Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Who Were the Creek?

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

The park offers activities designed to commemorate the events that occurred here on March 27, 1814. The Battle of Horseshoe Bend ended the Creek Indian War and added nearly 23 million acres of ...

250th Anniversary of the Bering- Chirikov Expedition

1741-1991

Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the Bering-Chirikov Expedition

May the wheel of change forever turn with peace, justice and opportunity

White-McCarthy Lumber and Hardware Company

1914

This single-story commercial building includes a partial basement, wide-open interior spaces, and a tall, carefully detailed, Main Street store front of exposed, buff-colored, pressed brick. The other walls are composed of common red brick. A metal surface covers the flat, ...

G. & D. Hatch Mercantile

1926-1932

George P. Hatch married Dora Palmer, A. Z.'s daughter, and later they began an ice cream parlor in A.Z.'s store. When A. Z. Died, they bought out Dora's siblings. Dora's store experience plus George's business college background brought great ...

Johnstown Cemetery / War Veterans

Side A: Johnstown Cemetery

In 1810, Dr. Oliver Bigelow from Cayuga County, New York, purchased a 4,000-acre tract of land in Monroe Township from John Brown of Boone County, Kentucky, for the sum of $10,000. President John Adams had deeded the ...

A.Z. Palmer and Sons

1895-1927 (Building erected in 1914)

A.Z. Palmer was one of the original settlers of Snowflake and established the first store there with Mark Kartchner, a brother-in-law. In 1895 he purchased the store located on this site and thereafter became the pre-eminent ...

Cherokee Boundary (1767)

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In 1766-67 S.C. & N.C. negotiated with the Cherokee to establish a boundary between Indian land to the west and new settlement to the east. This north-south line ran past this point to N.C. and on to Va. In S.C. ...

C. G. Powell People's Store

Town founder Levi Ruggles built a store on this site in 1876. In 1882, it became Peter Will's Brewery. It was demolished for the construction, in 1915, of the C. G. Powell People's Store, a single-story, commercial building. Prominent Phoenix ...

"Colonial Churchyard"

Graves of Confederate general Junius Daniel, editor Abraham Hodge, U.S. District Judge John Sitgreaves, are 1 bl. N.E.

Marker is at the intersection of St. David Street (Business U.S. 301) and King Street, on the right when traveling east on St. ...

William Mears Dawes Gristmill

This grindstone from the farm of William Mears Dawes Gristmill built 1840 on Raccoon Creek one mile west. Stone quarried by Ephraim Cutler on Ohio River, brought here on steamboat and cart by Henry Dawes, grandfather of Beman Gates Dawes, ...