Twin Cypress Mexican Sniper Tree

An old legend describes this twin cypress as a lookout of a Mexican sniper who picked off the Texans as they came to the river for water.

Marker is at the intersection of River Walk and W. Crockett Street on River ...

Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station

1990

In 1990, construction of the largest prefabricated power plant in the world, the Sidney A. Murray, Jr., Hydroelectric Station, was completed 40 miles south of Vidalia. It was the vision of Mayor Sidney A. Murray, Jr. to harness the power ...

Education in Merriam

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

From 1837 to 1869 the Quaker Mission educated the children from area Indian settlements. The early settlers of Campbellton sent their children to the Hickory Grove School, which was located near present day Shawnee Mission North ...

Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Herff

Ferdinand Ludwig Von Herff (1820-1912) was the son of Christian and Eleanora (Von Meusebach) Herff, prominent citizens of Darmstadt, Germany. The younger Von Herff studied in Giessen, Bonn and Berlin, graduating with a medical degree in 1843. He served as ...

San Antonio River Indian Springs

On this site are the springs used by the inhabitants of the ancient Indian village and later by Mission San Antonio de Valero and its adjoining pueblo.

Marker is at the intersection of N. Presa St. and Riverwalk Street on N. ...

Bridgewater WW I Memorial

Dedicated to those who gave their lives and in honor of those who left their daily tasks among us to serve our country in the World War 1917-1918

In Memoriam

John Sheskey • Joseph C. Wellwood

Honor Roll

William Anderson • Lewis C. Beardsley ...

The Mormon Trail

The Southern Route of the Mormon Trail followed paths explored by Father Garces and Jedediah Smith. In 1848, Mormon Battalion Captain Jefferson Hunt trailed cattle to Utah on this trail. The Daniel Davis family, also of the Mormon Battalion, followed ...

The Confederate Hospital

The Confederate hospital was built here under the direction of Dr. Andrew Russell Meem, by order of the Confederate Medical Department in Sept. 1861. The hospital consisted of three two-story buildings, each 150 feet long, accommodating 500 patients. At the ...

Bridgewater WW II Memorial

Honor Roll World War II

Andrew Antoni • Kenneth Berry • Alfred W. Burch • Jos H. Burch • Everett J. Beardsley • Lewis G. Beardsley • William J. Beardsley • Fenner E. Brownell • Harold Carlson • Peter Dineen • ...

James M. Buchanan

1919 -

James M. Buchanan, economist and author, received the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Grandson of a former governor, he attended Middle Tennessee State Teachers College, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Chicago. Buchanan's emphasis on ...