Sierra County, California

California gained statehood on September 8, 1850. It did so comprised of 27 counties with this area a part of Yuba County.

“The disadvantages of belonging to Yuba County were early felt; Marysville was too distant and a county government located ...

137th New York Infantry

3d Brigade, 2d Division

(Front):137th N.Y. Inf'y

3d Brig. 2d Div.

12th Corps

(Left):The 137th

Regiment

of New York

Infantry

held this

position

July 2d 1863,

and until the

retreat of

the Rebel Army.

(Back):Casualties

Killed 40,

Wounded 87,

Missing 10.

(Right):For its services

in this

and many other

great battles

of the war

it holds a

proud position

in the history

of the

"Great Rebellion"

Marker is ...

Weise & Bradford Store

1879

On this northwest corner of the square, the former Hotel Eureka (better known as the Franklin House) once stood. It served as the old stage coach house and was "the best house in town, two stories high, with a ...

5th Maryland Infantry

Maryland

5th Md Infantry

3rd Max Weber's Brigade.

3rd French's Division.

2nd Sumner's Corps.

Advanced to the knoll

above the bloody lane.

300 feet in the rear of

of this marker. Loss. 43

killed 123 wounded.

The monument to the

Maryland troops is

near the Dunkard

Church.

Marker is on Richardson Avenue, on ...

First Settlement

About five miles southwest is Dunkard Bottom, where Dr. Thomas Walker found a settlement in 1750. The fort there was built about 1756 and was the first fort in Virginia west of New River. The first store and first mill ...

7th Ohio Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):7th Ohio

Infantry

1st Brigade 2d Division

12th Corps

July 1, 2, 3 1863

(Left):Dulce et Decorum est

Pro Patria Mori

7th Ohio Infantry

————Arrived near Little Round Top evening of July 1 on July 2, held positions on Culp's Hill from morning until 6 ...

First City Hall and Fire House

completed July 31, 1934

The building cost $15,000 and took 5 months to complete. "For the first time in Greenville's 119 years of history in which great progress was made in every other direction, the city really had its own building ...

Ammons Family Cemetery

(Front)

The family cemetery of Joshua Ammons (1756-1833), veteran of the American Revolution, is all that remains of his 500-acre plantation near the Three Creeks. Ammons, a native of Virginia, moved to S.C. by 1775, when he enlisted in the 3rd ...

Fort Fair Lawn: An Archeaological Treasure

Fair Lawn Plantation was an enormous property granted to Sir Peter Colleton, oldest son of Sir John Colleton, one of the original eight Lords Proprietors of the Carolina colony. During the Revolutionary War, the British army first occupied the plantation ...

Site - Cassville Female College

A large brick structure erected 1853.

May 19, 1864: Skirmishers of Polk´s A.C. [CS] withdrew from this ridge E. to Cassville when pressed back by Butterfield´s (3d) Div., 20th A.C. [US], from the Hawkins Price house.

Battery C, 1st Ohio Lt. Art., ...