Beaufort County, South Carolina

Exploration and Settlement

1520 - 1711

      In 1520 the Spaniard, Francisco Gordillo, sailing from Hispaniola, stopped near Port Royal Sound long enough to call the place Santa Elena. Fourty-two years later, in 1562, Jean Ribaut and his ...

4th Michigan Infantry

(Front):4th Michigan Inf.try

2nd Brig. 1st Div. 5th Corps.

participated in 53 skirmishes and general engagements

from Bull Run Va. July 21st 1861 to Appomattox Va. April 9th 1865.

(Back):

Mustered in at Adrian Mich.

June 20th 1861

Veterans consolidated ...

97th Ohio Infantry

Wagner's Brig. - Sheridan's Div.

97th Ohio Infantry

Wagner's Brig., Sheridan's Div., 4th Corps.

Lieut. Col. Milton Barnes.

Nov. 25, 1863.

The Regiment participated in the advance of the 23d November on the enemy's central line, and with its brigade in the storming of Missionary ...

Henry Ford at Richmond Hill

In 1925, Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., a leading American automobile pioneer who perfected the assembly line concept of auto manufacturing, began acquiring large tracts of land on both sides of the nearby Ogeechee River. He sponsored extensive agricultural and ...

Old Rye Fort 1675

On this site stood the stone residence of Peter Disbrow, designated by the Rye colonists as the "Rye Fort" when it was offered for protection from the Indian attack during "King Philip's War" of 1675.

Around 1728 the present frame (North) ...

Home Becomes Battlefield

The Civil War affected not only the soldiers who fought but the families whose homes and towns became battlefields. Edmund H. Chambers bought this farm in 1848 and lived here with his family until the Civil War. Although Chambers was ...

Swamp Fox at Ox Swamp

During the American Revolution, on Nov. 8, 1780, General Francis Marion and his brigade lured British Colonel Tarleton and his Green Dragoons about 26 miles from Jack's Creek through the swamps to Ox Swamp, less than 1 mile east of ...

First Army Corps

Anderson's Brigade, Meade's Division

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First Army Corps.

Anderson's Brigade, Meade's Division.

Lieut. Col. Robert Anderson, 9th Penn. Reserve,

Commanding.

Organization.

9th Pennsylvania Reserves, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves,

10th Pennsylvania Reserves, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves.

(September 17, 1862.)

Anderson's Brigade advanced from this point about 6/30 a.m., in support of Gibbon's, Phelps' ...

Union Line of Battle

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Union Line of Battle

Meade's Division.

First Army Corps.

Pennsylvania Reserves.

Evening of September 16, 1862.

Marker is at the intersection of Mansfield Avenue and Dunker Church Road / Old Hagerstown Pike, on the left when traveling east on Mansfield Avenue.

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J. Clifton Toney

In Memory of J. Clifton Toney

Publisher of the Folsom Telegraph

1962 – 1976

His vision resulted in the

Development of the Sutter Street Mall

Marker is on Sutter Street, in the median.

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