Rural Electrification

In 1936 seventy-five percent of Pennsylvania farms had no electric service. During the next five years, with Federal support, 14 consumer-owned cooperatives were formed in this Commonwealth. Adams Electric Cooperative at Gettysburg, serving members in south-central Pennsylvania, was incorporated on ...

Houstoun Street/York Street

Houstoun Street

Named in honor of

John Houstoun

Governor of Georgia, 1778

First Mayor of Savannah. 1790

York Street

Laid out in 1733

Named in honor of

Duke Of York

Marker is at the intersection of Houstoun Street and York Street, on the right when ...

Zoarville Station Bridge

Fink Through Truss Bridge

The Zoarville Station Bridge is a rare survivor of the earliest period of iron bridge construction in the United States, an era when unprecedented railroad expansion gave American bridge builders an international reputation for innovation. German immigrant ...

Early Church

A pioneer log church was built under the ancient oak before 1731. A frame church replaced it in 1749. Present structure, 1839.

Marker is at the intersection of S Maple Avenue and E Oak Street, on the right when traveling north ...

The Extended Right

July 3, 1864. Concurrent with Johnston’s evacuation of his Kennesaw Mtn. line [CS], McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. [US] was shifted to the rt. of Sherman’s forces & via Sandtown rd. reached this vicinity -- joining Hascall’s div., 23d A.C. ...

Cow Cavalry

In Memory

(Front face)1863 - 1865

Erected by

Plant City Chapter #1931

United Daughters of the Confederacy

November 17, 2007

By 1863 the Confederate Army was suffering severe food shortages. Capt. John T. Lesley was commissioned to recruit from Ichepucksassa (Cork area of Plant City) a ...

Stagecoach Road

This road is one of the oldest in North Georgia. In the Indian days it connected Hightower Trail to the Etowah Mounds and Cherokee country with trails to Coweta Falls (Columbus), the Chief McIntosh home on the Chattahoochee River and ...

In Commemoration of the 94th and 110th Reg’s. O.V.I.

Mustered in the U.S. Service on these Historical Grounds.

[View of left side of marker]

Mustered in Aug. 23, 1862

Battles Participated in by

The 94th O.V.I. Commanded by

Col. Joseph W. Frizell.

Perryville, KY. October 8, 1862

Stone River, ...

The Whaling Bark Stafford

Absecon Lighthouse

Before construction of Absecon Lighthouse, many ships and many lives were lost off the coast of Absecon Island. Even though the beam from this light lessened these losses, other disasters plagued seagoing vessels.

The anchor you see here, weighing 1,805 ...

The Last Meetings of the Confederate Cabinet

The Last Meetings

of the

Confederate Cabinet

were held in this building

and the surrender of

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston

was Authorized from here

on April 24th. 1865

Marker is at the intersection of South Tryon Street and West 3rd Street on South Tryon Street.

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