Hot and Hot Fish Club

Established by and comprised of the planters of All Saints Parish, this social club was dedicated to epicurean pursuits. Although formed before 1816, the organization was probably dissolved during the civil War. Nearby Drunken Jack Island was the first recorded ...

Millstones Long in the Service of Pioneers

[Plaque One:]

These Millstones long in the Service

of our Pioneers dedicated to their memory

by the Edgar County Historical Society

1817 - 1927

[Plaque Two:]

From the Lewis Jones Farm near Nevins

presented to

Edgar County by his son

William Shields Jones, M.D.

of Redmon

1861 - 1949

Marker is on ...

Welcome to Belle Fourche

The Geo Center of the U.S.

In 1959 following the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to the Union, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic survey officially designated a point 20 miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota as the Geographic Center of ...

Rafting on the Mississippi

After 1837 the vast timber resources of northern Wisconsin were eagerly sought by settlers moving into the mid-Mississippi valley. By 1847 there were more than thirty saw-mills on the Wisconsin, Chippewa, and St. Croix river systems, cutting largely Wisconsin white ...

Petersburg State Colony for the Negro Insane

Petersburg, Virginia

In 1938 the Virginia Assembly chartered a residential care facility for mentally retarded African-American males between 8 and 21 years of age. The Petersburg State Colony for the Negro Insane, as it was named, was located on the present ...

Battle of King's Tanyard

On July 31, 1864, at the Battle of Sunshine Church (19 miles NE of Macon), Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman [US] surrendered with 600 men to Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, Jr., [CS], after covering the escape of Adams’ and Capron’s brigades ...

Fort Blanchard

Confederate earth fort mounting four guns. Smallest on Roanoke Island. Surrendered on Feb. 8, 1862. Earthworks are 300 yds. S.

Marker can be reached from U.S. 64/264.

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10th Maine Volunteer Infantry

(Front):To the memory of

Twenty-two officers and soldiers of the

10th Maine Volunteer Infantry

killed at Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9th, 1862.

(Back):

Capt. Andrew C. Cloudman Co. E.

1st Lieut. James C. Folsom, Co. H.

Sergt. George H. Huro, Co. C.

Sergt. Charles W. Marston, Co. ...

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Morgan County

United States of America

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio

Morgan County

Civil War

Private Musician John T. Patterson

Winchester, VA 1863

Private Elbridge Robinson

Winchester, VA 1863

Private Jasper N. North

Vicksburg, MS 1863

Sergeant Cavalry M. Young

Osage, KS 1865

(Also Washington Co.)

Corporal Freeman C. ...

Second Massachusetts Infantry

The

Second

Massachusetts

Infantry

Have raised this stone in memory

of their dead who fell in the

Battle of Cedar Mountain

Aug - 9 - 1862

Marker is on U.S. Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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