Ford Cottage

Birthplace of the Telegraph

The Ford Cottage was built in the early 18th century by Gabriel Ford Jr., the grandson of Col. Jacob Ford Sr., Ironmaster, tavern owner and one of Morristown’s wealthiest citizens. Jacob Ford, Jr., was the builder of ...

The Battle of Spokane Plains

was fought near this spot on

September 5, 1858

in which U.S. troops under command of

Col. George Wright

defeated the allied — Coeur d'Alene

Palouse, and Spokane Indians

Marker is on South Dover Road near U.S. 2, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of Four Lakes

On this historic ground, Sept. 1, 1858, 700 soldiers under Col Geo. Wright, U.S.A. routed 5,000 allied indians.

Four days later, the rallied hostiles were decisively defeated in a running battle. They sued for mercy, and have ever since maintained lasting ...

The Factory

Birthplace of the Telegraph

Early on a cold day in January 1838, a crowd gathered at Speedwell. Just days before, Alfred Vail and Professor Samuel F.B. Morse moved the equipment for their invention, the electromagnetic telegraph, from a workshop across the ...

Village Academy / Furman Academy and Theological Institute

Village Academy

Organized in 1811, the Edgefield Village Academy was located for many years on this site acquired from Col. Eldred Simkins in 1825. The South Carolina Coeducational Institute was located here from 1903-1913. During Reconstruction, many exciting political meetings were ...

Guns of Fort Brady

Union photographers Andrew J. Russell and T.C. Roche arrived south of Richmond in 1865 and recorded some of the most important images of Fort Brady. This view was taken from the parapet behind you and depicts the fort's fighting battery. ...

Old Federal Road

This highway from Tate to Talking Rock follows substantially the course of the Old Federal Road, the earliest thoroughfare to link Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation. Permission to use the way was granted informally by the Indians in ...

President Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Train

On this spot where the Wanatah Station of the Monon Railroad once stood, the Lincoln funeral train made a brief stop on the morning of May 1, 1865 at approximately 7:40 a.m. The funeral train traveled 1,700 miles of its ...

The Confederate States Powder Works

"...the best powder mill in the world..."

When the conflict began in April 1861,

leaders on both sides were unprepared

to wage a long war. The Confederacy's

industrial capacity was especially lacking,

and munitions of all types were scarce.

Initial stores of gunpowder were

inadequate, and ...

Fountain Park Chautauqua

Fountain Park has been the site of annual Chautauqua sessions since 1895. The Chautauqua continues to promote traditional values and religious, social and educaitonal activities upon which it was founded.

Marker can be reached from West 1600 South near South 680 ...