Civil War Camp

Near here a Civil War training camp was built in August 1861. Named Camp Holton, Camp Sigel and finally Camp Reno, its boundaries were Prospect and Bartlett Avenues and Lafayette and Royall Places. Six Wisconsin infantry regiments, almost 7,000 men, ...

Major Peter Bocquet's House

c.1770

Peter Bocquet the younger built this house

shortly after the lot was given to him in July,

1770, by his father Peter Bocquet, senior, a

Huguenot immigrant. The younger Bocquet

became a major in the Revolutionary forces,

a member ...

Excellent Good Timber

Colonists marvelled at the deep, tall forests of Virginia – then set to clearing them away. The “goodly tall Trees” became firewood, fort walls, house frames, boat planks, barrel staves, industrial fuel, and lumber exports.

Jamestown’s ruins yielded many tools of ...

Tom Brooks Park

Herbert Thomas Brooks served in community leadership roles for over 50 years. His leadership and vision affected almost every facet of the community and can be seen in the physical beauty of Collierville's landscape as well as the design of ...

Merion Village

Side A:

Merion Village was named for the Nathaniel Merion family, who in 1809 settled what is now the South Side of Columbus on 1800 acres of the Refugee Lands. Entrepreneur William Merion operated “Merion's Landing” in the 1830s to capitalize ...

St. Charles Seminary

The Theological Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo had its beginnings on South Fifth Street on June 26, 1832. In subsequent years the seminary was located in several different buildings all near this Church of St. Mary, at that time Philadelphia's ...

Bay View's Rolling Mill

Near this site in Bay View stood the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill, the first major heavy industry in the region and an important producer of iron and steel for the Midwest. The mill, which opened in 1868, transformed ore ...

Bamberg County

[Photo of guest room]

Ehrhardt Hall

This restored 19th century mansion located in

the town of Ehrhardt is a bed and breakfast

and features six guest rooms with amenities

including fireplaces.

[Photo of Sinclair Station]

Olar Sinclair Station

In 1929, Rubye Morris opened this Sinclair Gas

Station ...

William Elder, Sr.

William Elder, Sr., named this land Mount Saint Mary's & established (ca. 1743) his home "Pleasant Level" and the Elder Cemetery on the plain below. His family deeded (October 24, 1793) this mountain land for a church. In respect for ...

Chalmers's Collierville Raid

"... break the railroad behind him."

Early in November 1863, Union Gen. William T. Sherman was moving east to relieve the Union army at Chattanooga. Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ordered Gen. James R. Chalmers to "harass [Sherman's] rear and break ...