Historic Decatur Cemetery

The oldest known publicly owned burial ground in metro Atlanta, the Decatur Cemetery is believed to predate the city’s 1823 incorporation. The first written record is an 1832 act of legislature providing “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Ground.”

Expanded many times, ...

Fortress Rosecrans

The mounds in front of you are the remains of the largest earthen fortification built during the Civil War.

Constructed in 1863 after the Battle of Stones River, Fortress Rosecrans protected the huge Union supply depot at Murfreesboro. It included nearly ...

Pratt Homesite

Circa 1842

Daniel Pratt, Prattville’s founding father,

constructed an imposing home and garden

within a quarter-mile of this site on

Autauga Creek, near his industrial complex.

The large home was designed and erected by

Pratt himself, a noted architect / builder.

The white frame house featured New ...

Morgan's Condederate Dead

Morgan's Raid in Harrison County (Indiana)

(Confederate Side of Marker):

Morgan's Confederate Dead

Pvt. Greene Bottomer

Pvt. John Dunn

Pvt. Albert Womack

Eight Unknown Dead

Forty Wounded

(On Marker Base):

Park Ground Donated by C. B. Hays Family

(Northern Side of Marker):

Morgan's Raid in Harrison Co.

July 8 - 9, 1863

Home ...

Richard W. Simpson

Born in 1840, Colonel Simpson, lawyer, farmer, and legislator, drafted and executed Thomas Green Clemson's will, establishing Clemson Agricultural College in 1889. Simpson was first president of the college's board of trustees and once owned land which became part of ...

Veterans Park

Our debt

to the heroic men

and valiant women

in the service of our

country

can never be repaid.

They have earned

our undying gratitude.

America will never

forget their sacrifices.

President Harry S. Truman

Marker is on Main Street, on the right when ...

General Casimir Pulaski

General

Casimir Pulaski

Father Of

American Cavalry

Polish Patriot

Who Fought For

American Independence

Mortally Wounded

At Savannah Georgia

Died October 11, 1779

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Erected Thru

The Efforts Of

Polish American Citizens

Of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

1940

Marker is ...

Thomas Green Clemson

1807 - 1888

A native Philadelphian and leading agriculturist, Mr. Clemson was U.S. charge d'affaires to Belgium, U.S. Superintendent of Agriculture, and the 1868 president of Pendleton Farmers Society. He married the daughter of John C. Calhoun, Anna, and later bought ...

Williams' Ky. Cavalry at Nancy's Creek

A concerted, but scattered endeavor was made by Wheeler’s cavalry [CS] to oppose the advance of Federal forces from four Chattahoochee River crossings toward Atlanta, July 1864.

July 18. Brig. Gen. John S. Williams’ (formerly Grigsby’s) Kentucky brigade, Wheeler’s cav., patrolled ...

Major General Daniel Morgan - New Jersey

Commander of the Famed Morgan Rifle Corps

Born in this Village of New Hampton, Lebanon

Township, NJ in 1736.

Died in Winchester, VA July 6, 1802.

Military Service

French and Indian War

Revolutionary War

Battle of Quebec, Canada Captured 1775