Site of Speeches by Douglas and Lincoln

Site of Speeches by Douglas and Lincoln.

Sept. 30 / Oct. 4

1858

Marker can be reached from South Frances Street south of West Bertram Street.

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Burning of the Bridge

12:00 noon July 9, 1864

Confederates wearing captured blue uniforms had killed or wounded several Union skirmishers who had been sent across the Monocacy River to hold the Georgetown Turnpike and B&O Railroad bridges "at all hazards."

The two sides traded shots ...

Robert Thomas Scott

1800-1863

Planter, tavern operator, newspaper editor, legislator, and land developer, he sought in vain to have the Jackson County seat moved from Bellefont to the settlement that bore his name. After his death in 1863, his widow reached an agreement in ...

Stone Creek Baptist Church - 1808

Constituted September 3, 1808, this Church was first located two miles from here on a rocky hill overlooking Stone Creek, a tributary of the Ocmulgee. In 1842 the meetings were moved to an Academy at this site and in 1850 ...

Winnebago Trail

?Many modern highways follow routes marked out long ago by Indian people. The Winnebago Trail across central Wisconsin became the general course of Highways 151 from Manitowoc to Fond du Lac, 45 from Fond du Lac to Oshkosh, 21 from ...

Hillsboro Toll Gate

No. 1

Ten yds. north stood toll gate and toll gate house erected by Nashville and Hillsboro Turnpike Co., Incorporated in 1848. Charges to travel macadamized road could not exceed: horse of mule, 3 cents; 10 sheep, 20 cents; 20 meat ...

Scottsboro Railroad Depot

The Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company constructed the Scottsboro Railroad Depot in 1860-1861 as a passenger and freight facility. The rail line ran throughout the Confederacy and the Union considered its capture vital to cutting off supplies to the south. ...

Semmes's Brigade

McLaws's Division - Longstreet's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Longstreet's Corps McLaws's Division

Semmes's Brigade

10th. 50th. 51st. 53rd. Georgia Infantry

July 2 Arrived about 3.30 p.m. and formed line 50 yards west of this. Advanced about 5 p.m. in support of Kershaw and Anderson ...

Robert E. Lee

In loving memory of

Robert E. Lee

and to mark the route of the

Dixie Highway

“The shaft memorial and highway straight

attest his worth — he cometh to his own.”

— Littlefield —

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 25 and S. Serpentine, ...

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

In 1839 a group of black Detroit citizens formed the Colored Methodist Society, which became the core of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The group held meetings in a hall which was donated by the Detroit Common Council. The ...