Early Life in the Backcountry

Gouedy's Trading Post and Fort Ninety Six

Robert Gouedy established a trading post on this site in 1753. He supplied cloth, tools, gunpowder, lead, and rum to the soldiers, Indians, slaves, and settlers who passed through Ninety Six on the way ...

In Honor of Christopher Columbus

In Honor of Christopher Columbus

(Cristoforo Colombo 1451-1506)

Italian Visionary and Great Navigator

This bold explorer was the first European to set foot on uncharted land, on a West Indies beach in 1492. His four voyages brought Europe and the Americas together, forever ...

Battle of Brandywine

The battle ended just southwest of here at nightfall. With Howe and his troops holding the field, Washington’s force withdrew to Chester. Although he was wounded, Lafayette helped to reorganize the retreating troops, and Pulaski’s cavalry protected them from attack.

New Bloomfield World War I Memorial

1917 World War 1919

A deep sense of appreciation has inspired the erection of this tablet in honor of those who left New Bloomfield and Centre Township to promote world freedom and to preserve the safety and honor of their country

D. ...

Long Bridge

Crossing the Chickahominy

In a well-coordinated movement, Grant’s army crept away from the grim experience at Cold Harbor and marched rapidly for the Chickahominy River crossings.

A Union soldier writing home from Long Bridge on June 13, 1864, was not ...

Robert Francis Summers Memorial Clock

This clock donated by

Robert Francis (M) Summers II

on June 11, 2005

in memory of his father

Robert Francis (Miles) Summers

Born March 9, 1891

St. Ann's Hospital, NY, NY

In 1895 (est.), he rode an Orphan Train

secured by the NY Foundling Hospital

to Lexington, Mo. and ...

Battery F, Fourth U.S. Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Twelfth Corps

Army of the Potomac

Twelfth Corps

Artillery Brigade

Battery F Fourth U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. Sylvanus T. Rugg commanding

July 1 Approached Gettysburg on the Baltimore Pike to Two Taverns and took position to counteract any movements of the Confederates ...

Brady-Rees House

C. 1870

This house is the best representation of a Victorian Gothic style home in town. It is 5 bays wide with a beautifully etched transom light adorning the front entrance. Henry Brady owned the mule teams that pulled the barges ...

Old Sunbury Road

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The route crossing at this point is the Sunbury Road, one of the longest vehicular thoroughfares of post-Revolutionary Georgia. It was laid out in the early 1790´s from Greensboro via today´s Sparta and Swainsboro to the town of Sunbury, ...

Brown Grand Theatre

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on 6th Street near State Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org