Battle of Perryville

October 8, 1862

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The battle was brought on by Confederate Lieut. Gen. Braxton Bragg as a delaying action to insure safe withdrawal of a huge wagon train of supplies and to enable him to effect a junction with the army ...

The Birth Place of the Railroads

“The Docks” area is significant in that California’s first railroad began here. Railroads have directly influenced the development of the southern waterfront for more than 100 years. The Sacramento Valley Rail Road, the pioneer steam line in California, was built ...

American Legion Post 168 Veterans Memorial

In Memory of

All American Veterans

Lest We Forget

Courtesy hmdb.org

Creosote Works

The West Pascagoula Creosote Works, at this site, was the first continuously operated creosote treatment plant in the nation. Established in 1874 to protect railroad bridge timbers against rot and the toredo worm, the plant was open until 1978. Thousands ...

Swampscott Revolutionary War Honor Roll

Revolutionary War

Honor Roll 1775 – 1783

Burrill, Alden • Burrill, Ebenezer • Burrill, John A. • Burrill, John M. • Burrill, Samuel • Burrill, Theophilus • Clark, Edmund • Ingalls, Benjamin • Ingalls, Jacob • Ingalls, John • Ingalls, Joseph • ...

The British General

In September 1778, British commanders sent huge foraging parties up both sides of the Hudson River, stripping the local farms of their autumn harvest and livestock. Washington’s forces in the area were seriously outnumbered, but he sent small bodies of ...

Swampscott Desert Shield - Desert Storm Monument

Desert Shield Desert Storm

2 August 1990 30 November 1995

Berry Jr., Robert R. • Cassidy, Margaret M. • Losano, Joseph A. • DiPietro, David C. • Tibbetts, Paul W. • Cavallaro, Darren R. • Knowles, Douglas B. • Pelletier, Steven ...

First Baptist Church of Eufaula

Irwinton Baptist Church was constituted on June 24, 1837. The name of the town changed to Eufaula in 1843, and consequently the name of the church became Eufaula Baptist Church. The church assumed its third name in 1869 when it ...

Jordan Home

2834 Highland Avenue

Dr. Mortimer Harvie Jordan and his wife, Florence E. Mudd, constructed their home between 1906 and 1908. After service in the Confederate army, Jordan studied medicine in Cincinnati and New York (under Alabama's famous gynecologist, Dr. J. Marion ...

Calvary Episcopal Church

Built in 1902, the Calvary Episcopal Church is one of the oldest still in use in the county, serving many farmers, laborers, and professionals along the Cotton Highway for over a century. The bell tower and main entrance formerly resided ...