Battle of Harpers Ferry / Jackson Arrives

(Upper Panel): Battle of Harpers Ferry

Invasion rocked the United States during the second year of the American Civil War. In September 1862 Confederate General Robert E. Lee launched his army into Maryland - the North. Lee's first target became ...

The DeForest Building

Erected - 1889

After construction in 1889, the DeForest Building, named for its owner Henry L. DeForest, became one of Sanford's original structures in the late nineteenth century commercial district. This was Mr. DeForest's second downtown building. The city directory lists ...

The N.P. Yowell and the Garner-Woodruff Buildings

Erected - 1910

the N.P. Yowell Building was built in 1910 for a prominent Orlando merchant of the same name. It was designed by Jacksonville architect W.B. Talley, and built by George Venable. When opened, it was a dry goods store. ...

City Building

The Old City Building and Market, also known as the Municipal Building or Marketplace, was designed by local architect Charles A. Cregar. It was completed in 1890 at a cost of $250,000. Vendors, who sold meats, fish, provisions, vegetables, and ...

The Hill Hardware Building

Erected - 1917

This building was erected in 1917 by the Directors of the Seminole County Bank shortly after the adjacent bank building facing First Street was completed. It was constructed of brick and stucco and intended to provide room for ...

Bird Effigy Mound

500-1000 A.D.

This mound was constructed by people of a hunting and gathering culture who met periodically at ceremonial grounds like this one to bury their dead.

Marker can be reached from Burrows Road 0.1 miles west of Sherman Avenue, on the ...

Columbia Marble Quarry

(On Marble Quarry Road

one mile from this site)

Deposit discovered in

1854 by John Grant.

Produced the marble used

in Pacific Coast buildings.

Still producing.

Marker is at the intersection of Parrots Ferry Road (County Route E18) and Marble Quarry Road, on the right when traveling ...

East Germantown Civil War Band

Band organized in East Germantown; members enlisted in 1862. Assigned to the Twelfth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. Fought with General Ulysses S. Grant. Marched with General William T. Sherman from Atlanta to the sea.

Erected in memory of D.W. Kocher

Claverie Building

Shortly after the fire of August, 1857, this one-story brick structure was built by three Frenchmen; L. Claverie, Charles Meysan, and Victor Pinchard. After their partnership dissolved in 1861, Meysan owned the building until 1869. He sold it to Sun ...

Robertson's Brigade

Hood's Division - Longstreet's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps Hood's Division

Robertson's Brigade

1st. 4th. 5th. Texas and 3d.

Arkansas Infantry

July 2 Arrived on the field about 4 p.m. Advanced against the Union positions. The 4th and ...