Yavapai Observation Station

1928

This observation station was developed so that visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park may gain appreciation of scientific values, the earth's beauty and magnitude, and the significance of time as exemplified in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. ...

The Town Of Brunson

On November 7, 1872, a post office was established in this community, named for William E. Brunson, Sr., who donated the site. Brunson was chartered in 1874. The Town Hall, built in 1906, originally stood on stilts and covered the ...

Brownsboro Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery

After migrating from Norway in 1845, Ole Reierson bought the land that included this cemetery site (1.' mi. ESE). He chose the spot for his burial and carved several of the plain brown gravestones before he died in 1852. The ...

Old Belleville or Troup Cemetery

Within these walls are buried Captain Troup, British Naval officer, and his wife, Catherine McIntosh Troup. They were the parents of George M. Troup, Governor

Georgia 1823-1827; U.S. Senator 1829-1833. It was on this plantation that Georgia M. Troup spent ...

Mosby’s Rock

The large boulder, located just south of here, served as an important landmark during the Civil War, when Col. John S. Mosby’s Partisan Rangers (43d Battalion, Virginia Cavalry) assembled there to raid Union outposts, communications, and supply lines. Laura Ratcliffe, ...

Cartersville Baptist Church

According to tradition, free African-Americans established a religious congregation, which met in private homes, in this area as early as 1863. Rose Carter, a member of the community, donated land for a church in 1903. The church served the residents ...

Scales's Brigade

Pender's Division - Hill's Corps

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Pender's Division

Scales's Brigade

13th. 16th. 22nd. 34th. 38th.

North Carolina Infantry

July 1 Crossed Willoughby Run about 3.30 p.m. relieving Heth's line and advancing with left flank on Chamberstubrg Pike took part in the ...

Crenshaw's Battery - Pegram's Battalion

Artillery Reserve - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Artillery Reserve

Pegram's Battalion Crenshaw's Battery

Two Napoleons, Two 12 pounder Howitzers

July 1 The Napoleons occupied the ridge west of Herr's Tavern and took an active part in the battle. The Howitzers were ...

Brownsville Pass: Semmes’ Gamble

General Robert E. Lee directed Major General Lafayette McLaws to close in on the Federal garrison at Harper’s Ferry via Elk Ridge, west of South Mountain. McLaws’ route from Frederick took him through Middletown, where he turned southwest on the ...

Owensboro

Once the intersection of two competing railroads, the South Florida Railroad (part of the Plant System, later Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, built in 1884-85) and the Florida Railway & Navigation Company (later the Florida Central & Peninsular Railway and eventually ...