The San Andreas Fault

One of the most outstanding geological feautures in California, extending for over 650 miles from Point Arena, North of San Francisco, to south of San Corconio Pass. Between twenty and thirty miles deep and more than a mile wide in ...

Lanier County

This County created by Acts of the Legislature of Aug. 11, 1919 & Aug. 7, 1920 is named for Sidney Lanier, poet of Georgia. Lanier was born in Macon Feb. 3, 1842 and practiced law there with his father after ...

Timothy Barnard

Timothy Barnard, first white settler known to live on land now in Macon County, operated an Indian Trading Post on the west bank of the Flint River one mile southeast of here from pre-Revolutionary days until he died in 1820. ...

W.L. Saunders

Editor "Colonial Records of North Carolina," Confederate colonel, N.C. Secretary of State, 1879-91. His grave is four blocks east.

Marker is on West St. James Street near Main Street (Business U.S. 64).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Robert Earl Atkinson, Sr.

In Memory

Robert Earl Atkinson, Sr.

1899 - 1970

Co-founder of Dilmar Oil Company, Inc. in 1931 to sell Shell Oil products in Dillon and Marion Counties. In 1946 the Atkinson family became the sole owners of Dilmar. In 2010 ...

17th Connecticut Volunteers

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):17th Conn. Vol's

(Left):17th Conn. Infantry

2nd. Brigade, 1st. Division

11th. Corps.

(Right):This memorial is erected

by the

State of Connecticut

to

honor her brave sons.

(Back):

After a fierce contest with Early's Division at Barlow's Knoll on July 1st, marked by monument there, this Regiment formed ...

The Navy Memorial - from Bow to Stern

“...without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”

George Washington.

The United States Navy Memorial’s roots are as old as the Nation’s Capital itself . Major Peter C. L’Enfant envisioned ...

Babe's Longest Homer

At Tampa's Plant Field on April 4, 1919, "Babe" Ruth, playing for the Boston Red Sox against the N.Y. Giants, smacked a 587- foot home run that set a record in a pre-season game. 4,300 screaming fans saw the feat. ...

Quaker Meeting House

Panel one:

What is a Quaker?

“I went to many a priest to look for comfort, but found no comfort from them.” — George Fox recounting his spiritual journey in The Journal of George Fox.

George Fox’s frustration led to the establishment ...

American House Hotel

Site of

Located on this corner in 1853 was a sturdy, well proportioned 2-story hotel known as the American House. The proprietors, Marchant and Crocker, were proud of their hotel with its healthful location on “Piety Hill” opposite the Court H ...