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Noon Under the Trees

July 22, 1864. Gen. McPerson & staff spent the forenoon in conference at Sherman's headquarters & inspecting Army of the Tenn. lines. Noon found them in an oak grove just S. of the R.R. where they were joined at luncheon ...

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Battle of Atlanta Began Here

July 22, 1864. Sweeny's 2nd. div., Dodge's 16th A.C. (US), having been held in reserve N. of the Ga. R.R. (Candler Park), was ordered to support the left wing of Blair's 17th Corps in East Atlanta. Marching via Clay Rd., ...

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Stony Point 9-11 Memorial

The Charles R. Lewis VFW Post

Is Proud

To Honor All the Victims Who

Perished on 9/11/01 in the WTC

Especially

The Five Victims

From Stony Point

Janet Alonso

Robert McCarthy

Luke Nee

Gerald O'Leary

Thomas Schoales

God Bless Them

In Heaven

Marker is at the intersection of South Liberty Drive (U.S. 9W) and ...

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Former Anti-Aircraft W.W. II Barracks

324-328

Talbart

Home of Historic Interest

Former anti-aircraft

W.W.II barracks, moved

from Concord in 1961.

Prior site of shared

water tank house for

neighboring two homes

Built 1930

Marker is on Talbart near Buckley Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Stages of Construction / Crescent Mounds

Stages of Construction

The earth walls were built over a period of approximately three hundred years and used for a couple of hundred years beyond that. American Indians used the shoulder bones of deer and elk, split elk antler, clam shell ...

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Birthplace of the Coca-Cola Bottle

World - famous trademark created in 1915 on this site at Root Glass Company, by Chapman J. Root, T. Clyde Edwards, Earl R. Dean, and Alexander Samuelson. Bottle design selected in national competition.

Marker is at the intersection of South Third ...

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Weller House

Probably the first structure on this site was Littner’s Exchange, which was later purchased and remodeled by the Bramer brothers. They operated the Orleans Hotel, Restaurant and Oyster Saloon until 1856 when Elias Weller bought the property and converted it ...

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Division Street School

[Side 'One']

Because of the growing number of African-American school-age children, the New Albany School Board authorized a new elementary school for them June 1884. It opened here 1885. An 1869 Indiana law had mandated education of colored children, with separate ...

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Brandon Homestead

In 1876 James H. Brandon, son of town

founder John Brandon and wife Martha,

built this large two-story frame home for

his wife Johanna and their seven

children. They loved entertaining guests

in their Folk Victorian southern mansion.

In 1901 ...

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Wheeler’s Cav. at Decatur

July 22, 1864. Coincident with Hardee's night march to attack Federal forces in E. Atlanta, Wheeler's cavalry (CS) was sent to seize McPherson's wagon trains parked N. of the Decatur public square, guarded by Sprague's 16th A.C. brigade & three ...

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