Confederate Camp Milner

Most Georgia troops for the Confederate Army were mobilized in Griffin. Camp Milner, the Cavalry Camp, was named for Ben Milner, prominent Spalding County man who gave financial aid in equipping companies from his county. Camp Stephens, the Infantry Camp, ...

Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery / Clarke Ceme

Roseville Plantation Slave And Freedman's Cemetery

This was originally the slave cemetery for Roseville Plantation. Roseville, established about 1771 by the Dewitt family, was later owned by the Brockinton, Bacot, and Clarke families from the 1820s through the Civil War. ...

Forest Industry in British Columbia

L’Industrie Forestiere en Colombie-Britannique

Harvesting of the forest has long been an important aspect of life on the Pacific Coast. The native people were the first to utilize this valuable resource in the construction of dwellings, canoes, and implements. In the ...

Mt. Zion Methodist Church

[Front]

This church, founded in 1868 with Rev. James Wesley Johnson as its first minister, held its early services in a brush arbor. In 1870 trustees purchased this 1 ¾ acre tract to build a “Negro Schoolhouse” sponsored by the ...

James Screven and Daniel Stewart

[North Face]:

1750 1778

Sacred to the

Memory of

Brigadier General

James Screven

who fell, covered with wounds, at

Sunbury, near this spot, on the 22nd

day of November, 1778. He died

on the 24th day of November, 1778,

from the effects of his wounds.

[South Face]:

1759 1829

Sacred to the

Memory of

Brigadier ...

Mt. Zion Rosenwald School

[Front]

This school, built in 1925, was the first public school for African American students in the Mars Bluff community. One of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, it features a ...

The Town Of North

In the year 1891, John F. North, Samson A. Livingston, and George W. Pou gave jointly and equally one hundred acres of land to establish a town and railway depot. The seperate tracts joined near this spot. The town was ...

Washington County Honor Rolls Memorial

The following twenty-one (21) honor roll memorials are arranged as one single ‘marching army in review.’ They are arrayed east to west (starting from the side-walk stairs) in a chronological order (from the American Revolution and ending with Vietnam War.)

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Lutheran Publication Society

To commemorate

the founding

of the

Lutheran

Publication Society

at a meeting held in

Trinity

Lutheran Church

May 1st, 1855

The Board of Publication

of the

United Lutheran Church in America

1955

Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue ...

Maury’s School

Just north was a classical school conducted by the Rev. James Maury, rector of Fredericksville Parish from 1754 to 1769. Thomas Jefferson was one of Maury’s students. Matthew Fontaine Maury, the “Pathfinder of the Seas,” was Maury’s grandson.

Marker is on ...