Lacey's Spring

Abundant water and fertile land in this area south of the Tennessee River attracted pioneer settlement in the early 1800s. The community established here by three Virginia-born brothers, Hopkins, John, and Theophilus Lacy, took on their name and became the ...

Continental Barracks

Site of

Continental

Barracks

where General Stark tried and

condemned the Tory Lovelass

as a spy.

Marker is on Spring Street (New York Route 29), on the right when traveling west.

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Port Washington Light Station

This property has been listed in the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States Department of the Interior

Port Washington Light Station

1860

Marker is at the intersection of Johnson Street and East Van Buren Street, on the right when traveling ...

Battle of the Crater - Covered Way

At this place located by participants in the Battle of the Crater, this road, known as the Jerusalem Plank Road, was crossed by a covered way leading eastwardly to the ravine in rear of the Confederate breastworks which run northwardly ...

The Last Resting Place of Benjamin Franklin

1706 - 1790

"Venerated for benevolence, admired for talents, esteemed for patriotism, beloved for philanthropy."

Washington

"The sage whom two worlds claimed as their own."

Mirabeau

"He tore from the skies the lightning and from tyrants the sceptre."

Turgot

Marker ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower Farmstead

Dwight D. Eisenhower Farmstead has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 - This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States ...

Chronology of Benjamin Franklin

1706 Born at Boston, January 17.

1723 Removed to Philadelphia.

1729 Editor of Pennsylvania Gazette.

1730 Appointed Public Printer.

1731 Founded the Philadelphia Library.

1736 Organized the first Philadelphia Fire Company.

1737 Appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia.

1738 Member of the ...

Red Jacket

Red Jacket, a small brass cannon, was first used in firing a salute of 500 guns when Georgia seceded from the Union. In custody of the Columbus Guards, it fired salutes at the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of ...

General Stark

General Stark

held this position to prevent

British retreat to north.

Marker is at the intersection of Lakes to Locks Passage (U.S. 4) and Starks Knob Road, on the right when traveling south on Lakes to Locks Passage.

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Linwood Cemetery

A part of the 1828 plan of Columbus, Linwood contains graves of pioneer citizens and their descendents, as well as the tombs of some 200 Confederate soldiers. Among those buried here are Anna Caroline Benning (1853-1935), who formed the “Columbus ...