British Defenses: The Upper Works

The Upper Works was the main British defensive position. As in the Outer Works, an abatis spanned the width of the peninsula. Included in the abatis were artillery positions, but these weapons, mostly heavy ship guns, were intended for long-range, ...

Balmoral Mounds

Ancient Mounds Trail

Balmoral has 3 mounds that form an equilateral triangle. The one on this side of the road is 8 feet high and conical. The one farthest south and across the road is an 11 foot high platform mound. ...

The Greenbush

1891 - 1960

This memorial is dedicated to the memory of those immigrants who settled this area at the turn of the twentieth century.

The 'Greenbush' site, known as the Triangle area, was a unique neighborhood composed of fourteen homogeneous ethnic groups. ...

Cane Break

1050-acre plantation belonging to

Thomas Green Clemson, 1842-1851. Clemson

Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1844-1851,

and founder of Clemson University, lived

at Cane Break from January to July 1844.

In his absence Col. Francis Pickens and

Sen. John C. Calhoun often visited Cane

Break and attended to its ...

55 Ashley Avenue   The Baker House

The Baker House was constructed in 1912 as the Baker-Craig Sanitarium. This sixty-bed hospital and nursing school was founded by Dr. Archibald E. Baker Sr. and Dr. Lawrence Craig. The Baker House was designed by John D. Newcomer and Ernest ...

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

A local landmark since 1907, this boardwalk was one of the first amusement parks in California. It is now the only oceanside amusement park operating on the west coast. The boardwalk is the site of two rare attractions, the 1911 ...

New Bordeaux Worship Site

Site of the

Place of Worship

of the

French Protestant

Congregation

of

New Bordeaux

Organized 1764

Marker is on Worship Site Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Railroad Block-house

On Allatoona Creek in this vicinity, a Federal block-house, guarding State R.R. bridge, was garrisoned by Companies E, F, and I, of the 18th Wisconsin Regt.

Oct. 5, 1864, while retreating from Allatoona, 2 mi. N., French’s Div. of Stewart’s A.C. ...

Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski

Erected By

The Citizens of New Britain

In memory of

Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski

"Father of Our Cavalry"

Born in Poland

Killed in the Battle

Of Savannah, Ga.

Died 1779 --- 1929 U.S.

Congress Declared

October 11th as Pulaski Day

Marker is at the intersection of Burritt Street and Broad ...

Battle of Falling Waters

Harper’s 5th Virginia Infantry

On the morning of July 2, 1861, Federal troops under Gen. Robert Patterson crossed the Potomac River from Maryland and marched toward Martinsburg. Confederate Col. Thomas J. Jackson’s command marched from Camp Stephens, four miles north ...