Southeast Redoubt

This reconstructed small fort, guarding the southeastern approaches to Camden, was one of a ring of redoubts surrounding the fortified town. Typical of eighteenth century field fortifications, this redoubt used a combination of moat, earthen parapet, and palisade wall t ...

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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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 ...

Lucile Ellerbe Godbold

1922 Olympic Gold Medal winner Paris, France, while a student at Winthrop College. First woman in South Carolina Athletic Hall Of Fame. Outstanding educator at Columbia College. Daughter of William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold, Estill, South Carolina; formally of ...

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 ...

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1883 - 1961

A remarkable example of achievement in the face of segregation and discrimination, Charlotte Hawkins Brown was buried on the grounds of the school she led for fifty years.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown was born in Vance County, North Carolina, the granddaughter of ...

Battle of Fredericksburg

December 13, 1862 the Confederates under Lee defeated the Federals under Burnside in a sanguinary conflict marked by extraordinary bravery on both sides. In a series of gallant charges the Federal army sustained heavy losses and Burnside was forced to ...

Bicentennial Moon Tree

This seeding was grown from the very seeds that journeyed to the moon and back on board Apollo 14. It symbolizes the major role forests played in developing our American Heritage and the vital role forests have in our future.

This ...

Bethel Church

Union Command Meets

Lee vs. Grant - The 1864 Campaign

"At the church…the 9th Corps was marching past, and Burnside was sitting, like a comfortable abbot, in one of the pews, surrounded by his buckish staff whose appearance is the reverse of ...