

of

our noble dead

who freely ...

Oak Grove

Settled in 1700'S. By 1873 only a gristmill, sawmill,

post office and a few homes remained. Town named for oak forests surrounding it.

Marker is on Oak Grove Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oak Grove Baptist Church

(Front text)

This church was organized in 1870 by Revs. John D. Nix, W.H. Shuman, and Jonas Trowell. F.J. Bryan and A.W. Crosby were its first deacons; Rev. Trowell became its first minister. This sanctuary, dedicated in 1871, was built ...

St. Paul Church / Oak Grove

St. Paul Church

One of the first black churches after the Civil War, St. Paul AME began as Oak Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church. Local tradition says that the original small congregation worshipped in the 1850s in the "Bush Arbor;" ...