Broad Street Station

Broad Street Station served passengers of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad from 6 Jan. 1919 until 15 Nov. 1975. The Neoclassical Revival station was the only commercial building designed by John Russell Pope, ...

Fighting in a Forest Primeval

Kings Mountain...would have enabled us to oppose a superior force with advantage had it not been covered with wood which sheltered the Americans and enabled them to fight in their favorite manner.

Alexander Chesney, South Carolina loyalist

The woods you see around ...

The Commissariat Office

The office for the Commissariat Department was built in 1831 near the government wharf and storehouse. Commissary officials purchased from local contractors the flour, beef, straw and firewood used by troops. They also managed Fort Malden's finances, including the soldiers' ...

Western & Atlantic Depot

This is the only depot between Atlanta and Chattanooga that has been in continuous use since May 9, 1850, when the first train ran over this end of the line. Previous to the coming of the W & A to ...

Liberty Bridge

Honoring Liberty Corporation founder

W. Frank Hipp and his children

Francis M. Hipp, Herman N. Hipp,

B. Calhoun Hipp and Dorothy Hipp Gunter

for their commitment and countributions

to the Greenville community.

Marker is on South Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Abraham Lincoln

This statue of the Great Emancipator portrays in his last days the thin, tired, war-worn president in thoughtful and deep meditation and is considered one of the finest bronze statues ever made of President Lincoln. It was created by one ...

Medora Field Perkerson

Author - Newspaper Columnist

Medora Field (1892-1960) was born nearby on the site of the present Lindale Baptist Church. In her early twenties she became a member of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine staff, and later was married to Angus Perkerson, its ...

Market Space: Yesterday’s Town Square

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Hay for the horses, produce for the table, live chickens for the pot, and a hat for your head.”

All this and more could be had right here during the Civil War. The triangular area ...

Manitowoc Submarines

[Marker Front]:

During World War II the Wisconsin-based Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company constructed twenty-eight Gato Class fleet submarines. These boats, dubbed “Freshwater Submarines”, bolstered the production of existing naval shipyards. The completed submarines made their way from Lake Michigan down the ...

The Mississippi River in the Civil War

The Mississippi River in the Civil War

"Whatever nation gets control of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, will control the continent."

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1861

The goal of both the Northern (Federal or Union) and Southern (Confederate) armies was to ...