Get Up Bell

In the early 1900's when Cliffside Mill was built, a bell tower was erected to house this bell. It towered above the mill and looked out over the town. This bell was named the "Get Up Bell" by the people ...

Why is it called Big Bull Falls?

If you were a french voyageur in the 1600s or arrived with George Stevens in 1838, you would have heard and seen large rapids churning and bubbling here in front of you. Without dams, the river was much shallower than ...

First Battle of Petersburg

Kautz’s Effort Stopped Here

In May 1864, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched attacks on Confederate armies across the South. He accompanied Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the Potomac as it fought Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia from ...

Charles Benbow House

Circa 1823

Charles Benbow was born on December 6, 1787 to Thomas and Hannah Benbow. Charles married Mary Sanders on December 11, 1811, and they had seven children.

This Quaker style house was conservative in plan, though Charles' application to detail was ...

Third Brigade

Third Division - Second Corps

Army of the Potomac

Second Corps Third Division

Third Brigade

Col. George L. Willard

Col. Eliakim Sherrill

Lieut. Col. James M. Bull

39th (4 cos.), 111th, 125th, 126th. New York Infantry

July 2 Took position in the morning along Cemetery Ridge at the ...

Wabash County (Indiana) Honor Rolls

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Forever Honoring our heroes

who gave their lives - - and

Dedicated to the men and women

of Wabash County who served

their Country in armed conflict

Erected by the grateful

Citizens of Wabash County ...

The Oconee Electric Membership Corporation

Dudley, Georgia

To honor the founders whose vision transformed this rural area from darkness to the splendor of light; who serve as our reminder that no job is too difficult

if the cause is just and the people are determined.

Incorporators:

Paul J. ...

Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery

Captain Dunbar R. Ransom, U.S.A. Commanding,

(September 16-17, 1862.)

On the evening of September 16th, Battery C, 5th U.S. Artillery came into battery 370 yards east of the Hagerstown Pike, on the south edge of the North Woods ...

Second Baptist Church

On Green Square

Was founded December 26, 1802

by Rev. Henry Cunningham and

Twenty-five other Baptists.

General William T. Sherman and

Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton

met with the Negroes of this city

and the newly freed slaves at

Second Baptist Church when Savannah

surrendered to General Sherman ...

Asbury M. E. Church

Founded 1796 by Rev. John Barnet Matthias, itinerant preacher. Church first incorporated in 1807. This building erected 1837.

Marker is at the intersection of South Washington Street and West Elizabeth Street, on the right when traveling south on South Washington Street. ...