Ashurbanipal Monument

The Assyrians

The Assyrians formed one of the earliest great empires in the world. Their civilization dates from 2700 B.C. with the important cultural centers at Ashur and Nineveh north of modern Baghdad. Beginning as a river civilization in Mesopotamia ...

"El Adobe de Capistrano"

An historic landmark uniting the "Miguel Yorba Adobe" 1778 "Juzgado" (Court and Jail) 1812

Marker is on Camino Capistrano, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Brentsville - The Gallows

The County gallows was located in this area. The gallows was erected when needed then disassembled. It was a grim symbol of the ultimate price of lawbreaking. Gallows were widely used in America to execute the convicted.

In 19th-century Virginia, the ...

Blas Aguilar Adobe

May date back to 1794. It was part of two buildings known as Hacienda Aguilar. This adobe is associated with Don Blas Aguilar, the last Alcalde (Mayor) of the Mexican period.

Marker is on El Camino Real, on the right when ...

Elbert County's Dead in the Civil War

[Center]:

In characters of living light

That tell a wondrous story.

Their deeds have brightened many a page

With never-dying glory.

[Left panel]:

Thomas J. Ayres Clement Brewer Thompson H. Dye

Elijah Allgood John R. Booth Wash W Dye

J.H. Alexander Middleton Brown Charles Duncan

Alfred ...

Hessian Barracks - Witness to History

1777 Built at direction of Maryland General Assembly

1778-79 Quartered Hessian and Convention prisoners captured at Bennington and Saratoga

1782 Quartered Hessian and Bayreuth Yager Regiments following Cornwallis' surrender

1799 Quartered French sailors of the L'Surgent captured by U.S.S. Constellation

1802-03 Served as staging ...

Domingo Yorba Adobe

This 1830 structure is typical of San Juan Capistrano adobes of this period; thick walls and a wood shingle roof. The house was purchased by Domingo Oyharzabal in 1880 and occupied by his family for over 100 years.

Marker is on ...

Garcia Adobe

Built in the 1840's by Manuel Garcia, it originally had a second story over only half of the ground floor. In 1880 the remaining space was covered by a second floor and a balcony was added. It was a post ...

The Guillebeau House

The Guillebeau House

was built in circa 1770

in the Huguenot settlement

of New Bordeaux. It was

relocated to its present

site in 1983.

Marker is on Resort Drive, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Seaboard Airline Depot

[Stone Marker]:

Home of

Elbert County

Historical Society

Built 1910 - Restored 1986 - 1989

[Separate Plaque]:

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior.

Marker is at the intersection of Deadwyler Street and North Oliver Street (Georgia Highway 77), ...