Fort Dickerson

This Federal work was a major factor in the defense of Knoxville against Lt. Gen. Longstreet's assault in November, 1863. The fort and neighboring hills were manned by the 2nd Brigade(Cameron), 3rd Div., XXIII Corps, which repulsed by fire Wheeler's ...

Flora

The Garden Spot of Indiana

Flora’s Station, on the Logansport, Crawfordsville and Southwestern Ry., was platted in 1872 for John Flora on land entered by him in 1829. Ino Post Office established 1872, changed to Flora in 1873. Also called Fountain ...

Chief Cornstalk’s Village

Chief Peter Cornstalk's village of Snakefish (Eel River) tribe of Miami Indians was located three miles from here along Cornstalk Creek. Wigwams and Indian furial ground were near the little Harshbarger family cemetery. The Indians lived at peace with settlers ...

Thomas Wolfe House / Dixieland

Old Kentucky Home

Dixieland

Asheville native Thomas Wolfe achieved international fame with the publication of his first full-length novel, Look Homeward, Angel, in 1929. Many of the incidents in the book took place in his mother's boardinghouse, "Old Kentucky Home," which he ...

Jeffers Mound

Archaeologists believe that this prehistoric mound, part of a complex of earthworks, was used for rituals by the Hopewell people and was probably built between 100 BC and 400 AD. Note the painted post tops marking the Hopewell pole house ...

Site of the Home of Josiah Hughes Bell

1791 - 1838

One of the “Old Three Hundred” who came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin in 1821 • First alcade of Austin's Colony • On this tract of 6,642 acres, granted him in 1824, was later built the ...

Philips Smith Farm

Philips Smith Farm

288 acres, first rented in 1775,

then purchased in 1816 through

forfeiture land sales for his service in the Revolutionary War;

sold by Arthur Smith in 1918.

Allan Warnecke, Historian Town of Carmel 2002

Marker is on Carmel-Kent Cliffs ½ ...

County of El Dorado Courthouse Restoration

Board of Supervisors

John M. Caswell – District 1, William V.D. Johnson – District 2, Thomas M. Goodloe, Jr. – District 3, Raymond E. Lawyer, Chairman – District 4, Gerald E. Martin – District 5.

Robert Mason, Architect

Buettner-Carter, Denton & Assoc., General ...

Fort Johnson

In the hours following the September 29, 1864, Federal triumph at Fort Harrison, 1,000 yards south of here, Confederate defenses stiffened. Two hundred Georgia infantrymen and Virginia artillerists filled Fort Johnson. Later in the morning they repulsed a direct attack ...

Building Fort Burnham

After capturing Fort Harrison on September 29, men of the 18th Corps concentrated on enlarging the break they had created in the Confederate defenses. Corps commander General E.O.C. Ord fell wounded as some units pushed south toward Fort Hoke. Others ...