Battle Monument

In memory

of the

Officers and Men

of the

Regular Army of the United States

who fell in battle during the

War of the Rebellion.

This monument is erected by their

surviving comrades.

Marker is on Washington Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

City of Columbus

This city of Columbus was created as a trading town by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia, December 24, 1827. The location designated was on the Chattahoochee River near the Coweta Falls. This spot was selected because it ...

Oak Grove Cemetery and Arboretum

In 1850, this eighty acre tract known as the Kilbourne farm was purchased for use as a cemetery. The “Old Burial Grounds,” located where Ohio Wesleyan's Selby Stadium now stands, had deteriorated and most of those remains were removed to ...

Hichborn House

1091 Fremont Street

American Colonial style adapted to California. Built in 1868 by Cary Peebles; purchased in 1882 by F. Greenleaf Houlton of Houlton, Maine, father of Mrs. Franklin Hichborn. Franklin Hichborn was a journalist and political writer of national fame ...

The Battle of Hanging Rock

A Union Retreat Disrupted

On June 21, 1864, following two days of fighting at Lynchburg, Confederate Gen. Robert Ransom’s cavalry, pursuing Union Gen. David Hunter’s retreating column, engaged in a conflict that would ultimately become known as the Battle of Hanging ...

Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi and International Expositi

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody held the first official performance of his Wild West show just half a mile northeast of here on May 19, 1883. Eight thousand people attended the premiere at the Omaha Driving Park near Eighteenth and ...

Joseph Buffet

Killed near this spot

in 1781 trying to regain

his cattle & sheep from a

British raiding party re-

turning to Huntington.

Marker is on Fort Salonga Road (New York Route 25A), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Van Metre Ford Bridge

Named for the property owners this stone bridge built in 1832 across Opequon Creek was major improvement for travellers on Warm Springs Road connecting Alexandria and Bath, Va., site of famous mineral waters. The Berkeley County Court established a commission ...

Rose of Aberlone

Michigan Legal Milestone

T.C. Sherwood, president of Plymouth National Bank, contracted in 1886 with Hiram Walker of Walkerville, Ontario for the purchase of a cow, Rose 2d of Aberlone. Both parties believed that Rose was barren and would not breed, ...

Bettis Academy

19th Century Education for African Americans

Bettis Academy and Junior College, a private school for African Americans, was founded in 1881 by Rev. Alexander Bettis, a former slave who was taught to read by his owner's wife, but was never taught ...