Alexander Post No. 158 G.A.R. Civil War Memorial

In Memory of

Our Dead

Comrades.

They Stood Shoulder

to Shoulder

in Defence of

Our Country.

“With malice

toward none, with

charity for all,

with firmness

in the right.”

Erected by Alexander Post

No. 158 G.A.R.

Dep't of

Ohio 1884

United Spanish War Veterans

In Memoriam

United Spanish War Veterans

1898 - 1902

Courtesy hmdb.org

Near Disaster

On this hill on December 13, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee twice nearly met personal disaster. While firing its 39th round of the day, a 30-pounder Parrott Rifle (like the one in front of you) burst, sending chunks of ...

John Frederick Wolle

(1863 - 1933)

Organist, composer, and conductor. A major interpreter of J.S. Bach's music. He founded the Bethlehem Bach Festival and conducted the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, 1898-1905 and 1911-1932. Wolle was born and raised here in Main Hall.

Marker is on ...

Lindley Sign Post Forest

2,835 miles to Watson Lake’s

Signpost Forest

First sign placed by Carl K. Lindley of Danville, Illinois

1942

Presented to you by the Town of

Watson Lake

to mark the opening of Your

Signpost Forest in 2010

Marker is on East Harrison ...

Piqua's Early African-American Heritage

Side A: Piqua's Early African-American Heritage

African-American history began in Piqua with the settlement of Arthur Davis in 1818 and expanded with the settlement of the freed Randolph slaves of Virginia in 1846. African-American religious heritage in Piqua began with ...

Hickory Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery

(Front text)

This church, founded by 1869 with Rev. G.D. Kinard as its first pastor and 22 charter members, was admitted to the Barnwell Association that year. The congregation first met in a brush arbor, then built a log church ...

Drewry’s Bluff

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

John Smith recalled visiting the Arrohateck Indian capital during a May 1607 expedition led by Christopher Newport. The town was located on the northern shore of the James River opposite of here and was ...

Lee's Headquarters

The hill in front of you, once called Telegraph Hill but now known as Lee's Hill, served as General Robert E. Lee's headquarters during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Throughout the afternoon of December 13, 1862, Lee and his generals watched ...

19th Illinois Infantry

[Front - Top of Marker]:

This regiment formed the extreme left of Jonson's Division, 14th A.C. and gained the crest of the ridge at this point. Their colors being the first over the Confederate works south of Bragg's Headquarters.

This Monument erected ...