Fairfield County Veterans Memorial

For God and Country

we dedicate this memorial

in loving memory of our

veterans, friends, and

relatives who have

served their country so

we may continue to

enjoy freedom and a

democracy.

Duty, Honor, Country

Dedicated November 11, 1985

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 22) and ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

Position of the Confederate Left Wing

On the main Confederate line, eight miles long, which here crossed the Old Church Road, the Federal Army, June 3, 1864, made numerous futile and costly charges. The heaviest of these were three miles southeastward ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

Main Line of Anderson’s Left Wing

The Confederate earthworks here crossing this road were occupied May 31 – June 12, 1864, by the Left Division “Fields” of the First Corps. Then commanded by R.H. Anderson. Heavily attacked on June 3, this ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

The Confederate Main Line

Here Longstreet’s Corps, with Breckinridge and A.P. Hill’s Corps to the southward, repulsed on June 3, 1864, fourteen assaults from the East against the confederate main line. The federal losses, about 7000, were the heaviest ever sustained ...

World's First Pay Telephone

World's

First Pay Telephone

Invented By William Gray

And Developed By George A. Long

Was Installed On This Corner In 1889

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Central Row, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

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O Henry's Family

William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910, better known by his pen name O Henry, gained fame as a gifted short story writer. O Henry's parents, Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter, his grandparents, Sidney and Ruth Worth Porter, ...

Our Confederate Dead

[Front]

Erected by the

James B. Gordon Chapter

United Daughters of the Confederacy

October 1905

Winston-Salem, N.C.

[Back]

"Sleeping, but glorious,

Dead in Fame's portal,

Dead, but victorious,

Dead, but immortal!

They gave us great glory,

What more could they give?

They have left us a story,

A story to live!"

[Right]

In Camp on fame's ...

Burial of Peter Lassen

“In November 1859 – almost half a year after Lassen’s death, another party with Joe Kitts, Antone Storff, and John Tutt, began a new trip back to Black Rock. The men were going to bring the remains of Peter Lassen’s ...

23rd Battalion Virginia Infantry

C.S.A.

First stationed across the highway and on the extreme right of the Confederate line, the 23rd Battalion was later moved to support the 19th Va. Cavalry on the left flank. After an initial charge that temporarily halted the Federal advance, ...

Battle of Cold Harbor

The Field of the Heaviest Losses

This was approximately the farthest point gained and held by the Federals in their assaults of June 3, 1864 on the Confederate main line, 130 yards to the west. The heaviest losses sustained by the ...