The Indian Boundary Line

Immediately north of this marker runs the Indian Boundary Line which was established on Aug 24, 1816 by a treaty between three U.S. commissioners and the Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawotami Indians to provide a corridor between Lake Michigan and the ...

Liberty Church Grounds

In May 1864, while on its way to Kennesaw and Atlanta Campaigns, the Army of the North seiged Liberty Church and grounds for use as a field hospital.

During the occupation numerous soldiers suffered the trauma of amputation. These body parts ...

Historic Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Erected 1860

Circuit Riders 1847-1853

Formally established 18 October 1853

1st Painted Church in Northwest Georgia

Only Church Where Union and Confederates Worshipped Together in Same Service During the War – April 1864

Union Field Hospital – May 1864

Restored 2002

Marker is on Liberty Road 0.1 ...

John Milton Bryan Simpson

May 30, 1903 - August 22, 1987

Born 1903 in Kissimmee, Florida. Graduated from University of Florida College of Law 1926. Practiced law, Jacksonville, Florida, 1926-39. Assistant State Attorney, Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida, 1933-39. Judge, Duval County Criminal Court ...

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

Twenty-Four Minutes of Thundering Hell On Iron Bottom Bay

Friday the 13th November 1942

By July 1942 Japan’s military juggernaut had invaded and occupied Korea, Manchuria, China, Hong Kong, Burma, Borneo, New Guinea, Rabaul, Truk, The Philippines, Aleutians, Marshalls, Carolines, ...

Talbot's Fort

Colonel George Talbot , cousin of Lord Baltimore, in defiance of William Penn's claim to Delaware,erected a fort nearby, 1684, on land of the Widow Ogle. Talbot dispossessed settlers between here and Iron Hill who refused to acknowledge Baltimore as ...

Imagine Life Here

Imagine being a Spanish soldier stationed here 350 years ago. Your job was to guard the San Juan Harbor entrance and the mouth of the Bayamon River from enemy attack. But year after year no enemy came. Did soldiers welcome ...

American Revolution Bicentennial Bell

From 1879 to 1929, this bell was rung to open court at the Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton. After the courthouse was dismantled in 1929, the bell was used as a dinner bell at the County poor farm at Gardner. ...

A Never Ending Challenge

Wind, rain, salt, sun, plants, people and time all do what foreign invaders never did—tear down the stone and mortar walls at Fort San Juan de la Cruz. Preventing a historic structure like El Canuelo from falling into decay is ...

Abraham Lincoln's memory of Knob Creek Farm

My earliest recollection. . .is of the Knob Creek place

Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Abraham Lincoln’s family moved here from his birthplace at Sinking Spring Farm in 1811, when the future president was just two years old. Lincoln’s earliest memories were of life ...