Sherburne Tannery

Near site of old

Sherburne Tannery

Est. by John Sherburne

about 1790. After clearing

land the business brought

him over $100,000.

Marker is on Batter Street (County Route 94) near North Road, on the right when traveling east.

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The "Hattie Butner"

A nine passenger Concord stagecoach built in 1872 for Edwin T. Clemmons by the Abbot-Downing Co. of Concord, New Hampshire. Named for his wife Harriet (Hattie) Butner. A gift to the people of Clemmons by the Wachovia Historical Society in ...

Battlefield of Seven Pines

In the abatis occupying this ground and covering the second Federal line, the advance of Rodes' Brigade was halted by heavy fire after sunset, May 31,1862. The Confederate dead in this last charge were never removed. They still slumber hereabout.

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Basilica of the Annunciation

“And the Word became flesh”

Historians tell that the Grotto and its surroundings, being the site of the Annunciation were turned into a worship place in the 1st and 2nd Century.

-Early sources referred to the place as being “The House of ...

Blount County

A County Older Than the State

Created Feb. 7, 1818 by Alabama Territorial Legislature from lands ceded by the Creek Indian Nation. Named for the Tennessee Governor W. G. Blount, who sent militia under Andrew Jackson to punish the Creeks for ...

Massacre at Long Beach

October 25, 1782, a British vessel ran aground near Barnegat City and was captured by patriot militiamen under Capt. Andrew Steelman. That night, while sleeping on the beach, Steelman and his men were massacred by Tory raiders led by John ...

Replica of The Statue of Liberty

With the faith and courage of

their forefathers who made

possible the freedom of these

United States

The Boy Scouts of America

Dedicate this copy of the

Statue of Liberty as a Pledge

of everlasting Fidelity and

Loyalty

The Crusade ...

Union Baptist Church And Cemetery

Union Baptist Church was organized in 1834 by 18 or 20 members from Canaan Church. The Libscomb area was then known as East End. Members of the Rockett and Ware families donated the original two acreas of this site and ...

Baptist Church

Baptist

Church

Erected 1793

Elijah Herrick 1st Pastor

Marker is on Polin Road (County Route 128) north of Oak Ridge Road (County Highway 129), on the right when traveling west.

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Belview Heights Neighborhood

The Corey Land Company, a group of prominent local businessmen headed by Robert Jemison, Jr., developed Belview Heights as a neighborhood for the professional employees of U.S. Steel in the 1910's. Extending the grid system being used in Ensley over ...