Opening of the Wilderness Campaign

Near here the Second Corps of Grant's Army camped in the winter of 1863-64. To this point came Sheridan's cavalry, the Sixth Corps from Brandy Station, and the Fifth Corps from Culpeper. The Union Army moved hence to Germanna and ...

Site of Ferry Landing

From this place in the year 1830

Abraham Lincoln crossed the

Wabash River to Illinois

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Vigo Street (East Side of Bridge) and Wabash River.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Battle of Payne’s Farm

The Confederate Wheel

“Several efforts were made to charge the hostile line, but as these attempts were made by single brigades, without proper deliberation and without co-operation on the part of the other forces to the right and left, they naturally ...

Pond Bluff to St Stephens

After the American Revolution, General Marion’s militiamen re-built his home. Francis Marion, at age 53, married Mary Esther Videau, April 20, 1786. They lived at Pond Bluff, on the south edge of the Santee Swamp and raised pineland cattle. With ...

Site of Burnam's Ferry

(obverse)

First ferry in present-day Fayette County. Established about 1824 at the crossing of the La Bahia Road by Jesse Burnam. After the Army of the Republic of Texas crossed on March 19, 1836, the ferry was destroyed by order of ...

Fort Knox, First Site

Built in 1787 by Major John F. Hamtramck under command of General Josiah Harmar. United States Army's most western outpost for several years. Named for General Henry Knox, first Secretary of War.

Marker is at the intersection of North 1st Street ...

General Marquis de Lafayette 1757 - 1834

Member Society of the Cincinnati of France. Presented jointly by the State Society of the Cincinnati and the City of York, Pennsylvania, this day January 27th 2007.

"Serving America is to my heart an inexpressible happiness"

General Marquis de Lafayette

Marker is at ...

Yellow Bluff Fort

Dedicated to the memory of the Confederate soldiers who defended Jacksonville, 1861-1865.

A Confederate earthworks designed and located by General Robert E. Lee as one of a series of forts for the defense of the Saint Johns River. This fort was ...

The Boone Family in Davie County

On 04 October 1750, Squire Boone received a Land Warrant and Survey for a 640-acre tract "lying...upon Grant's Creek, alias Lickon (Licking) Creek" in present Davie County. He received a grant for this 640 acres on the present Elisha and ...

The Four Chaplains

On February 3, 1943, The Four Chaplains aboard the troop carrier USS Dorchester gave their life jackets to others aboard the torpedoed ship. As the ship sank into the cold waters of the North Atlantic, the four men of God ...