Baxter Springs Massacre

On October 6, 1863, Gen. James Blunt and about 100 men were met near Baxter’s springs by William Quantrill and several hundred Confederates masquerading as Union troops. As Blunt’s band was preparing a musical salute the enemy fired. This surprise ...

Baxter Springs Massacre Burial Site

Civil War Tour

First burial site for victims of the Baxter Springs Massacre and the attack on Ft. Blair. In 1869, the bodies were moved to the National Cemetary plot west of town.

Marker is on 6th Street near Military Avenue (U.S. ...

Sacred Heart Church

1881-1945

In 1881, Nellie Cashman aided in building an adobe structure which served as a combination church and rectory; the first Pastor was Father Emmanuel P. Schneider. Another church was built in 1882 and Bishop John B. Salpointe dedicated it in ...

The Bradley Massacre

Near this spot, on May 14, 1856, a Seminole war party attacked the home of an early settler Capt. Robert Duke Bradley of the Florida Foot Volunteers. Two of the Bradley children were killed before the Indians withdrew. This was ...

9th Massachusetts Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):Erected by the

Ninth Regiment Infantry

Massachusetts Volunteers

2d Brigade, 1st Division

5th Army Corps.

Army of the Potomac.

During the battle of

Gettysburg the Ninth Regt.

was detached from

the 2nd Brigade and it held

this position on

Round Top

casualties 26 men.

(Right):The Ninth Regiment Mass. Vols

was composed ...

Great Sauk (Sac) Trail

(east-west through this point)

Part of a transcontinental trail

used by prehistoric peoples of

North America, it passed through

modern Detroit, Rock Island and

Davenport in the Midwest.

The trail was important

into the 19th century.

Marker is at the intersection of Van Buren Street and 73rd Avenue ...

Long Canes Massacre

Three miles west is the site of an attack by Cherokee Indians upon settlers of Long Canes in the Cherokee war of 1759-1761. There on February 1, 1760, about 150 settlers, refugeeing to Augusta, were overtaken by 100 Cherokee warriors. ...

Sacred to the Memory

Sacred To The Memory

Of All Those

Known And Unknown

Who Served Our Country

Erected 1976 by the Orange Bicentennial Commission

Marker is at the intersection of Orange Center Road and Schoolhouse Lane, on the right when traveling north on Orange Center Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Remembering Sacrifices - in Stone

"...around the spot where the monument was erected...to the best recollection 113 of our regiment were killed and wounded...it is hoped that the monument will remain standing as a memorial to the gallant and patriotic men of General Hazen's brigade ...

Sacred to the Memory Monument

Sacred to the Memory of

Major Willian Chronicle, Captain John Mattocks

William Rabb and John Boyd

Who Were killed at this place on the 7th.

of October 1780. Fighting in Defense of America.

Colonel Ferguson an office of his Britannic

Majesty, was defeated and killed at

this ...