Healing Springs

God's Acre

By tradition, Healing Springs got its name during the Revolutionary War. In 1781 after a bloody battle at nearby Windy Hill Creek, four wounded Tories sent inland from Charleston by General Banastre "The Butcher" Tarleton were left in ...

"Missouri Waltz"

by Lee Edgar "Jelly" Settle

Lee Edgar Settle was born in New Franklin MO, on July 20, 1882, the son of J. M. and Laura (Van Aradale) Settle at xxxx S. Howard Street. Edgar Settle was a natural piano player and ...

Jasper Spring

On this spot, according to long and persistent tradition, occurred one of Sergeant William Jasper's most famous exploits during the American Revolution. Here, in 1779, at the spring then located along the road to Augusta. Sergeant Jasper and Sergeant John ...

Wasted Valor

On the plain below you, the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery enacted one of the tragic dramas of the Civil War.

“The field became a burning, seething, crashing, hissing hell, in which human courage, flesh and bone were struggling with an impossibility.…”

- ...

National Famine Memorial

Cuimhneachán Náisiúnta ar an nGorta Mór

To honour the memory of all who died, suffered and

emigrated due to the Great Famine of 1845 - 1850,

and the victims of all famines.

The Memorial was unveiled by the President of Ireland,

Mary Robinson, on 20 ...

First Maine Heavy Artillery Monument

(front)

Maine.

First Heavy Artillery

in memory of

604 brave members who fell

charging here

June 18, 1864

Union

Maine - Virginia

Peace

(rear)

Members of the

First Maine Heavy Artillery

who were here mortally wounded

June 18, 1864

...

Members of the

First Maine Heavy Artillery

who were here killed

June 18, 1864

...

Marker can be reached from Siege ...

Hare House Site

About this house swirled the tide of battle on June 18, 1864, and during “Lee’s Last Grand Offensive,” March 25, 1865.

Marker can be reached from Siege Road 1.6 miles from East Washington Street (Virginia Route 36).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bethlehem Baptist Church

(Front text)

This church, officially organized in 1868, had its origins in the antebellum Barnwell Baptist Church, which was located on this site until about 1854, when it built a new church on another lot. At that time several free ...

Colquitt’s Salient Trail

The Colquitt’s Salient loop trail will lead you over ground involved with two of the most dramatic events of the Siege of Petersburg.

On the walk to Colquitt’s Salient, you will shadow the advance of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery during ...

Prince George Court House Road

This old road was used by both Confederate and Union Armies in the fighting around Petersburg.

Marker can be reached from Siege Road 1.6 miles south of East Washington Street (Virginia Route 36).

Courtesy hmdb.org