Barnie Jordan Jr. Memorial Highway

Named In Honor

of

Native of Edgefield

County

Longtime Resident of

Richland County

Born 1909 Died 1980

Who during 35 years

as a general contractor

built more than 1,000

miles of roads, streets

and highways

in South Carolina

including this ...

J.P. Morgan Building (23 Wall Street)

Exploring Downtown

At the corner of Wall and Broad streets, the financial crossroads of the world, sits the House of Morgan. J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., the capitalist’s capitalist – known throughout the world of finance, sought out by presidents and potentates ...

Lincoln Knob Creek Farm

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

lived on this 228 acre farm,

1811-1816. He wrote in 1860

"My earliest recollection is

of the Knob Creek place."

A younger brother was born here.

Marker is on Bardstown Road (U.S. 31E).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Beginning Point of the Louisiana Purchase Survey

This stone marks the base established Nov.10,1815

from which the lands of the Louisiana Purchase were surveyed by the United States Engineers. The first survey from this point was made to satisfy the claims of the soldiers of the war of ...

Disabled American Veterans

(Side 1)

Disabled American Veterans Formed December 25, 1920.

Birmingham Chapter No. 4 Chartered January 25, 1926.

This Memorial Dedicated To Our Military Forces And To All Who Have Given Their Blood And Lives That The Republic Might Live Forever.

How Sleep The Brave ...

Hexamar's (New Jersey) Battery

September 17, 1862

——————

From a position about 60 yards south of this point the battery, between 2 and 3 p.m., engaged and silenced the Confederate artillery around the Dunkard Church.

Marker is at the intersection of Smoketown Road and Mummas Lane, on ...

Battery A

1st MD Light Artillery

Maryland

Battery A

1st MD Light Artillery

1st Slocum's Division

6th Franklin's Corps

The battery under the

command of Capt.

John W. Wolcott

occupied a line 100

feet in rear

of this marker and facing

Dunkard Church. Loss

1 killed, 11 wounded.

The monument to the

Maryland troops is

near the Dunkard

Church.

Marker ...

Battery D, 2d U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Battery D, 2nd U.S. Artillery.

Lieut. Edward B. Williston, U.S.A., Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Battery D, 2nd U.S. Artillery, moved from its bivouac near Crampton's Pass on the morning of the 17th and went into position south of the Smoketown Road, its center ...

KATY Caboose #127

KATY CABOOSE #127 became a landmark in the City of New Franklin on January 3, 1992. The voluntary assistance of dedicated citizens and generous donations of friends across the country made this possible.

CABOOSE #127 was in the service of the ...

Batteries A and C 4th U.S. Artillery

U.S.A.

Batteries A and C 4th U.S. Artillery.

Lieut. Evan Thomas, U.S.A., Commanding.

(September 17, 1862.)

Batteries A and C (consolidated), 4th U.S. Artillery (6 guns), relieved Battery I, 1st U.S. Artillery just north of this point and went into position, the left of ...