Turning the Trains

From 1856 to 1971, Folsom was a railroad town. For most of those years, the Folsom depot was the last stop from Sacramento.

Before the trains could return to Sacramento, the locomotives had to be turned around. Until 1913, they rotated ...

Bahia Espiritu Santo Mission

Menendez, Spanish Governor of Florida, after building fort at St. Augustine (1565) came to this site in 1567 and persuaded the Indian Chief Tocobago and his 1500 braves who lived here, to accept Christianity. Menendez erected a blockhouse for ...

Civil War Memorial

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Civil War Cemetery

On this site, 1861 - 1865, are buried several hundred Union and Confederate Soldiers. Killed in the Western Campaign. Lack of interest from distant families allowed deterioration of the wood grave markers ...

Oroville Carnegie Library

Built 1912

has been placed on

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

In 1911, Andrew Carnegie, Scottish industrialist, businessman, and major philanthropist, endowed upon City of Oroville $10,000 for the construction of a public library building. The building was ...

Portsmouth Naval Hospital

This was begun in 1827 and opened in 1830. The hospital was taxed to its capacity in the Great Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1855 which decimated Portsmouth and Norfolk. This hospital has cared for the sick and wounded of the ...

Old Federal Road

The road crossing east and west here is the Old Federal Road, western Georgia’s first vehicular thoroughfare. Beginning at Fort Hawkins (now Macon) it led across the Creek Indian Country to the Alabama River above Mobile. Permission to open the ...

Fort Morris

Named for Gov. R.H. Morris, and built by local settlers under the supervision of James Burd after Braddock’s defeat in July, 1755. Later garrisoned by provincial troops commanded by Hugh Mercer. The fort site, long marked by the soldiers’ well, ...

Etienne Veniard - Sieur de Bourgemont

Etienne Veniard - Sieur de Bourgemont

(front of marker in English)

Starting about 1680, the pressure of French traders moving up the Missouri from the Illinois country coincided with the commercial void created by the Pueblo Indian revolt in New ...

Revolutionary War Veteran

Patriot David Janes served the cause of gaining our nation's independence from England while a dedicated member of the military.

A descendant of William Bradford III, the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, David was born in 1762. In the spring ...

Captain Wylly Road

There were two Captain Wyllys in the history of Jekyll. It is believed the road was named for Charles Spalding Wylly (1836- 1923), Captain in the Confederate Army, 1st Georgia Regulars, a descendant of Clement Martin, who was granted on ...