Town of Whitsett

Situated on 1835 land grant of Mexico to John Houlihan. At this site in 1800's was water and a camp for cross-country drives of cattle, hogs. Town arose in 1913 when San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf railroad was built here ...

Battery K, First U.S. Artillery

Second Brigade - Horse Artillery - Cavalry Corps

Army of the Potomac

Cavalry Corps

Second Brigade Horse Artillery

Battery K First U.S. Artillery

Six 3 inch Rifles

Captain William M. Graham commanding

July 3 Arrived on the field and took position on the left with Cavalry and ...

Original Bell of Hulls Memorial Baptist Church

This bell

was taken from the

Old Church Building

and placed here by

Elsie S. Truslow

in memory of her husband

Hansford Bryan Truslow

1896 - 1959

Marker is on Enon Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Capture of the "Somers" and "Ohio"

On the night of August 12, 1814 seventy seamen and marines, led by Captain Alexander T. Dobbs, R.N.,embarked in this vicinity to attempt the capture of three armed U.S. schooners lying off American-held Fort Erie. One of the six boats ...

Fairforest Church

Led by Philip Mulkey, thirteen converts of the Great Awakening movement traveled from N.C. to S.C. in 1759, settled on the Broad River, and organized a Baptist congregation, the oldest in the upcountry. Three years later, they moved to what ...

The Defense of the Altamaha Bridge

On Dec 1, 1864, while General Sherman's army was on its destructive march to the Sea, the Fourth Brigade, Georgia Militia, Brig. Gen. H. K. McKay, reached Morgan's Lake (0.7 mile SE) to defend the Savannah and Gulf (ACL) RR ...

Jonesville Confederate Monument

[West Side]

C.S.A.

1861-1865

To the Confederate

dead of Union District

Comrades

Confederate Soldiers

[South Side]

From North to South

From East to West

Their ashes scattered lie

But in the regions of

the Blest,

Their spirits sing on high

[East Side]

The arms are stacked

The flags are furled

The sound of battle no

Longer calls but ...

Mission of St. Francois Xavier

On December 2, 1669, the Eve of St. Francis, Father Claude Allouez arrived at Oconto, then a village of about 600 Indians. Here Allouez founded the Mission of St. Francois Xavier, the first mission in north eastern Wisconsin. Six French ...

Flax Hill Monument

This rock

marks the site of a battle

between the

Americans and British

July 12, 1779.

This cannon ball

was found

on the battlefield

a hundred years

after by the

Daughters

of the American

Revolution

1896

Marker is at the intersection of Hillside Place and Elmwood Avenue, on the right when traveling west on ...

Fincastle County

Fincastle County, established in 1772, was formed from Botetourt County. The Fincastle County seat was located opposite the lead mines on the north side of the New River in the western end of present day Austinville. In 1775, the Fincastle ...