Guignard Park

Gift to the City of Cayce on March 13, 1961, by the heirs of John G. Guignard to be maintained as a public park in a state of natural beauty. This park established to conserve wild flowers, native shrubs and ...

The Post at the Congarees

In 1175 the building upon the ground adjacent hereto was used as a store.

Upon the fall of Charles Town in 1780 the British seized the store, fortified it, and established here "The Post at the Congarees."

Attacked Feb. 19, 1781, by ...

History of The Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home

The Walter P. Chrysler Home was built in 1889 by Walter's father Henry, his brother Ed, and Walter himself. Walter lived in the home from 1889 to 1897. During this period, the Kansas Pacific Railway employed Walter as an engine ...

Redfern Field / Paul R. Redfern

Front

This is the site of Redfern Field, established in 1923 as the first commercial airfield in Columbia. Paul Rinaldo Redfern (1902 ~ 1927?) had shown an early interest in and aptitude for aviation, building his first full-scale airplane in 1916, ...

Blacksmith Shops

In 1898 John Corbett opened a blacksmith shop here. It was later purchased by Charles Archer. Two other shops were located nearby.

Marker is at the intersection of Talbert Avenue and Bushard Street, on the right on Talbert Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Original Circus Site / First Post Office / Country Stores

Original Circus Site

The Escalante Circus placed its tent here for its annual performance. The circus parade started here, moved east to Ward, north to Warner, west to Wintersberg (now in Huntington Beach) and returned.

First Post Office

In 1899 a Post Office ...

Fred E. McAniff and John R. Parker

In memory

of

Fred E. McAniff

1941 – 1961

and

John R. Parker

1941 – 1962

Beloved members

of the

Class of 1965

[ Second Marker : ]

The future never known

the past never forgotten

when we remember

Fred ...

Occupied Chattanooga

The Waterfront

Chattanooga's Tennessee River waterfront underwent major changes during the Civil War. The Confederate troops who occupied the town in the spring of 1862 constructed forts and batteries near the river. When Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans army shelled Chattanooga ...

Boynton Park

Henry Van Ness Boynton

Boynton Park

Henry Van Ness Boynton

Born West Stockbridge, Mass.

July 22, 1835

Reared in Cincinnati, Ohio. Graduated

Woodward College, KY. Military Institute

Lieut. Col. 35th Ohio Infantry. Wounded

Battle Missionary Ridge.Brevt. Brigader-

General - Congressional Medal for Gallantry

Founder of Chickamauga Chattanooga National

Military Park - ...

Confederates Occupy The Fort

At the beginnings of the Civil War, “amid the firing of cannon and the cheers of the people,” a local newspaper reported, Arkansas State Militia raised the Confederate flag and took control of Fort Smith on April 23, 1861.

With the ...