Mountains: Refuge and Healing

Clingmans Dome is a sacred mountain to the Cherokees, where the Magic Lake was once seen. The Great Spirit told the Cherokees that, “if they love me, if they love all their brothers and sisters, and if they love the ...

Beaver Creek Skirmish / Capture of Provisions at Flat Rock

(Front)

American forces under Major William R. Davie had captured a British convoy July 21, 1780, and were retreating with prisoners mounted two to the horse when ambushed by British several miles west of here on Beaver Creek. Nearly ...

Wadboo Barony: Francis Marion’s Last Headquarters

Wadboo was a Native American name given to the enormous landholding of James Colleton, a son of Sir John Colleton, who was one of the original eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony. Called a barony according to the Proprietors’ ...

29th Ohio Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):29th Ohio Infantry

1st Brig. 2nd Div. 12th Corps.

This memorial is erected by the

State of Ohio

(Left):Gettysburg

July 2d and 3d 1863

Engaged 332 - Killed 7

Wounded 31 - 2 mortally

Total loss 38

(Back):Principal

Battles

Winchester 1862

Port Republic - June 3, 1862

Cedar Mountain

Chancellorsville

Gettysburg

Lookout Mountain

Dug ...

The 14th Indiana Infantry

The 14th Indiana Infantry 1st Brigade

3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps Colonel William

Harrow commanding fought 70 yards east of

this position and parallel with this road

from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. September 17th, 1862

Officers and men engaged 320

officers killed 2, men killed ...

The Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

(Front Side):

2nd Brig. 3rd Div. 2nd A.C.

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Advanced to this point in a charge

about 9:30 A.M., September 17th, 1862

then fell back eighty-eight yards

to a cornfield fence

and held position heavily engaged

nearly two hours; then was sent to

the support of the first brigade

of ...

Quinby Bridge & Shubrick’s Plantation: The Disastrous “Raid of t

In the summer of 1781, with the British hold on the interior of South Carolina significantly weakened, Continental commander Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Greene sent Brig. Gen. Thomas Sumter, with Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and Lt. Col. Henry “Light Horse Harry” ...

Cannon Point - California Volunteers Memorial

Dedicated

To the memory of

Company K

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6th Regiment

California Volunteers

May 27, 1863 – May 27, 1931

Marker is on State Highway 49, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

William F. Poe Plaza

William F. Poe Plaza is named in honor of William F. Poe, Sr. in recognition of the many significant improvements he initiated in downtown Tampa during his five years of service as Mayor of Tampa from October 1974 to October ...

Flat Creek Baptist Church

This church, organized July 4, 1776 by Rev. George Pope, a native of Virginia, held its first meetings in a brush arbor on this site and was known as the Upper Fork of Lynches Creek until it was renamed Flat ...