Soldier of The American Revolution

Philip Allen was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts on July 9, 1757. At the outbreak of the revolution, 18-year-old Allen enlisted as his brother’s substitute in Captain Packard’s company of Colonel David Brewster’s regiment. Allen served in at least five Massachusetts ...

Chief Paduke

Chief of sub~tribe of Chickasaw Indians, who lived and hunted in this area until Jackson Purchase, 1818. Land here then owned by Gen. William Clark, who founded Paducah; named it in honor of friendly chief. Statue sculptured by Lorado Taft, ...

Battle of Musgrove Mill

Site of

Battle of Musgrove Mill

American Revolution

August 18, 1780

Marker is on State Highway 56 ½ mile north of State Park Road, on the left when traveling north.

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In Memory of Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown

In Memory of

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Founder

Educator

Humanitarian

July 1976

Marker can be reached from US Highway 70.

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Here was Madison’s first African-American neighborhood

The Madison Heritage Series

John Hill first set eyes on Madison while visiting a relative who was attending the University of Wisconsin. He moved his family here from Atlanta in 1910 to join a modest community of about 140 African Americans.

In ...

Washington Light Infantry Monument

This Monument was erected by

The Washington Light Infantry

Of Charleston S.C.

L.M. Hatch. Capt

April. 1856

Cowpens Chapter D.A.R.

1936

Marker can be reached from Chesnee Highway (U.S. 11).

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Church of the Blind Preacher

Near here was the church of James Waddel, the blind Presbyterian preacher. Waddel, who had been a minister in the Northern Neck and elsewhere, came here about 1785 and died here in 1805. William Wirt, stopping in 1803 to hear ...

First Airfield

E. L. Hampton's pasture became “Hampton Field” when transient airplanes began landing here during the first World War. About 2,000 feet long from here west, bounded north and south by Golf Club Lane and Woodmont Boulevard, it continued in use ...

Campaign of Second Manassas

Near here Stonewall Jackson camped, August 13-15, 1862, just after the Cedar Mountain engagement.

Marker is on James Madison Highway (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling south.

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Chief Justice John Edward Hickman

(1883 - 1962)

A distinguished chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and a native of Williamson County.

Descendant of 1849 settlers from Alabama, he was a son of Nathaniel Franklin and Mary J. Porterfield Hickman. He attended the Liberty Hill Normal ...