Lutheran Church of the Norwegian Synod

On this site once stood a Lutheran Church of the Norwegian Synod, from the years 1887 to 1921. This church developed because of a disagreement on some doctrinal points with the United Lutheran Church which stood one half mile south ...

6th Kentucky Infantry

Hazen's Brigade - Nelson's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio

6th Kentucky Infantry,

Hazen's (19th) Brigade,

Nelson's (4th) Division.

This regiment was engaged here about 10 a.m. April 7, 1862. It advanced to the wheat field where a battery was captured but soon after abandoned. The ...

Fort LaMotte

About 1812 the settlers in this area built Fort LaMotte for protection from hostile indians.

The pioneers farmed the adjoining land but stayed within easy reach of the protective walls.

After the War of 1812 the Indian threat diminished and the inhabitants ...

Battle of the Spurs

Just before Christmas, 1858, John Brown "liberated" eleven slaves in Missouri. He hid them in a covered wagon and circled north on the underground railway toward Nebraska and freedom. En route a Negro baby was born. Late in January they ...

Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices

This portion of the Tinsley Building, a merchant block constructed in 1840-1841, is the only surviving structure in which Abraham Lincoln maintained a law office. Intended originally for commercial use, much of the building was rented for other purposes. A ...

5th Kentucky Infantry

Rousseau's Brigade - McCook's Division

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

5th Kentucky Infantry,

Rousseau's (4th) Brigade,

Crittenden's (5th) Division.

This Regiment was engaged here, in reserve line, from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. April 7, 1862. It then advanced to Woolf Field.

Marker is on Corinth-Pittsburg Landing ...

A “Picture of Desolation”

“ Tis a perfect picture of desolation, and a sad illustration of the ravages of war.”

—Newspaper correspondent, 1863

Union soldiers loll around Chatham in this February 1863 photograph. The scene here was not always so peaceful. Two months earlier, during ...

13th Iowa Infantry

Hare's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

13th Iowa Infantry,

Hare's (1st) Brigade,

McClernand's (1st) Division.

This regiment was engaged here at about 2 P.M. April 7, 1862.

Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road 0.1 miles west of Eastern Corinth Road, on the left when ...

Franklinville

Manufacturing village started in 1827 on site of Isaiah Linton;s 1772 Jericho Lower Gristmill by Dean Walker and members of Shaw and Tiffany families. Town acquired in 1838 by James Mahool. The first cotton mill burned in 1881. Second cotton ...

Oak Tree Planted in Honor of

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Minister of the Gospel, Author, Nobel Laureate, Civil Rights Leader, and Drum Major for Justice.

Dedicated by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Gov. James S. Gilmore, III, and the Citizens of Virginia on November 14, 2001

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