Santa Fe Trail

Camino de Santa Fe

(limestone marker)

"A Highway Between Nations"

Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, 1825

(red granite marker)

Santa Fe Trail

1821 - 1872

Marked by the

Daugters of the

American Revolution

and the

State of Missouri

1909

New Santa ...

Fighting in Twilight

The Hatch-Hood Collision

Officers said the Rebels were retreating. Hatch’s Division was ordered to pursue. Marching double-quick west on the turnpike, the Federals reached this hill just after sundown.

Suddenly the ridge erupted with fire. In the confusion—screaming horses, showers of earth ...

Walter Perry Johnson

"The Big Train"

Walter Johnson might have been the fastest pitcher in baseball history. With his sweeping sidearm delivery, the "Big Train" led the league in strikeouts 12 times during a 21 year career with the Washington Nationals from 1907 ...

Sherman at Pooler

On Dec. 9, 1864, troops of Mower`s division, 17th Corps, of Gen. Sherman`s army (Federal) , which was closing in on Savannah, advanced to Pooler after suffering losses through the day from artillery mounted on a RR flat car, torpedoes ...

Sudley Methodist Church

The site for the first church, a small brick building, was donated by Landon Carter of Woodland in 1822. During the battles of Manassas (Bull Run), it was used as a field hospital by both the North and the South, ...

Bellona Foundry

Gun and gun mold recovered by C. Merle Luck from the James River on August 18, 1962 having been put there during Col. Dahlgren's Raid during the Civil War.

Marker is on Old Gun Road, on the right when traveling west. ...

Holding the Fort

Imagine being here in 1863, surrounded by Fort Sumter's ruins, when this shell (photo below) explodes on the parade ground. Throughout the Civil War the fort was the center of the bitter conflict to control Charleston Harbor. For nearly two ...

Confederate Post in 1864

Near this spot, Company F of the Third South Carolina Cavalry, Lieut. W.L. Mole commanding, was stationed during the summer of 1864. The Company was on Patrol duty, guarding the Coast of McIntosh County.

On the night of August 18th, the ...

History of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

The city of Muscle Shoals began with the construction of U.S. Nitrate Plant No.2 and Wilson Dam for defense purposes in 1918. The name came from the great stretch of rapids in the Tennessee River that contained rocky shoals and ...

Pioneer Turpentining Experiment

Dr. Charles Holmes Herty of the University of Georgia Chemistry Department conducted experiments in this forest that revolutionized the naval stores industry in America. Inspired by conservative gum resin gathering methods in Europe, Dr. Herty devised a method using metal ...