The Raider

Morgan and his Raiders

The arrival of Federal troops into Lexington, Kentucky in fall 1861 prompted Lexington native John Hunt Morgan to assemble a band of 17 armed men on horseback to support the Southern cause. The "Lexington Rifle" then rode ...

21st Ohio Infantry

Starkweather's Brigade - Johnson's Division

21st Ohio Infantry.

Starkweather's Brig., Johnson's Div., 14th Corps.

Capt. Charles H. Vantine

Nov. 5, 1863At the opening of the battle, this regiment, with its brigade, occupied the right of the line of earthworks in ...

Higgins House

Arresting Civilians

Early Sunday morning, June 28, 1863, Confederate cavalrymen arrived at merchant John Higgins' house to arrest him, but he had already left for Christ Episcopal Church. Instead they captured Eblen, a 17 year-old Union soldier recuperating here. When ...

Landes-McDonough House

Confederate veteran and capitalist Henry A. Landes (1844-1919) had this house built in 1887-88. Designed by prominent architects George E. Dickey of Houston and D. A. Helmich, the house reportedly provided refuge to some 200 people during the disastrous 1900 ...

Fort Shirley

One of the chain of frontier defenses

of the Province of Pennsylvania

in the French and Indian Wars

stood on this knoll,

built 1756

by

its Commander

the noted Indian trader and agent

George Croghan

here in 1753

at the ...

North Adams Street and Middle Lane Residential Area

The area at North Adams Street and Middle Lane has four of the oldest surviving Rockville homes: 101, 106, and 5 North Adams, and the Beall-Dawson House.

The 1793 portion of the house at 5 North Adams is probably the ...

Ohio at Chattanooga

November 23-25, 1863

The battle of Chattanooga occupied three days; the first, Nov. 23d, Orchard Knob; the second, Lookout Mountain; the third, Missionary Ridge.

Gen. Rosecrans who commanded the Army of the Cumberland until relieved before the battle by Gen. ...

Reed's Fort

Just south of this point stood the house of Adam Reed, Esq. In 1755 it was turned into a fort. Here, with Rangers from Hanover Township, Reed protected the people of the countryside against Indian raids.

Marker is on Allentown ...

Thomas A. Dorsey

Father of Gospel

Thomas Andrew Dorsey, composer of over 400 blues and gospel songs, lived here following his birth in Villa Rica on July 1, 1899. At Mt. Prospect Baptist Church he was exposed to shape-note singing and at home ...

Strand Theater

103 North Main

The Strand Theater occupied this site in 1913. It later was called the Deluxe Theater.

Marker is on Main Street near 1st Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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