Maj. William C. Preston C.S.A

Commanding Artillery Battalion attached to Alexander P. Stewart’s Corps [CS] - killed in action while supervising placement of two sections of Selden’s Ala. Battery, Lt. Chas. W. Lovelace, commanding, near the Embry House, July 20th, 1864, during the Battle of ...

St. John Church

German settlers who came to Richland community in the 1860s worshiped originally in private homes. Nineteen charter members, under leadership of the Rev. G. Haehnelt, organized the St. John German Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1878. Church land was given for ...

Freedom Road

The route traveled by the 52 American hostages from Stewart Airport to West Point after their release from captivity in Iran January 25, 1981.

Marker is on Temple Hill Road (New York Route 300), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy ...

Court Square Fountain

1885

Placed by the City over Artesian Basin and crowned by Hebe, Goddess of Youth and Cup-bearer to the Gods. Fountain was cast by J.L. Mott Iron Works of New York. Restored by Robinson Iron of Alexander City in 1984 during ...

Saint Edward’s University Main Building

Erected in 1888. Rebuilt after fire in 1903. Nicholas J. Clayton, master architect, designed both building in Gothic revival style.

Serves institution founded in 1873 by congregation of Holy Cross, as male catholic school. First pupils were local farm boys. In ...

Battle of Port Royal

A decisive battle in the Civil War took

place here on Nov. 7, 1861, when 18

Union warships with about 55 supporting

craft led by Adm. S.E. DuPont bombarded

for 4½ hours the Confederate forces

in Fort Walker on this shore and Fort

Beauregard on the ...

Thorstrand

The Magnus Swenson Estate

These two Mediterranean Revival mansions were designed for Magnus and Annie Swenson and their daughter Mary North by Madison architects Law and Law. Swenson was a Norwegian immigrant who became an internationally famous inventor and humanitarian. Among ...

Site of Fort Defiance

1794

Rendezvous of followers of General Elijah Clarke in the Trans-Oconee Country.

Marker is at the intersection of South Jefferson Street and East Hancock Street (Georgia Route 22/24), in the median on South Jefferson Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

German Presbyterian Church

This bell was hung in 1896 in the German Presbyterian Church and for 70 years summoned the community to worship at the south-east corner of Park Avenue and State Street. In 1966 the congregation united with the Church on the ...

Saint David’s Episcopal Church

Located in pioneer Austin at the edge of town on a site never used for a secular building. At first called “Church of the Epiphany.” Cornerstone laid on April 7, 1853, with impressive ceremonies for the capital city’s first tone ...