Lewis & Clark at Old Fort Jefferson

Long before Lewis and Clark stopped near Wickliffe in western Kentucky on their outbound trip to the west, Fort Jefferson had been built in 1780-81 by George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War as an outpost against British-led Indian attacks. ...

Jackson's Virginia Battery

Buckner's Division

C.S.A.

Brigadier General

Simon B. Buckner's Division

Jackson's Virginia BatteryThis battery of four pieces occupied this position on the night of February 13, 1862. On February 15, it proceeded with the division to the left of the intrenchments where it participated in ...

Henry L. Stevens, Jr.

1896–1971

Veterans leader. National Commander of American Legion, 1931–32; Superior Court judge, 1939–62. He lived 2 blocks north.

Marker is at the intersection of Pine Street (U.S. 117) and College Street on Pine Street.

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Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Fort Jefferson

(North Side):Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Fort Jefferson

Lewis and Clark and a party of eight men visited the site of Fort Jefferson on Nov. 18, 1803, while on their epic 1803-1806 journey to the Pacific. Fort est. in 1780 by ...

Jane Fishburne Hipp Plaza

Named in honor of a beloved member of the extended Furman University Family, generous benefactor, and wife of Herman N. Hipp, Class of 1935.

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James Washington Cockrum

[Side 'One']

Born 1799 in North Carolina. Purchased land 1818 in Gibson County. Cockrum and Jacob Warrick Hargrove laid out the town of Oakland (now Oakland City) on January 15, 1856. Cockrum and his son William Monroe Cockrum, along with sympathizers ...

Abolitionist John Brown Boards in Chambersburg

Preparing for the raid on Harpers Ferry arsenal, John Brown came to Chambersburg in the summer of 1859 wearing a beard as a disguise and using the alias of Isaac Smith. He took up residence at Mary Ritner’s boarding house ...

Jackson's Military Road

Side 1

After the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, General Andrew Jackson proposed this road as a shorter and improved route for military movements between Nashville and New Orleans. The U.S. War Department authorized Jackson to appoint an engineer and ...

Benjamin Franklin

Front of Monument:

Born in Boston, 17 January, 1706.

Died in Philadelphia, 17 April, 1790.

Right Side of Monument:

Treaty of Peace and Independence

3 September, 1783

Rear of Monument:

Eripuit Colo Tulmen Sceptrumque Tyrannis.

Left Side of Monument:

Declaration ...

Residence site of James Burt

Residence site of

James Burt

1761-1852

Lieutenant in Revolution

Assemblyman and Senator

1797-1826

Marker is on New York Route 17A 0.2 miles east of Forester Ave, on the left when traveling east.

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