Swedish Central Methodist Church

Organized in 1873 by the Rev. Carl Charnquist, the Swedish Methodist Church built a sanctuary at Red River and 15th street. Led by the Rev. O.E. Olander, the congregation moved to this site in 1898 and occupied buildings of disbanded ...

Stuart Female Seminary

After 23 years as principal of Live Oak Female Seminary, Washington County, Rebecca K. Stuart Red (1826-1886) founded her own school in 1875. Her husband, G.C. Red, M.D., had a two-story stone dormitory – academic building erected on this site, ...

Dreka Building

1882

On this site in 1882 George A. Dreka built his 2-story department store that later was expanded to four floors to also hold the Carrolton Hotel. In the 1886 fire that consumed much of the town, blankets were hung from ...

14th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers

The 14. Regt. Connecticut Vols.

A.M. July 3, 1863

captured here from Confederate Sharp-

shooters the large barn of Wm. Bliss

and his dwelling house near and upon

retiring burned both buildings by order

of the Div. Commander.

Center of barn site.

Marker can be reached from Long ...

Cavalry Engagement

Near this place an engagement took place between Robertson’s brigade and the First Maine Cavalry, July 5, 1862.

Marker is on Lee Highway (U.S. 211) north of Main Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Leo Frank Lynching

Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. A highly controversial trial fueled by societal tensions ...

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church

St. Peter's Church has occupied this site since a small wooden church, begun in 1833, was built on land donated by Mr. Edward Hanrick. Rt. Rev. Michael Portier, D.D., first Catholic Bishop of Mobile, dedicated the first church on April ...

Home of James Edward Wheat

Located on a 2,952.2-acre tract of Republic of Texas land awarded in 1838 to Dr. Josiah Wheat, an early settler of Tyler County, and donor in 1847 of 200 acres for county seat, soon named Woodville.

Site for this residence ...

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

front left panel

Leroy Robert

(picture of Satchel)

July 7, 1906

June 8, 1982

front right panel

Lahoma Jean

(picture of Lahoma)

April 7, 1922

Sept. 22, 1986

center front panel

Paige

He began work carrying suitcases at Mobile ...

Daniel Bowman Mill at Silver Lake

Shenandoah Valley Mills

During the Civil War, the Daniel Bowman Mill occupied this site, grinding wheat brought here by Rockingham County farmers. The county was part of the prosperous agricultural region known as the “breadbasket of the Confederacy.” It was no ...