Battlefield of Seven Pines

Nearby stood "The Twin Houses" from the vicinity of which Confederate Troops moving eastward, charged the Federal Second Line near Seven Pines after they had stormed Casey's Redoubt and the rest of the Federal First Line on May 31, 1862.

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Site of Fort Blount

Established 1853 and used as a place of refuge for the settlers of this community during the Seminole Indian War 1855-1858

Name changed to Bartow 1867

In honor of Confederate General

Francis S. Bartow

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street ...

Indian Effigy Mounds

Smith Park marks the northern limit of a large group of Native American burial mounds that once extended across the southeast shore of Doty Island. Three Effigy mounds are preserved here. The mounds were built between AD 700 and AD ...

Battlefield of Seven Pines

The Federal first line, against which the right wave of the Confederate Army directed the main assault of May 31, 1862, crossed the Williamsburg Road near this spot. Casey’s Redoubt, the centre of Federal resistance on this line, was 200 ...

Battlefield of Seven Pines

In their Eastward attack of May 31, 1862 on Federal troops holding Seven Pines, Rodes' Brigade to the South of this highway and Garland’s Brigade to the North, supported respectively by Rains and G.B. Anderson, came under heavy fire approximately ...

Battlefield of Seven Pines

Nearby stood "The Twin Houses" from the vicinity of which Confederate Troops moving eastward, charged the Federal Second Line near Seven Pines after they had stormed Casey's Redoubt and the rest of the Federal First Line on May 31, 1862.

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Confederate Soldiers Memorial

In memory of the Confederate Soldiers of Pulaski County 1861 - 1865

Marker is at the intersection of North Washington Avenue (U.S. 11) and 1st St NW, on the right when traveling south on North Washington Avenue.

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Richmond Defences

The Dahlgren Raid

Here March 1, 1864, two regiments of Confederate local defence troops under Col. John McAnerney defeated Federal cavalry under Col. Ulric Dahlgren, who sought to destroy Richmond and to release Federal prisoners there. On the same day Kilpatrick ...

Richmond Defences

Kilpatrick’s Raid

At this point, where the intermediate line of the Richmond defences crossed Brook Road, Confederate forces on March 1, 1864, repulsed Kilpatrick’s Raid, undertaken to release Federal prisoners in Richmond. On the same day, another column, under Col. Ulric ...

Fort Basinger

Col. Zachary Taylor had Fort Basinger built in 1837, during the Seminole Wars, on the Kissimmee River 17 miles above its mouth. It was a small stockade which served as a temporary fort and supply station on the line of ...