Mississippi State College for Women

The oldest state supported woman's college (1884) in the United States. It pioneered in adding vocational subjects to standard arts-science program.

Marker is at the intersection of College Street and 11th Street South, on the right when traveling east on College ...

Military Road

Built by War Department 1817-20, to connect New Orleans with Nashville. Suggested by & named for Gen. Andrew Jackson. Soon became an important commercial & telegraph route.

Marker is at the intersection of Military Road (Mississippi Route 12) and 11th Avenue ...

A Captured Trench

On the morning of June 1, 1864, Confederate soldiers of Thomas Clingman’s North Carolina brigade frantically dug this trench. They anticipated a Union assault later in the day. Around 6:00 p.m. Federal troops of the VI Corps moved into position ...

The Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Park & Wildlife Area

A Brief History

The Mission: Promote the Increased Use and Appreciation of the Unique Beauty of the Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Through Education and Recreation

The Marsh

The Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Park and Wildlife Area is the prominent feature in a ...

Mead’s Tavern

The site of the first

Saratoga County Board of

Supervisors’ meeting on

June 2, 1791.

Marker is on Hudson Avenue (U.S. 4) 0.1 miles north of Montgomery Place, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

James T. Harrison Home

Built by Thomas Blewett circa 1840 for daughter Regina and James Harrison, leading lawyer and Politician. Site of 1865 marriage and home of Stephen D. and Regina Harrison Lee.

Marker is at the intersection of 9th Street North and Military Road ...

Officers Quarters / Magazine

This structure was reconstructed in 1890 on the foundations of the original 1778 building. Long thought to be an officer’s barracks, recent information is now leading archaeologists to believe that it was actually the camp magazine which held the kegs ...

Keep Your Head Down

This shallow, winding depression is all that remains of a “zigzag” constructed by Union troops in June 1864. In trench warfare, soldiers dug ditches, called zigzags or covered-ways, to provide protection from sharpshooters as they moved from one line of ...

Mystery Shrouds Fort Mountain

The trail to the north of this site leads to the mysterious and prehistoric wall of loose rocks from which Fort Mountain takes its name. Many generations of explorers, archaeologists, geologists, historians and sight-seers have wondered about the identity of ...

Officers Quarters

The chimney remains mark the site of a company officer’s hut. The hut was a replica built in 1890 on the original site.

The company-level officer’s huts were located behind the enlisted hut line. There are several other firebacks of ...