Village of Bryantown

Commercial Center

This building in the Bryantown Tavern, constructed about 1815. On April 15, 1865, the morning after President Lincoln’s assassination, Lt. David D. Dana made it his headquarters while pursuing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, with a detachment of the ...

Salmon Festival

Long before fur hunters explored here in 1811, an annual Indian salmon festival was held each July in this area.

Indian peoples came great distances to trade, celebrate, and arrange intertribal marriages. Cheyenne and Arapaho bands brought elegant tipi poles ...

Moat Feeder Canal

In wartime the moat was filled with water

from the South Channel of the Savannah

River. This feeder canal featured stop-lock

gates which provided water control and

access to small barges bringing supplies to

the fort. When filled from this ditch, the

moat formed an ...

Sandfield Baptist Church / Sandfield Cemetery

Sandfield Baptist Church

Twenty-Five Mile Creek Church, a Primitive Baptist congregation, was organized in this area before 1772. It was renamed Sandfield Church by ca. 1830 and the mother church for Cedar Creek, Harmony, Jackson Creek, and Sawney’s Creek. After ...

Baptism of Fire

VMI Cadet Casualties in the Battle of New Market

While the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute comprised one of the smallest Confederate units engaged in the Battle of New Market, they paid a disproportionately high price in their baptism of ...

Site of the Bank of Lucas, Turner & Co.

(Sherman's Bank)

William Tecumseh Sherman established the branch bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. in San Francisco in 1853. He settled the firm in their own building on the northeast corner of Jackson and Montgomery Streets in the spring of ...

Cisterns of the Construction Village

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Robert E. Lee, newly graduated from the

United States Military Academy at West

Point, joined Major Samuel Babcock of the

Army Corps of Engineers in 1829 to begin

work on building a construction village on

this site. Two years later Lee ...

Florida's Earliest Courthouse Building

Manatee County's first Courthouse was built in 1859-1860, and is the oldest remaining building constructed as a county courthouse in the State of Florida. It was built on the original Courthouse Square at 15th Street East and Fourth Avenue, two ...

Fort Bull

250 Paces from

here is the site of

Fort Bull

the scene of fierce

struggles during the

early Indian Wars-

twenty years

before the revolution

Marker is on Rome-New London Road (New York Route 49) ½ mile south of Rome-Taberg Road (New York Route 69), on the right ...

The Wars of America

Unveiled and dedicated May 31, 1926. On these historic acres of the “Old Training Place” that lowed by the living memories of personages and events through three centuries of peace and war. The citizens of Newark in 1826 placed the ...