Mike Garfield

In Memory of

Mike Garfield

Friend of Children • Community Servant

Lover of Greer • Dream Builder

Visionary for Kids Planet and Kids Planet Too

Through the laughter of those at play, Mike's legacy endures.

His character and his dreams will continue on!

1939 - 2001

Marker can ...

Lady of the Night

Here lie the remains of Marie Holmes, a lady of the night, who on the evening of May 5, 1898, met a lonely and untimely end with the quaffing of carbolic acid. Born in England, she resided in San Francisco, ...

Futile Approach

During the August 1777 Siege of Fort Stanwix, British forces dug trenches near this site. This attempt to bring their guns closer to the fort's powder magazine, located in the bastion in front of you, failed.

At the end of the ...

Freedman’s Savings And Trust

On this site stood the principal office of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company founded on March 3, 1865 to receive deposits from former slaves. Frederick Douglass served as its last president. The bank was closed on June 29, 1874. ...

The Architectural Evolution Of The Hermitage

A Matter of Style and Substance

Like its landscape, so too have the homes of the Hermitage been touched by time and circumstance. Andrew and Rachel Jackson's first Hermitage home was a substantial and well-furnished two-story log farmhouse, where they lived ...

Federals Take a Stand

7:00 a.m., July 9, 1864

After skirmishing on July 8 with Confederates west of Frederick, MD, Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace’s 5,800 Union troops—many of them “raw and untried”—took a stand at the Monocacy River. Wallace carefully chose this critical intersection of ...

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Montgomery County

United States of America

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Montgomery County

Civil War

Downs, Henry W. Sgt. Winchester, Virginia 1864

James, Isaac, Pvt. Petersburg, Virginia 1865

James, John H. Capt. Mobile Bay, Alabama 1864

Matthews, John C. Cpl. Petersburg, Virginia ...

Confederates Invade Maryland

7:00 a.m, July 9, 1864

Confederate troops under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early streamed through the gaps of South Mountain and the Catoctins and headed south past Frederick. Bound for Washington, D.C., they were stopped here at the Best family farm ...

Fountain Cave

Fountain Cave, a landmark known as early as 1811, was named for the sparkling creek that flowed from its mouth and continued some 375 feet through a ravine to join the Mississippi River about 140 feet downstream from this marker. ...

Replica of the Statue of Liberty

With the faith and courage of

their forefathers who made

possible the freedom of these

United States

The Boy Scouts of America

dedicate this copy of the

Statue of Liberty as a pledge

of everlasting fidelity and

and loyalty

The Crusade to Strengthen Liberty

Marker is on 2nd Street near ...