Barret's Battery

Barret's Battery

C.S.A.

Commanded By

Isaac Lightner

Mortally Wounded

On Crest Of Hill

Nov. 25, 1863

Marker is at the intersection of North Crest Road and Lightfoot Mill Road, on the right when traveling north on North Crest Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Engagement at Davis Bridge

October 5, 1862

By late spring 1862, United States forces in the West threatened to cut the Confederacy in two, having captured both New Orleans and Memphis on the Mississippi River, and the vital railroad hub at Corinth, Mississippi, thereby severing ...

Big Flat – Big Bar

This plaque is between the two sites first mined in ’49. The rush came in 1850, when John Weaver & Co. ditched water from Lil’ Weaver Creek, now Big Bar Creek taking out $100,000 in gold at Big Flat. Elizabeth ...

Black Mountain College

Est. in 1933; closed 1956.

Experimental school with

emphasis on fine arts &

progressive education.

Campus was 3 mi. NW.

Marker is on W State Street (U.S. 70) near W College Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Webb Guano House

circa 1901

James Madison Dodd sold the property, which had been used for a livery stable, to R.J. & J.J. Webb. The Webbs built the first section of the building, called he Webb Guano House. The original structure was of concrete ...

Blackwater Draw

Blackwater Draw consists of several important archaeological sites that have yielded much information about the big-game hunting way of life. Some of the animals that were hunted, like the mammoth, are long extinct. Eastern New Mexico University's Blackwater Draw Museum ...

Weaverville Basin Gold Discovery Site

In the bend of Rich Gulch near its junction with Ash Hollow five miners worked the winter of 1849-50, with the use of a log hollowed out to make a rocker. The rich pocket yielded five pounds of gold per ...

Dedham Boat Club

Founded April 25, 1874

"For promoting the boating interests of the town"

Incorporated October 29th 1874

First boathouse built on Ames Street site in 1875.

Destroyed by lightning in July 1882.

Second boathouse built on this site in 1883,

...

Steel Oil Derrick / 1930's Cable-Tool Drilling Rig

This derrick is one of the last wood and steel oil derricks which once dotted the Butler County countryside. It was built in the mid-1940's and is 100 feet high.

Donated by: Larry Crawford

Donors: Joe Degan Pipe & Supply, Albert Hogoboom, ...

The Brown Bear

The Brown bear was originally cast in plaster by Eli Harvey. A fund raiser campaign to "put a hair on the bear" was led by Senator Theodore Francis Green Class of 1887, and resulted in the commission of a bronze ...