Evergreen Cemetery / Earliest Evergreen Burials

Evergreen Cemetery

In 1873, local lumber company Knapp, Stout & Company, Co. provided fifty-two acres to establish a proper burial site. They hired landscape architects, William Merchant Richardson French and Horace Shaler Cleveland, to design the cemetery. French's plan reflects ...

Temple Wilson Tutwiler, II / Tutwiler Hotel

March 22, 1923 - March 1, 1982

Temple Wilson Tutwiler, II

“Tutwiler Green”, this section of Birmingham Green was so named in a resolution passed by the Birmingham City Council to honor the life and work of Temple Tutwiler II, who contributed ...

Somers Veterans Monument

Dedicated To

The Men and Women Of

Somers, Who Have Served

Or Will Serve in The

Armed Forces

Of the United States

1994

Marker is on Somerstown Turnpike (U.S. 202) 0.1 miles west of New York Route 116, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Presbyterian Church

Organized by settlers from Liberty County on Dec 3, 1864. The first minister, Rev. Eli Graves, came from Brooks County once a month to hold services in the courthouse before the first church was dedicated in 1867. Early elders were ...

The Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina

1783

On this site stood The City Tavern where on August 29, 1783, forty-three officers of the Continental Army residing in South Carolina met at the call of Major General William Moultrie to establish The Society of the Cincinnati in ...

Somers World War I Monument

1917 1919

Erected by the Town of Somers

In Honor of Those Who Served

In the Great War for Democracy

Mildred Ashforth • William Bailey, Capt. • E. Stanley Baker • N. John Beigan • James Benedict • Bombay Bernado • Abner Brown • ...

Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery

Second Battle of Manassas

August 28, 1862

6:30 p.m.

1st Division (King), Third Corps (McDowell),

Army of Virginia, USA

Company B, 4th U.S. Artillery

Capt. Joseph B. Campbell

Six 12-pounder Napoleons

"Campbell's pieces came up on the gallop, these fences along the pike being torn down to let ...

Green Acres Café

1705 - 4th Avenue, North

Businesses that occupied this building between 1908 - 1970

1908 - 1913 Southern Bell Telephone Company Stockroom

1915 - 1926 OK French Dry Cleaning Company

1927 - 1938 George Kanelis Billiards

1940 - 1945 Alex’s Steak House

1946 - 1971 OK ...

North Pacific Cannery

Salmon canning stimulated economic development on this coast. North Pacific is the oldest West Coast cannery still standing. From here the Bell-Irving family shipped high quality salmon directly to England before 1900. Typical of most canneries in its isolation and ...

Glen Iris Park

Founded in 1898 by Robert Jemison, this 30-acre historic district is a private residential park containing an almost intact collection of some of Birmingham's finest 20th century houses. It was the first professionally landscaped residential community in the city and ...