Lumberton Bicentennial Park

1787–1987. On August 14, 1787, John Willis deeded to the Lumberton Lottery Managers 170 acres of land, “being the well known as Red Bluff where the courts are held,” to be sold in lots for the creation of the Town ...

Battle of Rowlesburg: "The River Road"

You are standing less than a mile from an important battle site in the Civil War. Just ahead a handful of determined Union troops and townspeople would thwart the Confederate Raiders.

Though small in scale compared to Gettysburg and Antietam, ...

Black Mingo Creek:

Fighting Among Neighbors

In September 1780, Francis Marion returned to South Carolina after a short tactical retreat into the swamps of eastern North Carolina. Hearing that British and Loyalist forces were burning the homes of Whig militiamen in Williamsburg District, Col. ...

Gettysburg Campaign

The Union Army 11th Corps, crossing from the Emmitsburg Road, July 1, 1863, turned north here toward Gettysburg. The Union 2nd Corps camped here on the same night.

Marker is at the intersection of Barlow Greenmount Road (County Road 1002) ...

Kingsport Public Library

The Kingsport Book Club established the Kingsport Public Library in 1929. It was originally housed in the YMCA building and then moved to this site, which was the former U.S. Post Office site on Broad Street. Thomas Hastings of New ...

B&O Viaducts

To S on B&O Railroad is Buckeye Run Viaduct, 136' high, 350' long & 28' wide. Tray Run Viaduct, .6 mi. NW is 148' high, 445' long and 28' wide. Noted engineers Benjamin Latrobe & Albert Fink designed the viaducts. ...

Footbridge

Not far from the Guardlock, the canal passed under a wooden bridge. Cut stone abutments on each bank supported the simple wooden truss structure. This was the first of four bridges that crossed the canal on it two mile path ...

Hobby's 8th Texas Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.

Refugio County was represented in all four companies of Hobby's Infantry Battalion organized in this county, May 1862. Unit successfully withstood Union bombardment of Corpus Christi, August 1862. Organized into 8th Texas Infantry, February 1863. Regiment staved off another attack ...

Colonel A. M. Hobby

1831-1881

Home county of Texas Confederate

Colonel A.M. Hobby

1831 - 1881Georgian. Ardent supporter of states rights and secession. Served Texas Legislature 1859 until resignation in 1862 to organize battalion for war. Commanded Hobby's 8th Texas Infantry Regiment. In charge of area coastal ...

First Bloom

Lady Bird Johnson Park

”To me beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.”

- Lady Bird Johnson

When kids connect with national parks, the result is conservation. Through the First ...