Confederate Breastworks Interpretive Trail

You are standing in the middle of what was once Fort Edward Johnson. Confederate soldiers built this fort in 1862 under the command of Brigadier general Edward Johnson, a career officer from Virginia.

Look to your right, and then left across ...

Denier & Richmond General Merchandise Store

Built in 1890, the store originally had unplastered adobe walls, a gabled roof, and a large, commercial-style glass display front. After Denier & Richmond, the building housed the C.R. Michea Store from 1897 to 1907, and then the Michea-Arballo Store. ...

Interstate and Defense Highways

The first US Army Transcontinental Motor Convoy departed Washington DC for San Francisco on July 7, 1919, to survey roads and test vehicles for military purposes. On the second day, the convoy was forced to detour around a wooden covered ...

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

[Front]:

The first church built by African Americans at Fort Motte grew out of services held by slaves at nearby Bellville, Goshen, Lang Syne, and Oakland plantations. It was formally organized in 1867 by Caleb Bartley, Israel Cheeseborough, Cudjo

Cunningham, Anderson ...

Statue of Abraham Lincoln

Let man be free.

Marker is at the intersection of Library Street and Farmer Street on Library Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

“The Shenandoah Mountain Pass is grand indeed…”

As “Stonewall” Jackson’s Army passed through the gap on their way down to McDowell, Virginia one soldier wrote:

Tuesday 13th May 1862

I have been struck with the wild & mountain scenery. The Shenandoah Mt. Pass is grand indeed, you asend to ...

Church of the Annunciation

Dedicated in 1863. This is the oldest Catholic Church in NE Miss. It once served a parish that included Corinth & Meridian. The design for the Gothic structure was conceived by Fr. J. B. Mouton, the first pastor.

Marker is on ...

Brownlee Family Cemetery - 1825

Estab. in 1825 on the corner of a 1400 acre plantation owned by James Brownlee, Sr. & his wife Mary. Three brothers who lost their lives in the service of the Confederate States of America lie buried here.

Marker is at ...

John B. Hohenstein, Sr.

Dedicated in memory of

John B. Hohenstein, Sr.

Partner of Hohenstein Shipping Company,

Secretary and Treasurer of Savannah Pilotage

Commission, who prominently served the

maritime industry of Savannah from 1919

until his death, April 20, 1961

Marker is at the intersection of Houston Street and E. St ...

First Michigan Sharpshooters

First Michigan Sharpshooters.

[There follows a list of the regiment's officers.] The regiment was organized during the winter of 1862 and 1863 at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Disbanded at Jackson, Michigan, August 7th, 1865. The entire enrollment of the regiment that saw ...