Opening of the Gettysburg Campaign

On this plain Lee reviewed his cavalry, June 8, 1863. The next day the cavalry battle of Brandy Station was fought. On June 10, Ewell's Corps, from its camp near here, began the march to Pennsylvania.

Marker is on Brandy Road ...

Power-Jackson Cabin

c. 1830

This cabin is one of the rare examples of a single-pen (one room) log house remaining in Cobb County. Although a framed addition was added later, the original hand-hewn, squared-and-notched log construction is still visible. William Power originally acquired ...

Brothers In Service

Zebulon and Robert Vance Brithplace

Here were born two notable Buncombe County brothers, Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894) and Robert Brank Vance (1828-1899).

Zebulon Vance was a Whig and supporter of the Union who opposed secession until the last moment. At the outbreak ...

Howell Cobb Plantation

Site of the large Baldwin County plantation of Howell Cobb, one of the 'Great Georgia Triumvirate' of Stephens, Toombs and Cobb, and his wife, the former

Mary Ann Lamar. Born at Cherry Hill in Jefferson County, Georgia Sept. 7, 1815, he ...

Bear Den Road Bridge

The Bear Den Road Bridge was an example of a Pratt bridge construction, which was a design used in Wisconsin from 1895-1910. The Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Company fabricated the bridge, and it was moved to this site in 1940. ...

Cobb's Quarter, Sherman's Campsite

Marching toward Milledgeville via Covington, Shady Dale and Eatonton Factory, the Union Army's 14th Corps reached this crossroad on the night of November 22, 1864. General Sherman camped at the Howell Cobb place, a few yards north of this point. ...

Site of Old Burial Ground

The Gift of John Potts - Founder of Pottstown

to

Early German Settlers of the

Lutheran and Reformed Faith

A.D. 1752

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On the adjoining bronze tablets are inscribed the names and dates of persons whose graves were located in the Reformed portion of the graveyard.

This ...

Beale Road

In 1857 Congress authorized Navy Lieutenant Edward F. Beale to survey a wagon road along the 35th parallel from Fort Defiance, New Mexico Territory, to the Colorado River. A secondary mission was to test the feasibility of using camels in ...

Battle of Brandy Station

Greatest cavalry battle of the Civil War

• Fought June 9, 1863 •

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart defeated Gen. A. Pleasonton

Confederates engaged 10,200. Federals 10,900

Casualties, Confederates, 485, Federals 866

This is Fleetwood Hill

The crucial position

Finally occupied by the Confederates

Marker is on Fleetwood Heights Road ...

Shell Bluff

Shell Bluff on the Savannah River 15 miles northeast has been famous since Indian days because of its outcrops of fossil shells including those of giant

oysters. These lived in the Eocene sea that covered this part of Georgia some 50 ...