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The Battle of Piqua, or Picawey

Before you lay Piqua, or Picawey, a Shawnee settlement where 1,000 Kentucky militiamen under Col. George Rogers Clark defeated an alliance of Shawnee, Delaware, Mingo and Wyandot warriors on August 8, 1780 in the largest battle fought west of the ...

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John Dangberg House

This house was designed for John Dangberg by Frederic DeLongchamps, a noted architect throughout the West. Construction was completed in 1912. John was one of the Dangberg Brothers who founded Minden in 1906. Dangberg Land and Livestock Company established the ...

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Fredericksburg Campaign

December 13, 1862. This highway, the Old Richmond Stage Road, here passes wartime Smithfield, now the Fredericksburg Country Club. Out of the ravine alongside the present golf links (your left front), Meade’s Division emerged to form lines of battle and ...

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Rio Puerco Bridge

This Parker through truss located on the historic Route 66 was built in 1933. It was fabricated by the Kansas City Structural Steel Company and erected by F.D. Shufflebarger of Albuquerque. Its 250 foot long length is one of the ...

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Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich

Very Reverend Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich

The First Administrator of the Serbian Church In America – Born in San Francisco on June 21, 1863 – Died November 30, 1940 in the Monastery of Zitcha at the Age of Seventy-Seven.

Marker is on North ...

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House - Site Thomas V. B. Hargis

Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman´s Headquarters

May 19-23, 1864

Sherman [US] occupied the Hargis house for three days of reorganization of forces in the campaign that ended at Atlanta.

Assuming the Johnston´s army [CS] had moved, from Adairsville, directly on Kingston & the river ...

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Berea Sandstone Quarries

For more than ninety years, this area was the heart and soul of Berea's sandstone quarries. In the early 1830s, John Baldwin discovered that the area's sandstone deposits made superb grindstones and building stones. in the 1840s, thriving sandstone quarries ...

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Independent Presbyterian Church

Founded 1915

The church was founded when the Rev. Henry M. Edmonds and many members of a Southern Presbyterian congregation withdrew from the local Presbytery. During the first seven years it met in Temple Emanu-El synagogue and held evening services in ...

Hirshfeldter Building

This fireproof stone structure was built by E. Hirshfeldter shortly after the Downieville fire of February 19, 1852. It is an excellent example of California Gold Rush architecture. From its inception, it was used as a hardware store utilizing a ...

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Dunham’s Bluff: Control of the Rivers

From the time Col. Francis Marion took control of the Williamsburg Militia in August 1780 until the following spring, a network of camps in the area where the Great Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, and Lynches Rivers meet formed a ...

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