Water Avenue

Selma’s Water Avenue is one of the finest surviving examples of a 19th century riverfront street in the south. Located here are structures which reflect the architectural trends in commercial buildings from 1830 to 1900.

This was the main business artery ...

Near this spot stood Montcalm

1712 - - - 1759

Near this spot stood Louis-Joseph de Gozon Marquis de Montcalm on the 8th of July 1758. With a small force of French troops and Canadian volunteers, he prevented the capture of Fort Carillon by defeating ...

Robert Loveman

Poet

In Loving Memory

Robert Loveman

Poet

Cleveland, Ohio

April 11,1864

Hot Springs, Arkansas

July 9,1923

He spent most of his life in Dalton, Georgia

where he did the greater part of his writing including the famous

"Rain Song"

"It isn't raining rain to me it's raining daffodils"

"The mortal tide move ...

Mormon Battalion

LDS Church

Dec 14, 1846

Last camp on

San Pedro

Turned west

toward Tucson

Erected 1960

Marker is on 4th Street (Business U.S. 10) near Ocotillo Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frances Fisher Tiernan

"Christian Reid"

In Loving Memory

Frances Fisher Tiernan

"Christian Reid"

Novelist

Born in Salisbury N.C. July 2,1846

Died in Salisbury N.C. March 24,1920

In 1876 she published her novel, "The Land of The Sky." For sometime she lived in Western North Carolina and she gave to this ...

Council Rocks

Four miles southeast at

Council Rocks

Apache peace treaty with Cochise

was ratified in 1872

Near Dragoon Springs on October 12, 1872, General O.O. Howard and Cochise, Chief of the Chiricahua Apache Indians, ratified a peace treaty ending years of warfare between that tribe ...

Sidney Lanier

In memory of

Sidney Lanier 1842-1881

Poet and Musician

Who Spent his last days among these hills

"Thyself Thy Monument"

Marker is on Old Airport Road (North Carolina Route 1547) east of Henderson Road (U.S. 25), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Redoubt Brannan

Fortress Rosecans

... scattered about on the most commanding positions inside the [fortress] are four or five "redoubts" or small square forts, mounting heavy siege guns, which completely command the lunettes and also the surrounding country. These works are all named ...

Mt. Gilead Baptist Church

Fort Gaines, Georgia

This church was constituted on July 21, 1822, under the leadership of the Rev. Jim Davis, when Fort Gaines was part of Early County. Land for the church was donated and deeded by J. Hugh Edge. The ...

Iron Horse Memorial

(obverse)

This Mikado type steam locomotive is dedicated to Illinois Central men and women, past and present, and to the importance of the railroad to Paducah's history and commerce. No. 1518 is the last "Iron Horse" owned by the ICRR. Engines ...