The Stribling House Museum

Home of T.S. Stribling

Author

1933 Pulitzer Prize

Winner

1881 - 1965

Marker is at the intersection of East Water Street (Tennessee Route 128) and Cedar Street, on the right when traveling east on East Water Street.

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General Robert Hoke Monument

Near this spot, March 8, 1865, about 9 a.m., Hoke's Division, C.S.A. under the immediate command of Major-General Robert E. Hoke, broke the advanced columns of Cox's First Division, 23rd Corps, U.S.A. and captured principally from Upham's brigade 1500 prisoners ...

Looking Back

...about 100 years ago from this spot.

Though is is not done today, ice skating on the Brandywine River used to be quite popular. In this photo from about 1913, park visitors enjoy the ice with their dogs!

Photo

Skating on West Street ...

Blount Springs

Famous Health Resort

1843-1914

Here fashionable ladies and

gentlemen of the South

vacationed with

their families.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 31 and County Road 7, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 31.

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Battle of Hanover

June 30, 1863

between Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick's

3rd Cavalry Division Army of the Potomac

and

Major Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's Cavalry Division

Army of Northern Virginia

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (Pennsylvania Route 194) and Carlisle Street (Pennsylvania Route 94), on the right on ...

Ramirez – Preston Building

Early 1850’s

Ignacia Ramirez, female pioneer and native of Mexico, earliest known owner of this Gold Rush building. Upstairs meeting hall of St. James Masonic Lodge #54, acquired 1877 by R.A. Preston. Jamestown Post Office in 1930’s; later medical office of ...

First Presbyterian Church

This church originally stood at the corner of 10th and Market Streets and was the first Presbyterian church in the city. It was constructed in 1740, just after Wilmington received its charter from King George II. Following the Battle of ...

Battle of Hanover

On the morning of June 30, 1863, Confederate Cavalry under General Stuart attacked the rear of Union Cavalry S E of here and, for a while, had possession of the town. The attack repulsed, Stuart withdrew in the evening.

Marker ...

Lindsborg Post Office

Built in 1936

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Lincoln Street and 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east on Lincoln Street.

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Combs Hollow Historic District

National Register of Historic Places

Combs Hollow, site of the first industrial center of the area, settled by Levi and Eliphalet Lewis ca. 1735. The Lewis Family sold the mills to Moses Combs in 1807 but continued to own property here ...