Battle of Griswoldville

On Nov. 22, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of Gen. Sherman’s army [US] moved SE from Clinton (near Gray) toward Gordon and Irwinton on its destructive March to the Sea. Walcutt brigade, with two guns of Arndt’s ...

The Second Battle of Kernstown

Two Future U.S. Presidents Fought at Kernstown

Colonel James A. Mulligan’s Union command of 1,800 men encamped on these heights on the night of July 23-24, 1864. When Confederate cavalry drove Union cavalry back toward Kernstown on the morning of the ...

Simpsonville Baptist Church

National Historic Site

Church Organized 1888

Built 1913

Entered in National Historic Register

October 13, 1992

Marker is on Church Street (County Route 220) south of County Route 219, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sgt. John T. Boxler

In memory of

Sgt. John T. Boxler

Automotive mechanic

U.S. Post Office

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Served his country two tours of duty in Vietnam. Gave his life for the American way February 25, 1991 in Operation Desert Storm in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia while on active duty ...

The First Battle of Kernstown

An Unheralded Commander’s Unique Victory

At 9:00 A.M. on March 23, 1862, Confederate artillery unlimbered near the Valley Turnpike and fired on this height, called Pritchard’s Hill, to begin the First Battle of Kernstown. Union artillery rolled onto these knolls and ...

Harmon Husband

Leader of North Carolina revolt against the British, he fled under an assumed name in 1771. Somerset's first settler; lived at Coffee Springs farm some years. Became a pamphleteer and active in the Whiskey Rebellion. Died in 1795.

Marker is at ...

Ridge Hill School / Faith Cabin Library

Ridge Hill School

This school, built in 1934, replaced the Ridge Hill Rosenwald School, a six-classroom frame school built in 1923-24. That school was funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, building more than 500 African-American schools in S.C. 1917-1932. ...

Proudly We Pay Tribute

[Stone Obelisk]:

Proudly we pay tribute

to the men and women

of the Westville Area

who served their

Country

[Bronze Marker behind glass]:

They died that we might live

1917 World War I 1918

Anton Gustas • Tony Gandy • Mike Gravatti • Antony Petro • Martin F. Vutrick

1941 ...

Bethel Primitive Baptist Church

Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, the second Baptist Church to be organized in the area of old Lowndes County, was constituted September 2, 1826. The

organizing Presbytery were: Elders Benjamin Manning. Matthew Albritton and Henry Melton, with Deacon William A. Knight. Charter ...

Confederate Line of Battle

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"Smoke soon hid everything, the firing was as rapid as musketry, and shot and shell flew in flocks."

Lt. Col. E. Porter Alexander, C.S.A.

Commander of the Confederate bombardment

Confederate artillery and infantry occupied the low, wooded ridge ...