Birthplace of John L. Worden 1818-1897

Rear Admiral U.S. Navy

Commanded “Monitor” against

“Merrimac” Hampton Roads,

Virginia, March 9, 1862

Marker is on Albany Post Road (U.S. 9) south of Scarborough Road, on the right when traveling north.

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British Landing Site

At this historic spot, on July 5, 1779 during the American Revolution Brigadier General Garth, with his First Division landed with 1000 British soldiers and marched up Savin Avenue to the Green.

Harriet C. North

City Historian

Donated by Lions Club of West ...

Battle at Stones River

Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's Eve 1862.

To explore their stories, start ...

Mount Moriah Baptist Church

The members of Mount Moriah Baptist Church belong to one of the region's earliest African American congregations, originating in a Sunday school for slaves established in the mid-1800s by Dr. Charles L. Cocke, founder of Hollins College. The group gained ...

Printer John Miller

This London newspaper publisher and defender of a free press emigrated to Charleston in 1783 where he served as state printer and publisher of the first daily newspaper in South Carolina. Later in Pendleton he founded Miller's Weekly Messenger the ...

VFW Post 1684 Memorial

Erected 1964 By Post 1684

In Grateful Tribute

To The Living And The Dead Who Through

Their Valiant Effort And Supreme

Sacrifice Have Helped To Preserve

Us A Free Nation

Marker can be reached from the intersection of 1st Avenue and Spring Street, on the ...

Kings Ferry

This was the original site

of this river crossing used

in colonial days. Moved

during the Revolution to

the area of Fort Lafayette.

Marker is on Kings Ferry Road, on the left when traveling west.

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The Flowery Branch Depot

Cotton, leather and furniture, as well as manufactured items from the region passed through these walls, as did passengers during its working years (c.1890-1970s) as a Richmond & Danville Railroad and Southern Railway System Depot. Sold to the City of ...

The Covered Wagon

1630 - 1930

On December 3, 1787, the first covered wagon to leave

Massachusetts for the west

set forth from this spot

arriving the next spring in

the northwest territory and

founding Marietta, Ohio.

Marker is on Bay Road (Alternate Massachusetts Route 1), on the right when ...

Christ Prayer Chapel

“Come ye yourselves apart” (Mark 6-31) to pray / Any hour—any day.

Formerly Christ Episcopal Church, consecrated December 5, 1920, deconsecrated August 28, 1976. Moved October 18, 1976 from South Main Street to its present location and restored by Macedonia United ...