Town of Edgefield Parking Lot

Formerly Southern Railroad Depot Site

The parking lot adjacent to this building is the site where the Southern Railroad Depot was located for many years. When the railroad arrived in Edgefield in 1888, the depot was located a quarter mile south ...

Fisher's Hill Battlefield

Veteran's Picnic Grounds

Soon after the end of the Civil War, veterans on both sides began holding reunions to walk the familiar battlegrounds and renew friendships with former comrades. Here at Fisher's Hill, veterans of the battle fought on September 22, ...

Battle of Nashville

Federal Defenses

The hill to the west was a strong point in the system of permanent Federal defenses, started in 1862, which extended to the river on both sides of the town. Artillery was emplaced here from time to time.

Marker can ...

20th A.C.; Pace's Fy. Rd.

July 18, 1864. Hooker’s Federal 20th Corps, occupied this sector between Howard’s 4th at Buckhead, on the left, & Palmer’s 14th, on the right, at Howell Mill Road.

Williams’ & Geary’s divs. of the 20th, camped in this vicinity that night, ...

Deaf School Park

This ten acre site was purchased in 1829 for the Ohio School for the Education of the Deaf. The first school building opened here in 1834; the school was enlarged in 1845. In 1868 the original school was replaced. Another ...

Battle of Fisher's Hill

Here Early's Adjutant-General, A.S. Pendleton, while attempting to check Sheridan's advance, was mortally wounded, September 22, 1864.

Marker is at the intersection of Old Valley Pike (U.S. 11) and Millner Road (County Route 644), on the right when traveling north ...

Major Wilbur Fisk Foster

1834-1922 Chief Engr. Army of Tenn. C.S.A.; Construction Engineer on first R.R. Bridge in Nashville; City Engineer of Nashville and Member of American Society of civil Engineers; Director of Works at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897 & Co-Founder of Foster ...

Knights Ferry - The Store

Founded in 1852. This grocery store has been in continuous operation sever since. Making it the oldest store of its kind in the state of California. It has survived several disastrous floods that struck this community. The old pot bellied ...

"Men who don't often weep wept then"

Prelude to Gettysburg

(Front):

Faced with the impossible task of defending an essentially unarmed city against the six thousand battle hardened troops of General Jubal Early, the citizens of York met with the Confederates and negotiated surrender, in and act which was ...

To our Valiant Fathers

To our Heroic Mothers

To our Valiant Fathers:

- Champions of Reconciliation with Justice,of Union Manhood,of Peace with Honor;they fought with Faithfulness,and suffered in silence.

To our Heroic Mothers:-

spartan in Devotion,Teuton in Sacrifice,in Patience Superior to eityer,and in Modesty and Grace Matchless ...