26th N.C. Regimental Band

1862-1865

Organized in Salem, NC, March 1862, with members from local Moravian congregations. This volunteer Confederate band provided morale-building music for southern troops in many of the major campaigns during the War Between the States. The band was widely recognized as ...

1777 Reboubt

One of the redoubts and

breastworks erected by

the Continental troops,

June, 1777, to defend the

encampment in the valley.

Marker is on Bolmer Farm Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Gettysburg Campaign

Invasion and Retreat

After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north through the ...

Austin Brothers Bridge

Steel bridge erected 1913 across Yellowhouse Canyon on the Lubbock-Abernathy Road contract awared April 1913 to Austin Brothers Bridge Company of Dallas by the Lubbock County Commissioners. The 60 foot long, 12 foot wide, single-span, warren type truss bridge cost ...

The Burnt District Monument

(Left Side Plaque)

The Burnt District / Jennison's Tombstones

When the Civil War began, Cass County was home to over 1,700 families. The population of 8,900 free whites and 1,000 slaves reflected widely diverse origins. Many had migrated from Kentucky, Tennessee,and Virginia, ...

Templeton-Drake Cabin ca. 1764

Dedicated to

Jane Byrd Wilson

Sept. 19,1939 - March 17, 2000

She worked to preserve the valuable

heritage of the Boonesborough Township

Marker is on West Main Street (State Highway 184) south of Austin Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Ward-Belmont College

1913-1951

In 1913, Belmont College (est. 1890) and Ward's Seminary (est. 1865) merged to form Ward-Belmont College, a women's junior college, preparatory school, and music conservatory on Adelicia Acklen's Belle Monte estate. It was the first junior college in the South ...

Spirit of Greenbush

[South Side:]

Mos na harroni. Do not forget us.

Nina Pecoraro Borgman Carpenter

The best education I ever had was growing up in the Bush.

Billy McDonald

For the Italian girls our parents were too strict. It was school, home, and church.

Victoria Marie Gandolfo Pelliteri ...

The First Maryland Brigade

Morristown National Historical Park

The Marylanders were ordered south in April 1780 to reinforce the garrison at Charleston, South Carolina. The New Jersey Brigade, just back from guard posts near the British lines, moved into the Maryland huts for the next ...

Belmont Mansion

This mansion was built in 1853 as a summer home for Joseph and Adelicia Acklen. An 1860 addition by architect Adolphus Heiman expanded the mansion's size to 36 rooms. The entrance to the 177 acre estate, which featured gardens decorated ...