Forks of the Old Federal Road

The Old Federal Road, leading across the Indian Country from the Cherokee boundary, in the direction of Athens, branched at this point toward Knoxville and Nashville. The right turn led northward into Tennessee via Chatsworth and Tennga, while the left ...

Freeman Field

Activated December 1942 as U.S. Army Air Forces advanced training school for World War II twin engined pilots; graduated over 4000 by February

1945. Construction of 413 structures and four 5,500-foot runways supervised by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; named for ...

Freeman Field

Activated December 1942 as U.S. Army Air Forces advanced training school for World War II twin engined pilots; graduated over 4000 by February

1945. Construction of 413 structures and four 5,500-foot runways supervised by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; named ...

Site of the Second Fort Crawford

1829 – 1856

The first Fort Crawford was built in 1816, and stood on the site now occupied by the "Villa Louis." After a decade of Mississippi River flooding, the U. S. Army relocated Fort Crawford to this site, constructing the ...

Organization of Fayette County

Fayette County was organized the first Monday in December, 1824, in the home of Robert G. Thornton, ten miles S. East on North fork of Wolf River. It was made a part of the district which David Crockett then represented ...

Atomic Bomb Accident at Mars Bluff, March 11, 1958

[Marker Front]

In 1958, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped an atomic bomb near here.

The unarmed 7,600-lb., 10'8"-long bomb was aboard a B-47E bomber on a training mission headed for England. Its high-explosive trigger ...

Burial Sites of Immortal 600

The Immortal 600 were a group of Confederate officers held prisoners of war at Fort Pulaski during the bitterly cold winter of 1864-1865. They were moved here from Charleston where they had been placed in the line of artillery fire ...

Battlefield Site Map

Other local historic sites of interest

1. General Warren Inn

(Formerly the Warren Tavern)

2. Waynesborough

Restored home of General Wayne

3. Valley Forge National Historical Park

4. St. Peter’s in the Great Valley

Episcopal Church

5. Great Valley ...

To the Dead and Living Confederate Soldiers

To the Memory of those valiant souls who went forth from Old Marion to yield up their lives in Patriotic Devotion to The South and all that the South stood for.

While many of the rest in unknown graves this monument ...

The Land on Which the Battle of Paoli was Fought

The land on which the Battle of Paoli was fought has been farmland and woodland since the mid-18th century. Ezekiel Bowen, a farmer of Welsh descent, purchased this land in 1764. County records note that he sold it to Richard ...