Bridgeport

In 1852 Andrew Church established a trading post where a road from the San Joaquin Valley, crossed the Agua Fria Creek. The site, known as Bridgeport, was on the Fremont Grant, about five miles south of Aqua Fria, first county ...

California State Mining and Mineral Museum

The California State Geological Society started collecting mineral specimens in 1865. In 1880, the California State Mining Bureau was founded. This plaque is dedicated to the miners and founders for their foresight. Todays collection displays specimens from all over the ...

Washington Light Infantry Monument

[South side]:

At every board a vacant chair fills with quick tears some tender eye, and at our maddest sport appear those well loved forms that will not die; we lift the glass, our hand is stayed - we jest ...

Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865

(Front):

Confederate

1861 - Soldiers - 1865

Erected by The Confederate Home

Albertson, Maberry; Bethea, W. F.; Brooks, Robert; Brown, G. W.; Bozman, William; Bush, J. E.; Carter, F. M.; Cameron, W. C.; Chambers, H. A.; Connell, W. E; Connors, T. H.; Cockrell, J. ...

William W. Harllee

President of Wilmington & Manchester Railroad and a founder of the city of Florence, Harllee (1812-1897) was also a general in the SC Militia, signer of Ordinance of Secession, Lt. Governor (1860-62), member of the General Assembly, and president of ...

Bethlehem United Methodist Church

Oldest Methodist Church in Barrow County, organized in the 1780’s. Services first held two miles N.E. in log house. In 1790 a church was built nearby. The present site was originally a camp ground with an arbor, tents & cottages ...

Battery E, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery

Randolph's Battery

(Front):Battery E

Randolph's Battery

1. Lt. J.K. Bucklyn, Commanding.

(Right):3 men killed

2 officers

and

24 men

wounded

(Right):Battery E

1st. R.I. L.A.

Artillery

Brigade

3rd Corps

July 2, 1863.

Marker is on Emmitsburg Road (Business U.S. 15), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Red Doe

[Front]

This house was built in 1846 for Evander A. Gregg (1818-1874), a planter in what was Marion District. Its high masonry basement and porch form, indigenous to northeastern S.C., make it a fine example of a raised Carolina cottage. ...

Crownover Chapel

Backbone Valley's first public building, started 1859 on 7-acre tract donated that year by heirs of settler Jefferson Barton. Finished 1870, chapel was named for the Rev. Arter Crownover (1810-76), whose preaching of Methodist faith opened its use. Building soon ...

Stephen Collins Foster

Erected in Memory of Stephen Collins Foster

At the Source of the Stream Which he made Immortal in Song

“Suwanee River”

Donated by Charles J. Haden

Marker is on Georgia Route 94 0.1 miles south of U.S. 441, on the left when traveling south. ...