U.S.S. Mahopac

A heavily armored Monitor which

joined the attack on Charleston

in 1864 during the Civil War. In

1865 in the Battle for Fort Fisher

it took 8 hits, no serious damage.

Marker is at the intersection of South Lake Blvd (U.S. 6) and Sycamore Road, ...

Graveyard Of The Richmond Covenanter Church Reformed Presbyteria

Here lie buried many of the Scotch Irish pioneers, who, in 1772, under the leadership of the Rev. William Martin, founded one of the first Covenanter churches in upper South Carolina.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 901 and ...

La Playa Trail

The Oldest Commercial Trail

in the

Western United States

Courtesy hmdb.org

La Playa Trail

JEDEDIAH STRONG SMITH

Pathfinder of the Sierras

Here completed the first trail from

The Atlantic to the Pacific, Jan. 1827

Marker is at the intersection of Presidio Drive and Taylor Street, on the left when traveling south on Presidio Drive.

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Agua Caliente Ranch and Hot Springs

Agua Caliente Ranch

In 1873, Peter B. Bain filed the first formal claim to the land surrounding Agua Caliente Spring. Bain and a partner, Marion T. Beckwith, began a dairy cattle operation by bringing cows north from Sonora. Bain built a ...

Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery

The Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery was founded in 1882 by the Gospel Pilgrim Society, a fraternal organization, to furnish respectable funerals and burial places for Athens-area African Americans. Popular in the nineteenth century, such societies offset funeral costs and ensured a ...

Birthplace of Darius M. Couch

Two miles east

Birthplace of

Darius M. Couch

Major General, U. S. A.

Commander 2d Corps, Army of

Potomac, at Fredericksburg

and Chancellorsville, 1862-63

Marker is on Sodom Road, on the left when traveling east.

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Donn Vickers Gazebo in Thurber Park

Donn Vickers served as the executive director of the Thurber House from 1985 through 2001. As executive director, Donn was responsible for many accomplishments including the development of Thurber Park and the construction of this gazebo.

In recognition of Donn's commitment ...

Smith's Division, Sixth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Smith's Division, Sixth Army Corps,

Maj. Gen. William F. Smith, Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Smith's Division left camp between Crampton's Pass and Rohrersville, in Pleasant Valley, at 5:30 a.m., of the 17th, crossed the Antietam at Pry's Ford and arrived at the front ...

An Uneasy Partnership

The Battle of the Wilderness

At the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, Grant would not only struggle against Lee’s army, but also against the conservative, sometimes timid, methods of the Union Army of the Potomac. George G. Meade, ...