First Baptist Church

Organized in 1820, this is the church's third downtown location. The elaborate Gothic tower is all that remains of the Matthews & Thompson building that stood at this location from 1886 to 1967. The Baptist Sunday School Board, now one ...

Placer County Bank

Historical Landmark

First home of

Placer Co. Bank

Estb. Oct. 5, 1887

Moved uptown 1913 & merged with

Bank of California 1957

Marker is on Commercial Street north of Lincoln Way, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Honoring the Dead of the Battle of Bentonville

“Time may teach us to forgive, but it can never make us forget.”

- Confederate Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton, memorial address at Bentonville, March 20, 1895.

By the evening of March 22, 1865 both the Union and Confederate armies had vacated ...

Jacob Feldberg – L. Newman, Clothing

Historical Landmark

Jacob Feldberg – L. Newman, Clothing

1850’s & 1860’s

Magnolia Saloon – Star Bakery

& Restaurant – H. Stone Groceries

Marker is on Commercial Street west of Court Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Sunbury Road

The route intersecting here is the Old Sunbury Road, one of the longest vehicular thoroughfares of the post-Revolutionary Georgia. It was laid out in the early 1790’s from Greensboro via today’s Sparta, Swainsboro and Taylor’s Creek to the town of ...

First New Jersey Brigade

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer's Battery

September 17, 1862

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This stone marks the right of the Brigade when a little after noon, it was formed to charge the woods north of the Dunkard Church. The order was countermanded and the ...

Lou Brissie

Lou Brissie was born in Anderson, South Carolina. After getting his career off to a promising start, he suffered a devastating injury in Italy during World War II. Brissie convinced doctors not to amputate his leg, and three years later, ...

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.

Marker ...

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 ...

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 ...