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Support and Defend the Constitution

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Constitution Corner

The Constitution

“Our Political Salvation”

John Marshall

Revolutionary War Captain and

Chief Justice of ...

Union Block House

Block houses were built during the Civil War for use as defensive position to protect critical assets. The military bridge spanning the river located here was protected by a block house similar to the example pictured here.

Block houses were constructed ...

Sharp County Court House

The first court house in Sharp County was erected at Evening Shade in 1868. About 1890 another court house was built at Hardy, in the Northern end of the county. And since then the county has maintained two seats of ...

The Hickey Building

Owned by Patrick Hickey, the first Hickey Building was a collection of wooden structures that served as the M.M. Fuller law office, the printshop for the Ellis Headlight newspaper, Ramsey's Barber Shop and the A.J. Cromb Candy & Notions store. ...

Washington Reformed Presbyterian Church

This tablet is made to preserve the memory of pioneers, God fearing people from Scotland and Ireland who organized this church in 1841, as a place to meet together and worship

Andrew McCornack • Robert Shedden •

William Fraser •

George ...

Site where James Dickey Wrote Deliverance

Friends of Libraries U.S.A.

Literary Landmarks Register

University of

South Carolina

Site where

James Dickey

Wrote Deliverance and other

major works from 1969-1997

is designated a Literary Landmark

by Friends of Libraries U.S.A.

Friends of South Carolina Libraries

April 17, 1999

Courtesy hmdb.org

Henry Clay's Law Office

Erected 1803-04, this is the only office standing used by Clay; he occupied it from 1804 until ca. 1810. During these significant years in his career, Clay was elected to successive terms in legislature and to unexpired terms in the ...

Cloud-Climbing Railroad

In order to provide timber for the construction of his El Paso & Northeastern Railroad north of Alamagordo, Charles B. Eddy in 1898 built a spur into the Sacramento Mountains. The line operated as far as Cloudcroft until 1947. The ...

Fusselman Canyon

Below is Fusselman Canyon, which follows the Fusselman Canyon Fault, a major natural cut into the Franklin Mountains. For centuries it has served as a natural corridor for the movement of people, goods and livestock between the river valley to ...

Battle of Resace De La Palma

Resaca De La Palma

9 May 1846

Marker can be reached from Pitcher Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org