Major Joseph E. Gillette

The "Southampton Cavalry" was formed just north of this site in May, 1861 at what was the Gillette Farm, Cedar Lawn. Joseph E. Gillette was elected captain. The Company eventually became Company A of the 13th Virginia Cavalry. Gillette was ...

LT John Philip Sousa Bandstand

This replica of the 1910 bandstand

upon which LT John Philip Sousa, USN

directed the Naval Training Center Band

was built from original plans in observance

of the Naval Training Center's

75th Anniversary.

Dedicated by NTC Commander

RADM Roberta Hazard, USN

July 2, 1985

Marker is on Decatur Avenue, ...

Blackwater Line - Joyner's Ford

Confederate forces guarded this Blackwater River crossing from 1862 to the end of the Civil War. On 12 Dec. 1862, Capt. J. H. Sikes and soldiers of Company D, 7th Confederate Cavalry, were captured during a dismounted skirmish with elements ...

General Elijah Clark

General Elijah Clark, "Hero of the Hornets Nest," and members of his family are buried in the enclosed cemetery. Their graves were first moved from their original burial places near Graball (10 miles North) to a site on the Community ...

Site: Judge James Paden House: Gen. J.D. Cox’s H’dq’rs

The Federal 23d A.C., Army of the Ohio, reached this vicinity via Old Shallow Ford Rd. (Clairmont) & N. Decatur Rd., evening of July 19, 1864. This was the N.E. sector of Sherman’s approach to Atlanta. Cox’s (3d) div. bivouacked ...

John Moore’s Tavern

1804 – 1817

Marker is on Lawrenceville Road (Main Street) (U.S. 206) 0 miles from Gordon Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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The Journey West

After the 1848 discovery of gold in California, more than 100,000 sturdy Americans passed through St. Joseph on their way west in quest of wealth, opportunity and better lives. The "Gold Rush" began and those who followed the "Star of ...

House of John Cutter

Site of the house

of

John Cutter.

Set on fire during the

British retreat,

April 19, 1775.

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave and Mill St, on the right when traveling west on Massachusetts Ave.

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Joseph Robidoux

City Founder

Near this site the French fur trader Joseph Robidoux established a trading post in 1826 while it was still Indian territory. Robidoux and his family oversaw a far-ranging fur trading empire.

The Platte Purchase of 1837 added the six county ...

St. John’s Church

(Episcopal)

Organized “in the Prairie” south of Greensboro

in 1834 by the Rev. Caleb Ives, pioneer

missionary to the old Southwest.

Admitted to parish status in 1838 by the

Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Provisional Bishop

of Alabama. First Rector

was the Rev. John Avery, D.D.

Present building designed ...